"I am speaking Czech!" October 5 2015

So yeah, I'm having an interesting time lately, and I'll be telling more about what's been happening lately: So this last week we had our first official Training in Brno, a larger city where Elder Boyce and I went to by "auto bus (awtoh boos)" and we met with President McConkie and his wife and they spoke to us, and we met up with some friends from the MTC and such, it was awesome. It was only our zone though, so only about 20 missionaries at the meeting. After training I was blown away to see how scattered my notes were, I'll never be able to read them in the same order I wrote them... but whatever, it's the info that's there that I wanted. After training, our Zone Leaders, Elder Britner, and Elder Kliner came back to Zlin with Elder Boyce and I on Exchanges, so that we could update our mission on the progress in Zlin, as well as get our monthly or whatever interview with our zone leaders. It went well. I was assigned to be with Elder Kliner and we worked well together. When we first arrived in Zlin after coming back from Brno, the 4 of us went to our church building and grabbed a table and some Book of Mormon's and brochures and such and walked out onto the Namesti. The Zone leaders had come to Zlin with a plan in mind and told us, "we're going to get 10 Other Lessons today!" Elder Boyce and I were Shocked... we hardly ever get more than 3, or maybe 4 Other Lessons in a day, and here they were telling us that we were going to get Ten! well... long story short, we all separated individually into the square and we all individually contacted and tried to find the Elect. I walked around, of course, always within site of another Elder, and then we proceded to talk to as many people as was possible... and... Mom and dad, I have to tell you something... I am speaking Czech... I talked to as many people as possible and I found a woman to whom I started talking and told her who we were and what we were doing and why we were here and then I asked her if she believed in God. This older lady told me that, yes, she believes in God. She told me that she is Catholic and that she goes to the Costel every sunday and that she reads the bible and that she is happy. I told her about the book of mormon and such and she was not very interested at all. "ne mam zijem" she said, which is to say, "I don't have intrest." she proceded to tell me that because she's already a believer, she doesnt need any more, and she was convinced that there was no need to continue talking about this further. Then I asked another question, "You're a believer, right?" "yes" she replied then I asked, "if you are a believer, then you'd be willing to do what God asks, right? If God were to reveal new scripture, would you read it?" She thought about it for a second... then she said, "Ano" (yes) Long story short, I gave her a book of mormon, she took it and looked at it and then I asked her, "can I see it for a second?" "yes" she handed the book back to me. I opened the book to Moroni 10 and asked her to read verses 3 through 5 and she did. after that she said that she would read more. I asked for her phone number and she gave it to me and then I asked her to read the Uvod (introduction) and she said, "ne, I'll read the whole thing, call me in 3 days" we did call her 3 days later and she said, "i'm in the hospital, i've had an accident, I'm okay, but I read the book of mormon and I know it's from God." we're going to talk to her more later. Another experience, we were about 20 minutes walk away from our appartment and we were out contacting and tracting and we recieved a call from one of our members, Bro. Mikulanka, and he needed us to come down to the church building quickly so we could unlock the door so that he could get his bike which he had left inside. we started running down the hillside on the coblestone paths and then halfway down, he called us and said, "eh, I don't need your help anymore, thanks!" we stopped running, caught our breath's and looked around, we were on a path in the middle of the woods and we had no idea where we were. I had a thought, "I think God wanted us to be right here right now for some reason" I said. then we looked further down the path and saw a lone man walking up in the opposite direction as us. we talked to him. long story short, he's super interested in God and has been a believer in god for only 3 years and he is anxious to learn more. we talked for over 30 minutes and then gave him a book of mormon. he told us, "do you think that I'm the person who you're supposed to give this book to?!" he was shocked and honored that God would want us to talk to Him! and we looked at each other, (elder boyce and I) and then I said, "why of course, I think you're the ONLY person qualified to recieve this book right now!" longer story short, we will likely be meeting with him in a couple weeks, he's gonna do his best to read it. out of time..... sad... I'll quickly send some pictures. Love you all! Elder Dean