February 21, 2012

Feb 21 4:43am

firstly expect a letter in two weeks. i just sealed one up (already forgot if i actually finished the letter i was just so excited to send it haha)

nextly expect a package in much more time than that.. i'm still working on it but imagine i'll get it sent by next pday? i dunno

where to begin!

elder gleue and i had the best time in prague  - we got there pretty stinkin early so that we could go for a nice walk and boy am i glad we did! haha it was def the best weather in prague i've ever seen (you'll see on the photos) i'm trying to get the photos up but i'm having some trouble... i'll figure it out don't worry.

tons of wild stuff happened this week!

firstly, i finally made a fool of myself while speaking czech and actually heard it (all the other times the members just don't say anything or forget about it or something).  i've been waiting for a moment like this and finally it arrived hahahah needless to say it's the first of many!  while i was giving my testimony last sunday, i guess i said something at the beginning that was pronounced terribly... (now i'm glad i did cause it's HILARIOUS) or at least i thought it was/is. while starting off saying how glad i am to give my testimony, i guess i instead said something like, oh man i'd really like to get married! (the words for married and the verb to share a testimony i guess are eerily similar?, who knows! haha) so that was nice and i had a really good laugh when i heard about it. I'm almost proud of it cause there are def some worse stories about there about mispronunciation (ostrava has tons of them!) [you may want to edit this out of the online one i dunno, i don't really mind either way... but the verb for "to share" (like a testimony) and "to poop one's pants" are really similar- podělit se and podělat se (who was in charge of making those verbs so similar? I do NOT know. goodness me. you can imagine how people reacted to that one from the pulpit! hahahahahahah] oh garsh.

i also heard the other day that were like 4 miles from the closest part of poland! it's wierd to think i could run to another country in the time we have for our morning workouts.... interesting thought.

in business i guess from now on when sending packages instead of putting my name on the package just put the number "1216" anywhere on the package. i guess the packages are diff than the letters and if there is a name at all on them then the office people have to go pick them up at the post office cause they hold on to them. it's nuts. but yeah so the address would just be the normal package address (without my name on it) and the box would have the number 1216 somewhere on it? (any questions talk to sister bohne i think? haha she's so stinkin funny and nice, elder gleue and i love when we get to call her! haha)

wild story time: one of the pictures of me in snow is from when i went on splits with elder bahr (he's new this transfer so we're even younger than elder gleue and i!) and we had to get to the building for some things that i had there. he likes to run and i certainly don't mind so we went for a nice jog in the morning! it was crazy.

later that day we got into a panelak and tracted out 79 doors. it was nuts but at the same time super, super fun. It's a very strange mix of emotions knocking on that many doors (not a very normal activity for everyday life) but having some really cool testifying experiences. We gave out more restoration pamphlets than i would shake a stick at! it was great!

oooh real quick: i got the package from Rexanne! CRAZY story! i got a call from the elders there that a package had just been dropped off for me (i thought UPS or something) then that morning elder gleue and i are walking around prague taking in the sites, ended up going down the same road twice (at the time i had no idea why but now it's super obvious) and i heard my name! this has happened once or twice before cause i guess there are some similar sounding czech words. but it was immediately followed by my full name, at which point i thought i was sleeping and dreaming the whole thing! Then elder gleue and i turned around and met Barb, the nice lady who dropped off my package from Rexanne!  IT WAS NUTS. for much of the morning i was wondering the odds of seeing people i know or other missionaries, and decided it wouldn't happen, but how cool would that be to meet someone i knew/had a connection to in prague! sure enough it happened! the lord sure does love his misisonaries, that's all i've got to say about that.

(ill send another with more pictures)

 Feb 21 4:47am

The internet will be able to tell you more about the attached pictures than I could, but yeah, Prague on Monday was awesome.  I'll try to paint a picture:

We got into Prague around 9 or so and had plenty of time that morning before our trip to the foreign police to take pictures and walk around and find all kinds of fun stuff! cool places we went: all kinds of cathedrals, the Charles bridge, the Amercian embassy (my personal favorite : they had a sign on the front that said:

                                    Today is a Federal Holiday

                                       PRESIDENTS DAY

Then had picture of an ax with apples (an allusion (?) to good ol George Washington right?) has that story actually been discredited yet? I love it anyway haha

I love ya'll tons and tons and cant wait till next Monday! :D

love

Elder Stimpson