Week 52

Ahoj ahoj,

Crazy week - they sure go by fast when you get even busiER. Didn't think it was possible but it happened. Biggest thing this week was probably our Exchange in Trencin, Slovakia. We took the bus there - before we crossed the border we called the sisters there and told them what time we will get in. They asked if we wanted them to wait for us at the bus stop - i had been their once before so i told them we'd call them if we needed them and they could do their planning like usual. So we get there and we failed to realize that our phones don't work in Slovakia .. blbost! When we got off it was dark and I didn't know where we were, but we asked an old lady how to get to the center and we walked rovně straight to their apartment - it was a miracle. So then we had an awesome Exchange with the slovak sisters. I still love going to Slovakia.. its different enough that if you tuned out you would be like hey thats a totally different language, but you tune in and understand. I was with Sister Ross. She's been in the country for 2 weeks now and is killing it. They made us halušky and we were on our way. We also had kebabs which are illegal in america because they violate health codes. On the way back there was a delay so we missed our second bus so we stayed in Brno for the night. We were walking underground below the train station -- chain smokers coughing, trash and graffiti and vit pits everywhere, and i got a little místy and said to sister white .. THIS IS MY HOME! Missed that brno. Then on Saturday we went straight to the farm where we do service from the train - 2 days without a shower and wearing whatever we had that would fly for service.. it was an epic entry. Mirek looked at us and was like what in the world happened to you to in his hick-like czech. he's cool. And then we ate a ton of food and went back to work. That night sister white talked to someone on the bus who came to church the next day - we went on a walk with her sunday night and gave her a book of mormon. she is top notch. also we are teaching a mom Pani Gabcova who is doing awesome. We visited her yesterday as well and she is loving it all - Today we went to Telč and i had probably the best svickova ive ever had and then we went with sister daskova to look for some edible mushrooms in the forest. it was nice to get fresh air but unfortunely no mushrooms. better luck next time. 

Mám vás moc ráda!

S láskou,

Sestra Holland

Week 51

Hello Family!

This week in a nutshell - We started out with the best English class I've ever had - and thats hard to compare because in České Budějovice its just a bunch of old men giving us advice about finding true love and it is so cute it just makes you want to cry. But this week the most amazing thing happened - We shared our little 5 minute spiritual thought at the end and everyone got WAY into it. So we had a giant missionary discussion and when everyone left they were giving us requests about what "duchovni téma" we could talk about next week. Then we have been helping this lady who hasn't been to church in a long time with her family history - she is so into it! And the cutest thing ever. She always has food waiting for us when we get her, and her appartment is something out of country living magazine. She calls us her zlatíčky - little gold things. - its cuter than it sounds. We worked on the farm again at Mireks - this week we cleaned out all the rabbit dung out of their cages. I swear I havent smelled such a retched smell in all my life. and they fed us an ostrich egg because they have a pet ostrich. I was planning escape routes to hurl. But i kept it down and we got rid of all that rabbit dung.. SUCCESS! And then we had some homemade knedliky a omáčku :) no matter how sick i feel i can down that stuff no problém. Other news.. Im piano player girl at sacrament meeting. which ive done before but not regularly and im running out of songs i can play- which is like 4.

As far as teaching goes, this week was a little dissapointing at first. Sestra White and I were walking to sports night on Thursday and we were like - hey, whats going on? We are literally talking to everyone we see. Buses, grocery stores, trains, everywhere. And we are finding great people, but something always happens - they cant meet for whatever reason. So we were walking and talking - and we decided we were on the edge - someone super awesome was coming and then I elbowed sister white - i was like hey sestro, its him. So we stopped this man and he talked about how he believes in God but he knows nothing about him and would like to listen to our message. Literally golden. So we exchanged contacts and set up a lesson. And then the rest of the week we have been running into all these people we've talked to before. 

One lady in particular we met with in her home. Pani Gábčová. She has 5 kids or so and she is really excited about meeting with us. She's looking for things in her life and she's going to find it real soon! Really exciting stuff. Her daughter is also really curious, she's about 9 or 10. 

Happy Labor Day everyone! I had no idea but that's ok! 

Mám vás ráda! 

S lákou,

Sestra Holland