Day 263, Demz da breaks

This week has just been crazy, last week of the transfer and we were trying to pack so many lessons in because i was leaving  so we had a way crazy time, i don't have my planner here becuase i had to make a new one for my new area but it was a pretty good week. on monday we went to Sternberk, didn't spell that right but i don't want to have to keep changing my keyboard, then we came back had 2 lessons

on tuesday we taught some more had a fun english class i had a lot of people come  got some gifts at the end haha one of my english students gave me alcholic chocolate. then i packed that night anticipating my move.
wednesday was less crazy  but we talked to some sick people on the park scene had a lesson with my favorite investigator for the last time.

thursday was awesome, went to Prostejov (spelling again) had  the best lunch thing ever with an elderly sister, than we went to a blind member's house and walked with him to the bus stop it's crazy how good he can get around. i'm saying crazy a lot. then came back to Olomouc had game night went home tired wrote some letters to some members

Friday woke up tired. tired, but still kickin. (i don't really read my blog but when i spell words like this "kickin" it's because that's the way i want it to be read not kicking it doesn't have the same effect.) but then we had some good times with some people who we met on wednesday had 2 great lessons in the morning had some successful finding in the afternoon.

Saturday is a special day, it's a day we get ready for Sunday. i can't remember anything about this day because  got my new area assignment. started fasting.

Sunday: This was the best day for me. so i woke up 6:30 just like everyday, went to church at 7:40 got there, had a meeting with the branch president and 1st counselor, and then we had the best sacrament i've ever had in my life. It was fast and testimony meeting, i'm getting all emotional just writing about it, but i asked my branch president to ask an investigator of mine give the opening prayer, and of course she did because she's amazing. and it was the best prayer i've ever heard. and then after blessing the sacrament i went and sat down next to her. the meeting went well, there was some awesome testimonies one of my favorites was a girl that was baptized about a year ago it was so good.  While the meeting was going on i wrote a little note to the girl i was sitting by (my investigator) asking her to bear her testimony, and she's like no, you should you're leaving, and i don't want to cry. but i was like, neither do i and then i proceded to make a deal with her that i would if she did.  so after thinking about it she kept looking for a time to get up and then in my head i was like oh crap she's going to so now i have to. but then she got up and she bore the most fantastic testimony i have ever heard. ever. i lost it. and then now it's my turn. and i have to get up already crying but that was the deal, and i'm good for my word.  so i struggled not to cry through my testimony, while trying to speak czech, it was hard.  now i can't even remember what was said but i know that it was so amazing and the girls that stood up and bore their testimonies are just so so cool. I Love them both so much! I'm going to miss them so much now that i'm not in Olomouc but hej, demz da breaks.  The rest of the day went well, we delivered brownies to people, our oven burned them though. I got some amazing gifts from people. then another highlight of the day, last phone call to an investigator,, and we both cried... if anyone just sang t-swift in their head they're my kind of people. but it was a good day probably the best of my mission so far, I'm going to miss the people of olomouc. it's my favorite city in the world. But we'll make it good here. but, no looking back, because "those who put their hand to the plow and look back are not fit for the Kingdom of God." Goodbye Olomouc. See ya latter.

-Starší Petersen

Have a Little Faith, Elder

Day 70

Ok, first things first, your emails... K so i have an hour and a half of email time and so i read all of your emails and then i send emails but it takes forever to read them all.  They were all enjoyable but wow like, all of them were the same. like, you all told me about conference weekend and about tiffany and sammi and john and so yeah maybe try and coordinate what your telling me hahah. but they were all good.

     Now for your questions and things.  All - "O" - Moats. Olomouc.

     The flight was long, I didn't watch a movie because i could see everyone else's tv's and they weren't so i felt like i shouldn't, although i did intently watch all of the screens around me, so i watched oblivion, and superman, someone in front of me watched juno twice..., i watched the call, and star trek 2 it was a good flight. superman was the best because it had so much fighting and i got the story without the sound, also oblivion.  The plane we were on was so nice, also we were the first people to use it. it was hecka nice, the first class... you wouldn't even believe.
     the food here is good and cheap you can eat for like 3 dollars a good meal, so far, i've had fried cheese (it's a thing), trite (sheep's stomach soup) it was good,  They have this stuff called Kofola and it's the communist version of coka-cola and it tastes like black liqurishe, all of the missionaries love it, it's alright, kinda gross but everyone says i'll love it.  the first czech meal i had was Svíčková, it's like bread and soup and meat, it's awesome, umm  they have this cereal here that is so good, it's basically like they took granola and then just put chocolate in it haha it's way good. umm other than that we've just made a lot of pasta and rice.
   
    My companion is way cool, he's Italian and he's really funny.  He's also amazed when i tell him about Utah and America. like, how if you stand on the point of the mountain you can see 6 temples, and how if you walk from my house in any direction you can get to a church in like 10 mins, his mind was blown.  He's way impressed by me though, first of all because i've corrected some of the older missionaries on there czech grammar.  haha yeah, secondly that I understand what's going on in a lesson. but he was so impressed, like 20 mins after we were companions we went over to the metro and while we were switching trains I saw this guy wearing my tennis shoes, so i'm all like "Mam rad Vas boty, Vy play tennis?" and then he's like "oh yeah i do", in like broken english because he could tell i wasn't czech. and then I started talking to him a bit more about why he was here and stuff and then he asked us why we were here and then my companion took over because the guy was having a hard time in english. Any way so we get off the subway and we're walking to the train and the guy is standing looking at the train schedule board. So i take out this prauge pass along card that i had for this type of situation. and give it to him and tell him if he has any more questions that he can look up on the internet or call the missionaries here in Prague.  so he was like yeah ok.  Any way my trainer was just like blown away that i did that before him and stuff he's like told all of the missionaries the zone leader, the mission president. yeah so that was good i guess.  But yeah he's cool. he's a little bit afraid to set to high of goals though, like today we were setting goals on how many of our investigators we could baptize this transfer and he was like 1 maybe 2 and i sat there for a second thinking about it and i'm like, 4 and he's like (Italian accent) "eleder we have to set goals tat we can obtain 4 is way to high"  yeah we argued about that for like 15 mins, but well not like an angry argument, but more like a discussion and eventually i won by using the scriptures. haha, and i was all like, in the book of mormon they just went and stood in the middle of the city and said, You all need to be baptized! and then that day they had 8000 baptisms haha and then i was like we have 9 weeks to baptize 4 people i think we can do it.  and then he's like "I don't know how we can dooo it"  and i was like "faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things, Have a little faith elder" yeah then he's like ok we can do 4 and I was all like how bout 5! and he's like, no.

    We don't get to watch conference till this Sunday. because they need to translate it.
    In the Czech republic there is no stake so therefore no wards. My branch is kinda small but it's fine. the building is above a bakery and a "vit pit" umm yeah it's pretty good.
     So this was a long email, and i don't have anymore time, i have stuff to do but yeah it's awesome here. oh and yeah i did place a book of mormon in heathrow.  well i'll tell you more later.  ttfn glhf ggwp love yall,
   
Laskoše,
Spencer