February 27 Letter

this week was wild. don't know what else to say really, so i'll just dive into it!

 

pictures: one of the post presentation at adam's class, another is after game night, and another is me with my big napkin becuase the last time we ate at this member's house i spilled... "jidlo mi napadlo" so this time she gave me a bigger napkin to eat with haha

 

 

 

firstly cool stuff in czech: amputovat = to amputate. real verb. hopefully will never have to be used!

another cool thing i learned is how to say, "we'll miss you" and it kinda makes sense but at the same time the first time i heard it i couldn't help but laugh.  Budete nám chybět -we will miss you. directly translated: you will be, to us, to miss (or to lack or something of the sort) i love czech haha

so elder gleue and i went to adam's school this friday, we have way too much fun, and learned that the winnie the pooh character Eeor (i have no idea how to spell his name) is, in czech, iaček. i had a good laugh after learning that one.

 

We had a really cool lesson this week with a chinese girl, kasey. We met her at the dorms. super wild story. firstly there are two forms of written chinese, traditional and simplified. i guess if you can read traditional then you can read simplified, but the converse does not hold true. for some reason we had a traditional but not simplified book of mormon.i dunno why. so during splits elder gleue and elder gibson (our fearless district leader) were going around the college dorms with a traditional chinese book of mormon becuase we met a kid who needed one in chinese (but we only had the traditional one). they were in the dorms to see if he could read the traditional, but he couldn't, so few floors later ran into a chinese girl who firstly says "i don't speak czech," they learned speaks decent english but when they found out she spoke chinese they whipped out the book of mormon! haha she was amazed that they'd had one! it was really awesome! but unfortunately she couldn't read the traditional chinese either. fast forward a week after our trip to prague and picking up some simplified books, we went back for the next lesson with her. it was awesome. i had my little baby english book of mormon, we were on splits so elder gibson had his czech book of mormon and we gave kasey a simplified chinese book of mormon. It was wild! we read through the introduction with her (chinese sounds so wild! haha) it was awesome though! def one of the coolest experiences thus far.

 

thanks also for the rice krispies, again :) when we were at the foreign police in prague i shared them with the MTC group (they all remembered them very, very well! hahaha) (and thinking about them is building my appetite! haha)

 

But yeah this past friday was Adam's presentation at school about America, so we went and helped him out and spoke about America. Showed our pictures and talked about what we did before coming to the czech republic. It was pretty cool! it was really nice to meet adam's friends (theyre awesome) and it was also pretty weird to be in a high school in a different country! it was nuts! the culture of shoe-taking-off here is so strong that the kids don't even wear the same shoes from outside into the schooL! i had no idea! it was way neat though. also the teachers don't have their own classroom, much like college (or more like college i guess) they teach in all kinds of different rooms. it was wild. but elder gleue and i got treated like VIP's! haha we got there about 10 min before class and so we went into an office and talked with who i thought was the principal (i still don't know how to spell that word, as if i did before my spelling went down the drain) but she used a different title that may have very well been from england in translation or something. she gave us some fruit tea and this cake (baked by kids at the school!) when i heard that i firstly pictured like a home ec class baking cakes and giving them to visitors that came (a scary thought in my mind). but i could not have been more wrong! the presentation was comparable to yours momma and the taste, oh wow! i would gladly go back and give another presentation there hahahaha i still just laugh thinking that kids at that school baked a cake so stinkin good. and I think about Home ec adventures and eating baked goods from those classes. goodness me. i sure am on the other side of the world haha

 

in other news, twix (the candy bar) has some weird promotion here that i can't read all the adds on the bars for (it may be for eating twix with coffee or something?) but they are now selling packs of 5 twix bars that come with free spoons! it's my childhood dream of the toys in the cereal boxes except not having to send the 8 coupons to some strange po box to get the prize! so i had to get it! i use the spoon every morning with my cereal or oatmeal hahaha the only problem is, i still have 5 twix bars that stare me in the face everytime i open the pantry!

 

i've been reading talks by elder christopherson (in preparation for the conference of his that is coming up in NO TIME! oh goodness. if you have any suggestions/requests for when i'm in his vicinity (sp?) email them to me by next week haha ) but it's really strengthening my testimony of the organization of the church. I know this is Christ's church. He leads it. That knowledge gives me so so much comfort. I love the scriptures more each day and am so happy that i have time everyday to do nothing but study in the scriptures! it's great!

 

sure do love ya'll tons and can't wait till next week!

 

Dean