October 15 letter

 















I really feel like we emailed just yesterday. which is not terribly true but almost. anywho's. i'm gonna dive right into it.

starting from the beginning.

wednesday was a great day. we had a really nice district meeting and a stinking busy day. we had a few lessons on plan... taught none of the planned lessons ( a little sad, but those were taught the next day or the day after) but our day was filled with lessons that just kinda came up! i sure do love when people are spontaneous. Favorably spontaneous that is. :)

Thursday was an absolute blur. wow. i'll have to look at the journal for that one and get back to ya :)

friday was really really cool. we had a first lesson with a new kid, who reads stories like nobodies business. czech is normally pretty monotoned except for around punctuations... commas go a little up. periods go down. and question marks go way up. well this kid was like a roller coaster. and also studied the bible, so after reading a verse very intensely would pause and give a few good.... mmmmm's and oooooo's. he's a stud. we're excited to keep meeting with him the only problem is that he is only in town for a little while longer and then going back home to znojmo (a beautiful town, so i hear, south of brno, very far away.. well as far as czechs are concerned it's the other side of the country! but in MT terms it's closer than helena and just a lil farther than missoula) i love MT :)

THEN CONFERENCE.

best conference ever. can't say much more than that. we were blessed in that we watched it in czech (while i can understand the gospel somewhat well in czech... the stories and large verbs used by some apostles *cough* elder christofferson *cough* (he's my favorite, that's the only reason i'm calling him out. and cause last conference he gave a "translate that" {we listen to conference as we work out in the mornings and always laugh as the translator translates that, then chuckles a little bit... cause otherwise the translation is wonderful czech. and by wonderful czech i mean incredibly tuned to one note. :)  but yeah.) (i've lost track of how many parentheses i've used i'm sorry). anywho's i really enjoyed conference! the spirit hit me like a brick wall from the very beginning and i really enjoyed every second of it. some people said it was long (the members here are hilarious when they talk about the video [one old lady here calls it that, teehee] :)  but it was amazing i was not tired during any of it! i need to be a missionary during conference more often that's all i can say.

it was full of revelation here as i'm sure it was for all of you, fam. basically i'm grateful that our home was a place where living the gospel was easy. and i'm grateful that we have the guidance of our leaders to remind us of our commitments. it was just lovely.

oh goodness it was great. this week is looking stinking awesome too!! :D

sure do love ya'll!

elderstimpson (specially you momma!)