Feb,13, 2017

I just want to talk about the Savior. I am a very imperfect man, I see that every day, I face temptation to do stupid things, to get angry, to say silly things, and the list goes on and on. I am not sinless, and I find myself repenting daily. But I know that we have a Savior, and I know that He did not suffer for 80 percent of my sins, nor did he suffer for 99 percent of my sins, but he suffered because of and for me, 100 percent of my sins. I, just like every other human being who has ever or will ever be born on this earth, will eventually be brought back into the presence of the Father, and there I will stand. Whether I stand with or without spot will depend entirely on my willingness to allow the Savior to change me, and to clense me. The Atonement appears difficult to understand sometimes, but when understood correctly, even an 8 year old can understand it well enough to apply it's principles in his/her life. This week was pretty cool. We were teaching english in the chappel on Wednesday, and then after english, we tried to set up a meeting with one of our students, and he was being pretty resistent to our invitation to talk about the Gospel. Within a few minutes of everybody leaving the chappel except us and our friend, we heard the back doors of the building open and in walked our mission president. President Pohořelický was in UH on Wednesday because he needed to have a meeting with his councelors, one of which is a member here in the UH ward. President had also told us that he would be attending our District Meeting the following day (thursday) so that was cool to find out that he would actually be staying the night in a hotel somewhere in UH so that he could come to our District meeting the next day. District meeting went well that next day. President interviewed all of us. I was excited to talk to president about some recent personal revelation. After district meeting was over that day, the other missionaries in my district started telling me about how President had talked about me during their interviews. Apparently President is very pleased with the changes in missionary work that I've been pushing for over the last 5 months, and he wants us all to bring these changes to the rest of the mission. I am very excited about this, and I know that it will bring the mission in an entirely new and better direction. That is, focusing on Member work more than Personal missionary work only among the missionaries. On Saturday the Relief Society had a Chocolate Day, where they made dozens of chocolates and gave them to friends and stuff. Elder Vickers and I stratigicly entered the chappel and just the right time to get some chocolates for ourselves. We hid some chocolate above some things on a high shelf for later, but when we came over to them on Sunday, somebody had found them and had opened them and had eaten them! It was so sad! Probably the deacons... gotta love them... hey at least we have deacons, that's a blessing that many places out here in the czech republic don't have. Well, I realized that every single pair of my pants are destroyed, they all have holes in the bottom, except for one pair, thank goodness, and so I bought an extra pair of pants today, European... 400Kč... that seems like a lot... yeah that's only 20 bucks. they're nice though. Love you all, and I'll talk to you next week! S Láskou, Starší Dean