Dear all,
Time seriously just gets faster and faster! I think it is
running faster than me and sister Baxter when we exercise in the morning! I
love being a missionary and it feels like a dream come true to just be here and
work and serve the Lord by talking to others and helping them come closer to
Christ. It really is the easiest and yet also the hardest thing I have ever
done. People seem to be so amazed that we can speak Czech and be here but they
just do not understand how much to Lord is helping us. He truly is by our side
each and every day!
We loved being able to spend time with the sister in Plzen
and they are doing great, getting adjusted to being in a brand new city and
sister Miller has been such a great help to sister Andersen. She really lifts
her spirit and encourages her.
I loved being back in a city that had trams and being able
to talk to people so easily as we traveled to places. Sister Andersen and I
also tried to visit one of their investigators who is married to a member and
they live in a little village and we got off at the wrong bus stop (the driver
had told us wrong) and we ended up walking through villages to get to the right
place, only coming an hour and a half late! But the family were happy to see us
there and they were surprised that they were so important to us. I think it
helped them gain our trust very quickly. Petra, the investigator asked why she
wasn't baptised yet and it was great!! Such a miracle! The sister there are
already seeing so many miracles happen and we were happy to hear that they are
already having success with some of the people we meet with them on the
streets. One of them even brought their friend!
Pardubice is doing great, too! Desmond prayed about his
baptismal date since we wanted him to have the full responsibility. He prayed
and feels like the 15th of October is a great date so we will help him to be as
prepared as possible for that. We had a really great lesson with him this week
when we simply read out of the book of Mormon with him, reading Moroni 6 and focusing
on sacrament meeting. It was very spiritual and we all left the lesson feeling
uplifted and inspired. we hope the missionaries will feel the same way this
week after our training about faith. Sister Baxter and I are focusing on making
our lessons short but powerful since our time is so precious and so far it is
going great.
This week we really saw how diligence makes a big difference
and I feel like that is what Elder Uchtdorf focused a lot of in his talk at the
women's conference this past weekend. We got back from a long day of traveling
on Friday and were tired but decided to go out and talk to people about the gospel
before we had a lesson with Lucia and her darling kids. As we simply talked to
people around us we were able to teach a young man from Romania all about the Book of Mormon, using the pictures and sharing our testimony and now we are
going to be teaching him even more! It was a miracle and a blessing from being
diligent, despite challenges.
I know that this work is true! I live it and love it!
s laskou,
sestra Manners
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