Dear
Momma:
firstly
wild stuff.
czech
is taking over more and more parts of my brain. i find myself trying to decline
english words and change adjectives for when i'm talking about plural things.
like instead of sketchy things. i said sketche things. it was nuts. otherwise
my goal this transfer is going to learn how to speak brnian. it's like it's own
language. just beautiful. i felt like a new missionary/still def do! haha i
need to pick up an accent though. it's weird becuase tons, i mean TONS, of
people speak english here. in ostrava that wasn't quite the case. there it's
like a czech/slovak/polish mix and here its more of a czech/brno/maybe slovak?
mix? i dunno? being in ostrava was great cause now my czech is better than it
otherwise would've been. i'm just not used to teaching lessons in english haha.
oh well.
the
real wild stuff: the czech republic has chocolate flavored water.... you may
ask yourself, momma: why would i want chocolate flavored water?... i would love
to tell you.
1.
are you thirsty? you're in luck becuase it's water!
2.
do you have a sweet tooth? again, you're all set becuase it tastes like
chocolate!
3.
do you love chocolate but worry about eating your way out of clothes that fit?
in luck again! (actually i have no idea the nutritional facts of this stuff.
still don't have the vocabulary for it hahaha)
4.
do you want a drink that is a dessert in itself? i could go on for days, but
you get the picture.
it's
awesome cause the chocolate really only comes as an after taste or when it
stays on the tongue for a while. so while i'm eating i just drink it faster and
it goes great with whatever i'm eating cause it tastes like normal water. and
then when i'm done and i want dessert.... well i just let it play games with my
pallet and voila! dessert in a drink. it's awesome. if i think of an easy way
to send it home i will hahahah. i dunno though. exploding chocolate water
wouldn't make anyone happy haha.
mother:
i picked up another you-ism. my companion sometimes gets worried about his
czech (i dunno why his is way better than mine during my second transfer) and
says "i can't.." :) you can see where this is going... while i don't
have a gym or field to make (i mean ask) him to run laps around. i do have the
first vision and 13 articles of faith in czech that all need recitation :) needless
to say he now knows the first vision much better! and we're not saying the
can't-word too often either :)
in
other news brno is just a happening place! the branch here is great! my
companion and i are teaching FHE tonight. it's a ton of YSA's here (there's
actually oodles in brno it's awesome!) and so we have dinner and play games and
teach and such. i have yet to go before but i'm pretty sure it has blast
written all over it.
another
cool part of brno: the people! i feel like brno is the south of the czech
republic. i will definitely have to do some more digging on this. but as of now
i have a few correlated points.
1.
accents. both brno and the south have awesome accents. sometimes they may be
hard to understand... :) but they're just too cool!
2.
friendliness! i though people in ostrava were great, and i'm happy to say that
the people here are also great! we were learning czech the other night from a
native, and we were talking about how we can approach people on the street.
this guy, he's awesome by the way, says to us, "maybe ask people how
they're doing right off the bat"
we
said, "like a good ol' 'jak se mate?'?"
he
replied.... well ('jak se mate' is a more personal than the american equivalent
"how are you doing" not something you would normally ask people you
don't know) "you know" he said, "you could probably get away
with it in brno." hahaha the story may have lost it's thunder by being
typed. but we had a good laugh about it at the time. good stuff
otherwise
we are definitely seeing miracles in the work. example 1, yesterday we didn't
have anybody planned to come to church, which is kinda not the best feeling as
a missionary. but on the tram over i was just thinking to myself. who knows! we
handed out plenty of cards! invited people to church! who know's whos going to
come! and sure enough a man who had been contacted while we were singing a
while back came to church! it was awesome! i'm realizing more and more how
little work i actually do, or rather how small of a role i play in the miracles
i'm seeing. the Lord is the one in charge, and boy am i grateful because he
know's all of us better than we know.
anywho's
time to get going. sure do love ya momma!
eldre
stimpson
