March 27, 2017

So, this week's email is going to be kind of short, but I have a cool story for you. So three days ago, the Zone Leaders came down to Prostějov to go on an exchange with us. We had previously been having some problems finding people to teach. The Zone Leaders had a goal to find four new investigators, two each companionship. And we agreed that we'd strive to achieve that. I was to spend the day with Elder Hymas, and Eldre Jensen was to spend the day with Elder Smith. We went out and Elder Hymas and I tracted, while the other Elders were off doing something else. We were out tracting for a couple hours, and nobody was interested. It was getting late, and we started coming home. As we were approaching the center of town, where we live, we met a family, and they were opposed to our message, but then we just started testifying, "Look... We know that you don't trust churches, but that is what is so cool about our message, YOU DON'T NEED TO TRUST US, you can go to God in Prayer, and you can ask Him yourselves! and when you do, you will know that our message is true, you don't have to take it from us." Then suddenly, both of the parents suddenly just kind of... clicked, and the wife said, "what about thrusday at 5:45?" We're going to call them tomorrow and confirm our meeting. Right before meeting this family, we met two young guys named J, and R. They are dancers, and we told them that we would love to share our message with them, and they agreed to meet up. We decided on a time, we would meet by the movie theater in town on Sunday at 2:00pm. I figured that we would be able to make it back from church in time, so we agreed. We forgot to get their phone numbers... The next day (friday), our branch president called asking us to participate in Branch council the next day. Eldre Jensen and I were not sure how we were going to make it work, and we knew that we were technically supposed to go to the appointment rather than the Branch council according to our missionary rules, but we also both felt like it was important for us to be there at Branch Council. As we were sitting there Saturday morning discussing this, I had the prompting to go and pray, to call down the powers of Heaven to assist us. I got up from my desk, went into the bedroom, closed the door, and knelt down. I waited, pondering about whether or not this was according to God's will... I felt okay, no spirit telling me not to... "Heavenly Father, I am praying, because we need to meet with these people, J and R... I call down the powers of Heaven to allow us to run into them again, and allow us to set up for another time, and I do this as a servant of Jesus Christ, and I do so in His name, Amen." I then asked Elder Jensen to also personally pray that we could find these guys, and he did of course... And then we went out and worked as normal. That day we did not see them, I figured that perhaps we didn't need to, and so I wasn't too worried about it. We went to Branch Council the next day (yesterday), and then after church, we came back to Prostějov, and then we went throughout the plan that we had for that particular day, and as we were coming home last night after tracting, We were passing by the door of a building, and right as we were walking past the door, litterally right as we were walking passed the door, J and R both walked out together... We were super happy to see them, it may have startled them to see just how happy we were... we apologized for not making our appointment, they said that they were there where they said that they would be, but that we didn't show up... they were with their group of friends though, and they already had on plan to be there regardless of whether or not we would have shown up though so it was all cool. We got Juri and Radek's phone number, and then we said that we'd shoot for Tuesday (tomorrow). That night (last night) I thanked Heavenly Father for His willingness to answer the prayer of His not-so-faithful servant, and ever flaky servant, and I was personally amazed and Humbled to see that Heavenly Father would lend us His power upon our asking for it. I know that the promise in the scriptures is true, that if we ask the Father for anything, that is right, with faith in Jesus Christ, It will be given unto us. Love you all! S Láskou, Starší Dean