Čus kaktus!
Alright so not a lot went down this week. We were in our area all week though which is always good.
We went to lunch at a babička's house. I love those types of lunches. As usual, she fed us SO much food. A bowl of soup followed by SIX knedlíky (covered in sugar).
We've been experimenting with our English class, and we had a really good spiritual thought for that this week. They were all pretty engaged and curious. I'm excited to see where we take it. One of our English students took us on a tour of Plzeň. There's so much history here. Apparently there was a river that ran through the city, but they just decided to...move the river? I don't know how, but now it's in a different spot. Also the city mascot is a camel, because a long time ago there was a fort built around Plzeň and someone was trying to break in, so they stole their camels. Now there's a camel in the city crest.
Our bishop bought spikeball for us to use. We posted about it on a sport page on Facebook and some dude told us that they were having a slacklining event and we could bring the spikeball and play with them. We were a little nervous about it, but it ended up being way fun, and we met some super chill people. Normal and natural is the way to go when it comes to missionary work.
We had our last district council with Starší Bennett in our district. Because of visa stuff, he can only be in the country for 90 days, so he had to move back to Slovakia. So once again my district changed halfway through the transfer haha. I'm way sad about it, but I'm also excited for my new district.
We had a super good lesson with one of our investigators about the Book of Mormon. We had a member teach with us, and that was super helpful. He was able to answer a lot of our investigator's questions. He (our investigator) told us we inspired him to read the Book of Mormon. Let's go! I can't wait for him to start studying it.
Our landlady was babysitting her grandson, and they had a 8 week puppy with them as well. So we got to play with the puppy, and it seriously made my whole day. Such a tender mercy.
We met up with some members to do Come Follow, Me, but it ended up being a super long walk in a random part of the city that ended in us just walking around a random cemetery. I have zero clue how we ended up there, but it was cool.
We gave talks in church on Sunday. This time around was way better than last time. It's kinda cool to see my Czech improve, even if it's just a little bit.
Today we went to Karlovy Vary, a spa town about an hour away. It's super pretty, but it's also 100% a tourist city, so it was really weird. I just felt like I was walking around an amusement park. The architecture was super cool though.
Spiritual Thought:
So there's a lot that I've been thinking about this week that I could mention, but I'm just gonna go with one of them. I was watching a devotional by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, and he said something that has become my new motto:
"Focus on what you can do, not on what you can't."
It was so good that he repeated it twice. But seriously so good. It applies to everything. If you feel like you don't have the right skills for something, just focus on what you do have. If you feel like you're missing out on something, just focus on what you can do/do have. If you feel like you aren't doing enough, just focus on what you are doing, not on what you aren't. It's just such a good phrase to do anything by.
Mám vás ráda! Do a lot of fun things this week!
Sestra Lewis
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