Feb, 7, 2017

Fear doesn't come from God. my companion just said that now, and I felt like I needed to say that here. Today we had a meeting with our less active members the S family. They are actually just a mother and son, the step father is never present at these visits because he (from the records in the areabook) doesn't like the church. L and his mom are really cool. L has ginger hair and is 11 (still not baptized), and Sister S is becoming more and more active in the church. L will probably be baptized soon (remember the Lord's timing). We went over there today and we had family night. It was probably the first family night that they had ever had before, and we prayed, shared some spiritual experiences that each of us have had in our lives, and then we had rootbeer floats (without the rootbeer). The Zlín Elders (Elder Stacey and Elder Backman) were supposed to go to the American Candy Store in zlín and buy some rootbeers for us this morning but they forgot. So we made our rootbeer floats work using Kofola instead of Rootbeer. (což je škoda). But sharing spiritual experiences was fun. We each talked about times in our lives when we have felt or just simply known that Heavenly Father was involved. I told some stories from my mission experience about finding lost objects. It was a good visit. This upcoming Saturday, the Releif Society is having a "čokoládový večer" (chocolate night). That caught my attention when that was said over the pulpit yesterday, Elder Vickers and I quickly talked to the relief society president and made sure that we would have part in this Chocolate Night, because who wouldn't!? The recent changes to missionary work have honestly not changed too many things in our missionary work. The rest of the world has always followed a very strict schedule in terms of missinoary work. Waking up at 6:30am, then doing personal study at 8:00am, Companionship study at 9:00am, Language study at 10:00am, and then lunch for an hour. We were then expected to procelyte from 11:00am until 6:00pm where we were supposed to have dinner for an hour, then we were expected to procelyte from 7:00pm until 9:00pm when we would plan for the next day. The funny thing is, our mission has never been run this strictly... our day looked more like this: 6:30am wake up 8:00am - 9:00pm do the following things at SOME point during the day: - Personal study - Companionship study - Language study - Lunch - Proselyting - Dinner 9:00pm was planning time every night, planning for the next day. Now the NEW schedule is different for every mission. the new schedule makes life for other missions a lot more free, but ours stays exactly the same, only now we have daily planning in the morning instead of the evening. Really funny actually. Anyway, Love you all, and I'll email again next week! S Láskou, Starší Dean