June 27 2016

The McConkies go home tomorrow, June 28th, and I can barely believe it. President McConkie has been my Mission President for the first half of my mission, and I know that it is hard for him and his family to go home. They truly love it here among the Czechs. The Pohořilicskys will be taking over the mission on the 29th, and It's going to be the start of an amazing year of Miracles and growth as we embrace a new mission President. I remember when I first met Jan Pohořilicsky, and his wife. It was when I was serving in Jihlava, and Jan was the Branch Mission Leader in Třebič at the time. I had heard such amazing things about their family from the Elders serving in Třebič at the time, and we even went bowling with them about 1 week before finding out that they are to be the next Mission Presidents. We all had one last chance to email President McConkie today, he'll be able to read these last emails, and then that will be it, He'll lose his ability to communicate with us. He has invited us all to stay in Contact with him and his family after our missions and they have asked us to limit contact with them while still in the mission, because they want to ensure that the transition with a new mission president will go smoothly. We, the missionaries, need to be 100 percent loyal to President Pohořilicsky, and I feel like that will not be a problem. On Wednesday, we'll all be going to Prague to have our "Meet the President meeting" where we will all have a small training, and we will all be interviewed by President Pohořilicsky. I've already decided that I'm going to make it clear to him that I support him in this time of transition for them, and that I will be 100 percent loyal to them, and that they can call on me for anything. I love this mission, and I am so blessed to know that at the end of my mission, I will have two mission Presidents that I can say that I know, and will have as friends for the rest of my life. .............................................. Now I'm going to talk about the family that we've been teaching. They have their baptismal date on the 2nd of July, and they are progressing wonderfully. We just read in DnC 135 verses 1 - 3 with them the other night, and as m read verse 3, he began to get emotional. They have come so far in just 6 weeks, and they are already facing opposition from close friends etc... They came to church yesterday, and I conducted. I also spoke in church yesterday, and during Priesthood Quorum, we talked about the Word of Wisdom. Then, after church, M and E had their interviews with our wonderful Branch President, President J A. They are doing very well, your prayers are working, thank you and keep praying. We plan to tell them tonight just how many people are praying for their success, and we hope that will give them some strength as well. That's all for this week, I love you all, and keep studying the Gospel, it truly is the best! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jesus Thought: In Mark Chapter 9, Jesus gets back from off the mount of Transfiguration, and he meets a man who comes to him and basically says, "I need help, my son, he is sick, and he is always in danger because of it. I have dealt with this for a long time, please help." and then in one of the verses, the father says, "help us." Then Jesus turns to him and says, "if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." and the father quickly replies, "Lord I believe," and then IMEDIATELY the scripture says, the father then adds this phrase, "help thou mine unbelief." Sometimes we all are trying to excersise faith in some aspect of the Gospel. whether that's trust, hope, patience, love, charity, diligence... it can be whatever... and there are those times when we just WANT to believe, soooo bad! we WANT to qualify for the blessing, and we cry out, "Lord I believe!!! I want to believe sooo bad, Please help me believe!!!" And then what does Christ do? Guess you'd better go read and find out for yourselves.