June 18 letter

this week seriously flew by! but at the same time it felt like monday was a year ago! time is certainly a fickle thing as a missionary. sometimes it's 7 in the morning and you think the day will never get here. then it's 4 and they day is nearly gone. then 9:00 comes around and it's easily the quickest hour and a half of the day. 

speaking of time my sense of time is very warped so forgive me if i already sent this picture. the word for rainbow is duha. really just some phlegm away from being spirit. so one must be careful in bearing testimony that it comes from the holy ghost and not the holy rainbow.

this past week was just great!

started off great! the branch here puts on an FHE for the youth, and elder hansen and i had some investigators come last week. it was a really cool experience. we caught a later tram so one might say that we made and entrance :) it was great though. introduced them to some YSA's here which is just awesome. members just make missionary work much much easier! haha district meeting on tuesday was pretty wild. the zone leaders were in bratislava (they visit the other district once a transfer to see how everyone's doin) so it was a little different. but really great. we spent most of the time reading questions asked by Jesus in the new testiment. Jesus is such an amazing teacher. It was one of the cooler district meetings and to me it's completely obvious why. when we focus on the scriptures and "preach my gospel" then everything goes well and the spirit is there.

in other news we had our last specialized training of the transfer on friday. it was combined three zones. every missionary in eastern CZ and all of slovakia was there. it was something indeed! it really hit me how real our callings are. how incredibly serious they are as well! i mean the Lord has trusted us with many, many, many people to look after! it was just a really neat experience.

one other side note from the conference is that i found out who the missionary is that announced his call on the same day as me in mission prep. he is in bratislava right now! a stone's throw away! it was a cool reunion, and when we told president that we have to serve together.... well he laughed to say the least (he's a funny guy like me. well i'm not terribly funny i just smile a ton). he's a smiler too. so we would be a terribly smiling companionship. goodness.

in the cool miracles department we had a singing display this week! i'll have to write more about it on the alpha thangy tonight cause i don't have much time left

sure do love ya momma!!!

dean