Ahoj!
Jak se máte?! The weeks just keep going by faster and faster. Somehow we're already halfway through the transfer. Not sure how that happened, but we're rolling with it. This week was a pretty solid one. A lot of random stuff happened.
We found out a few weeks ago that one of our English students teaches a pottery class. We freaked out and told him we would love to come to it, but instead he decided to give us a private pottery class. So he dropped off a huge slab of clay and the other day before English he thought us all how to make cups and bowls and rings. It was so chill. Czechs are the best.
All the districts were told to take district pictures for the Christmas card, and Sis. Scott made sure our district went all out haha. She color coordinated everyone, got a photographer in the ward to come with us, and we went and had a photo shoot around the main náměstí in Brno haha. The pictures turned out so good, and it was so fun to just hang out with the district for an hour.
I learned how to start a fight in Facebook this week. Step 1: Ask if anyone has any service opportunities. Step 2: That's it. There is no step 2. People are ridiculous. This week I posted on one of the community Brno pages asking if anyone had any service opportunities for us. Apparently that was a bad idea cause 3 days and over 100 comments later, and people are still fighting on that post haha. There's people bashing us and people defending us. It's insane. That's been our main source of entertainment all week. We did get some cool opportunities out of it though. One lady messaged me saying she was going insane that morning thinking about how much help she needs getting her house organized. She said she was at the end of the rope and had no idea what to do. Our post was just what she needed. We're going over to help her in a week. We're excited.
This week they had the primary program. As always it was so good and so entertaining haha. There are these kids in the ward from Hungary, so we had Czech, English, and Hungarian going on during the program. The kids did so good. Sometimes I miss playing piano for primary. It's one of the best callings you can have.
Remember a few weeks ago when I mentioned our friend who told us we showed her what true friends can be? Well this week she officially became an investigator!!! Aw man we're so dang stoked. She prayed for the first time this week and says she feels like her prayer was answered. She has such a strong desire to believe in God, and we're so excited to help her do that. I can't wait to see how much she progresses. She's so dang awesome.
Spiritual Though Time:
As I was reading in the Book of Mormon this week, I got to 3 Nephi 11 where Christ visits the Americas, and something stood out to me. Verses 13-15 says:
13 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto them saying:
14 Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.
15 And it came to pass that the multitude went forth, and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet; and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a surety and did bear record, that it was he, of whom it was written by the prophets, that should come.
What I love about this is that Christ didn't just have 2 or 3 people come up and feel the prints in his hands and feet and then have them go tell everyone else that it really was Him. He had every single person, one by one, come up to him so that they could gain a witness for themselves. He wanted each person to have the experience of gaining their own witness. As members of the church, we have each witnessed for ourselves and gained our own testimony of Jesus Christ. We do our best to share that with others, but ultimately we don't want people to just take our word for it. Christ wants each person to witness for themselves that He lives and that this is His Gospel. So as missionaries and as members of the church, we should be doing our best to not only tell people about Jesus, but to help them receive their own witness that He's real and that He's our Savior. Christ is all about doing things one on one. He wants an individual relationship with every one of us. He wants everyone to come to Him and receive their own witness that He is "the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and [has] been slain for the sins of the world." I'm so grateful for the Savior and for His sacrifice for each of us. He's there for us. He's right there with us during the good and the bad. He's our older brother, and He loves us. I hope everyone of you receives your own witness that He lives and He really is our Savior.
I hope you all had the best week and that this week is even better! You all are great and I'm so grateful for all of your support!
Sestra Lewis
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