FAMILY. sorry it has been so long. On our pday we went to Brno for training. Sounds like you've heard, I am in Pardubice! I love it here. The people are amazing and yes they are known for their gingerbread. its funny most the emails i got today said something about gingerbread. its pretty good, not amazing. Sestra Frampton and I went into a little gingerbread store and the old lady who worked their defied all the rules of being an old lady working in a gingerbread store. She was not nice.
So some crazy stuff went down since my last email so I will fill in. Our visas didn't get here, I got reassigned to Independence Missouri, our visas came, our flight got cancelled, we spent the day in the airport, we got a flight, and made it to Prague pretty late. Man were we tired but we made it and its a miracle!
That first night in Prague we went to McDonalds and President McConkie gave us each some money to go buy some dinner. He told us what to say and everything and I so i went up and asked for a "number 4" which were the chicken nuggs, but i guess they don't say that here. so they just gave me 4 cheeseburgers it was pretty funny. i guess the word for number sounds like cheeseburger.. we all had a good laugh about it.
My companions name is sister Frampton. She is awesome. i seriously respect trainers.. its got to be hard to put up with us greenies. We are having a good time here in Pardubice. We are the only missionaries here- the rest of district is in Hradec Králové where we take the train to go to church everysunday. Love my district.We went to Brno together and played czech Bang! One of the elders looks and acts just like alex its crazy. I played hockey with his older brother Tim at BYU last year too. The senior couple in our district are the Bells. They are the best. We had lunch with them on Sunday after church. love them
So, pardubice. Loving it. The people here are amazing. čeněk is our favorite. He got baptized 2 weeks ago so before I got here. Probably the most solid member I've ever met. He comes to English, family history everything. If all else fails čeněk is there. He's awesome. He's trying to get ready to go on a mission so we have him teach us a lot of the lessons to practice. Sestra Kunčikova is a member here. She reminds me of Grandma Holland. She sent us away with half her pantry and a quarter of her fridge. It was awesome. Sestra Knižková is another lady I met this week. We drove out with Bells becuase she lives out of the city. She's not super active right now but just the sweetest lady. Simona and Jarda, that was a funny experience. They live in a serious dump.. my companion didn't even prepare me for what I was about to see. They closed all there doors to their kitchen and basically hotboxed us for a good 45 minutes. My lungs were about to collapse. The funniest part was when she gave us tea, i was going to follow my companions lead- so i watched her carefully to see if she would drink it.. they don't have running water in their house so i wasn't sure if it was in the clear to drink. so she doesn't touch her tea the whole lesson and right before we are about to say the prayer and leave I look over and she had just chugged it down. I said a little prayer and chugged that nasty liquid best i could. Definitely wasn't tea. we have another lesson with them tomorrow i'm looking forward too. Another funny story this week when contacting we told a man we were missionaries for the church of jesus christ. He said "I am a missionary too, but for satan." we tried to be serious at the time but we were laughing pretty hard after.
Love this country. It's awesome.
That's I'll I've got today. Just know I'm doing well. Happy as a clam.
Happy Birthday Rachael!! Have a good one!
Love,
Sestra Holland
train to brno
lunch at the bells
when sister holland gets a hold of dinner.. i ate the whole block of cheese in one night.. SO GOOD
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