April 10, 2017

In response to some peoplerson asking a lot of questions... I'll include some basic area information for all of you who are trying to picture what is happening over here. So... We are in a decent size town southwest of Olomouc. we attend church in Olomouc at 9:00am every Thursday (no just kidding, jasně on Sunday). The branch consists of about 15 Active Members, who are super cool. The Branch President is President D, who just recently got married to somebody from Uherské Hradiště. It is cool actually, his name is O D, and he was actually my Branch Mission Leader while I was in Jihlava, and I got to be super good friends with him, and then while I was in UH, I got to go to his wedding, and then he and his wife moved to Olomouc because they knew that Olomouc was in desparate need of a new branch president, previously it was a missionary serving as the branch president. Now O is my Branch President and so I've been able to hang out with him essentially my whole mission, he's grown, and I have grown too. Here in Prostějov, we are doing well. We just met some cool young guys who are dancers, they teach young people how to dance (breakdance), and they met with us, and they are all super interested in the Restoration. We met with them so far once, and they all felt the spirit super strong. we were trying to call the main guy yesterday and stuff, but he didn't answer, we then met him by chance (not really) on our way to the train station today on our way to Olomouc for P-Day. These are the same kids for whom we called down the Powers of Heaven to assist us in meeting up with them. We actually didn't see him this morning as we were walking to the train station, but he saw us, and it was him who actually stopped us. We set up to meet on Wednesday. In prostějov we now have an office, however the only thing in our office is a Television, and two chairs... litterally, it is super funny. We have a wad of reciepts that we'll be reimbursing with the mission office, probably about 200 dollars worth of material that we've needed to buy for our area. For Easter, the Market has officially been set up for Prostějov, and there was a huge concert on the Town Square yesterday, as we got off the train and headed back into the center of town, to go home, we heard an enormous amount of noise coming from the town square, we walked through the center of town to see hundreds of people yelling at the top of their lungs in excitement for the Easter festivals to begin. In a beautiful city like Prostějov, and in Olomouc, we're bound to have some good markets. S Láskou, Starší Dean