Transfer 8: November 28, 2016 Thanksgiving!

This week was awesome, we had thanksgiving at the Sister's appartment. I know that in some missions, what we did, by going to the sisters' appartment, would be a big big big big no-no. But there were six of us, four elders and two sisters, and we just do things differently in our mission. So we went over there, the six of us, and we had a fun time cooking everything, and I got us cooking everything on timelapse with my go-pro. The Elders in zlín cooked the trukey, and we had a District conference call on Wednesday night to confirm who was bringing what foods. The Elders in zlín told us that they were bringing the bird, and also an apple pie, an american apple pie, that they had made from scratch, as well as some freshly baked rolls. We were all excited and the quote of the day by far was when Elder Stacy (our District Leader) said, "So here's the main question... How are we going to get a 350degree turkey, to your appartment?" We all showed up at the sisters' appartment Thursday Morning and Elder Geir and I brought two cheesecakes, two boxes of Kraft Maccaronni and Cheese (thanks mom is was a big hit at Thanksgiving!) as well as the mashed potatoes. But when we got to the Sisters' appartment, which is on top of a HUGE hill that overlooks the city, Elder Geir and I realized that we had forgot the cheesecakes in the freezer at home. So the Zlín elders just waited outside the sisters' appartment while Elder Geir and I ran down the hill to get the cheesecakes. That day we all ate like kings, Elder Stacy did a good job with the turkey. After we had eaten, Elder Stacy stood up and said, "I'm going to tell you a story" it was the dumbest story ever, about a man who ran over a chicken in his truck, and Elder Stacy had a towel in his hands that he was messing with, and this whole time he wa telling this story about how the owner of the chicked was mad that this guy had run over his chicken, and then at the end of the story Elder Stacy flung the towel open and said, "here's your chicken sir" and he had folded the towel in such a way that it looked like a chicken, it was the siliest thing ever! We then all went outside into a nearby grassy field, and we played Ultimate frisbee. There were six of us so it worked out just fine. Elder Geir rolled his ankle 4 times! so we stopped. Then after we went back inside for pie. We then played Bang (a card game) and then we went home. It was a good day! This is the coolest mission ever, I could not ask to be in a better place right now. I understand that home is home, and I'll be there when I am called home, but for now, This is where I am supposed to be, and I am very grateful for that. Yesterday at church there was a man who spoke from Brno, he came to speak to our ward, and his talk was about Perfection. Often as latter day saints, we want to be perfect, and that is hard. We often have an incorrect perspective of the word Perfect. Oftentimes we misunderstand it to mean, "without fault" or "100 percent successful ALL the time" but that is simply not true. In his talk, this high councelor spoke about two types of perfection. This life, and Eternal perfection. We often think of Eternal Perfection when we hear the word Perfect in the church, but we need to understand better the first meaning, which is different. The word perfect in czech has two words... each word described the two types of perfection. The first word is DOKONALÝ, the second word is PERFEKTNÍ. Each of these words are directly translated in to english to be "perfect" but they are not the same. DOKONALÝ or DO-KONALÝ means to make whole or to do wholly. In other words, we are to fulfill our responsibility. The word PERFEKTNÝ means to be perfect, Eternally. we can be DOKONALÝ when we faithfully visit our assigned families for home teaching each month. In the aspect of Home Teaching, we are "perfect" or Dokonalý because we fulfilled or did wholly our responsibility. This means, in effect, that we are Perfect at our calling as a home teacher. Now, this is not to mean that we cannot improve as a teacher, or that we cannot improve our capacity to serve better, with more love or whatever, but it DOES mean that we are doing our part, and that we are obeying the commandment to "be ye therefore perfect." I have since told myself that I want to be a guy who completes things, who fulfills things, and who does things until they are whole. Don't ever become discouraged thinking that it is impossible to improve. I am learning so much about the Atonement here on my mission, and I know that our Heavenly Father will always provide a way for us to be successfull, and to overcome the world with His help, because He has already overcome it. I'll be helping to prepare for this christmas season here in Uherské Hradiště, the ward is doing a christmas concert, and we're (the missionaries) are going to be a part of it! We'll make sure to get pictures and perhaps some videos too. These members are the best, truly the most faithful people I have ever met in my life, (no offense everyone, but they lived through communism and were baptized in lakes and stuff running away from police and stuff) also, there are red Book of Mormons which were only around during communism, I am trying so hard to find one, and I want to bring it home as a suveneir. If any of you happen to see, hear of, or get one, let me know. Love you all, S Láskou, Starší Dean