Feb 29 2016

Okay, so I am officially in my 4th transfer, wow, I cannot believe that I have been gone for a little over 7 months! We had our Brno Conference on Monday, and it was awesome! We had an Area Seventy member come talk to us, and while we were there, the most exciting thing, was when President McConkie Announced to us, who the next Mission President is going to be. Now... when I was thinking about us getting a new mission Presidnet, I was thinking about it being another mormon guy from Utah, but oh how it suprized us when the picture pulled up, and especially for me, and my district. This new Mission President, his name is Jan Pohořilitcky, and His wife is named Pavalina, and they are going to take over the mission when President McConkie steps down. They are Czech. Very Rarely in church history has a mission president actually been native to the nation overwhich he prosides, and so that was already making history right there... But to make it even more crazy, this mission... THIS MISSION doesn't even have a STAKE here yet, and they are calling a native Czech to be the mission President! Now I am going to make it even crazier... My district in Jihlava, was over two cities: Jihlava, and Třebič. Jan and his wife live in TŘEBIČ, and they are currently the Branch Mission Leaders there in Třebič. My district knows these two, and they truly are the coolest people! Just last monday we went Bowling with our district and the Pohořilitcky family went bowling with us! They knew this whooooollleee time, and they were just going bowling with thier missionaries, and we had no idea that a week later, we would find out that they are going to be out next mission Presidents. Incredible! Well, after that craziness happened... Saturday happened, and then saturday night we recieved out Transfer calls. I remember we were walking across the Naměstí and it was getting dark. It must have been somewhere around 6:00pm, and we were walking up towards the church building, and then Elder Oviatt gets the phone call. He answers, and talks to whoever is on the other line, and then he hands the phone to me. I realized that I was speaking to President McConkie, rather than one of his Assistants. I recieved the news that on Monday morning (today), that I was to transfer to Česke Budějovice, a City city in the Prague Zone of the mission. Česke Budějovice is on the south west side of the Czech Republic. The branch here in Incredibly small, and only about 5 or 6 members attend Sacrament meeting each week. (or so I'm told). President McConkie made sure to let me know that if we were to succeed here this transfer, we're going to need to put in ¨110 percent¨. President then informed me that I was going to be Follow Up Training Elder Pickett, and that I was also going to be the District Leader. President told me that I will likely be called to be a Councilor in the Branch Presidency while I'm here, due to the lack of members. I am sitting here in Česke Budějovice now, and I'm going to be in a trio for the next couple days, because Elder Pickett's Trainer is still here, and he's dying (his mission is over), so he's going to be here with us until Thursday, and then on Thursday, his Parents are coming to pick him up from his mission. I think it's going to be a very cool experience to be able to see a missionary reuniting with his parents after two years of selfless service.