so i'll start from the beginning.
monday
was great. we had a day packed of lessons. but as is usual, it went by
far to fast. i wish stopping time was a spiritual gift. i don't know if
that's a good thing to hope for though. :/ I'll have to be careful what I
wish for, and just be smarter with the time that I have.
Tuesday was magical! we drove to jihlava (beautiful
town, edler jaynes is there right now) for district meeting and
exchanges. the drives here are amazing. we past fields of many different
colors of flower. white! purple, and sunflowers! it was great! sadly we
are too busy to stop and smell the flowers (pun, somewhat intended, [is
that a pun? i feel like my english skills are on a steady decline.] or
even take pictures of the beautiful fields, :/ some other time!) but
the district meeting was really fun, Elder Knapp and I gave a little 10
minute peice at the end, and we have adopted many of each others habits
already. it's nuts. having a companion is just great! haha it was funny
becuase i didn't really notice this until i was on the exchange with the
new missionary (elder king, provo native, big golfer :) we talked about
the valley becuase somehow he knows tons of stuff about it, ski
mountains, lakes, courses, it was a fun exchange [we kept our focus and
work up though no worries] :) and he's a great missionary already!) we
also got to teach english and someone brought us cherries! it was
wonderful. Elder king isn't the biggest cherry eater, and the man who
gave them to us said we needed to eat them that day, so i couldn't save
any for elder eliason (who was in pardubice with Elder Knapp for the
day) :/ which meant that the rest of the evening was filled with cherry
eating a pit spitting :) we made french toast for dinner- good combo:
french toast, nutella, and cherries. like i said, it was a great
exchange. but also becuase we got to teach with a newly baptized member
there. she is a machine! baptized maybe two weeks ago but just has a
rock solid testimony, already wants to go on a mission. wants a
missionary tag already and even secured a missionary daily planner!
hahaha it was great. she's already a huge boost to the branch.
in other wild news trebic is also a beautiful city.
it's like a bowl from where the apt. is so everything is up hill. really
really pretty though.
in other wild news (it's
really WILD) on saturday in pardubice we ran into some young men from
trebic who were here for a rubix cube competition! i thought 2 minutes
was good. the good guy there can to it in 8 seconds! 8 SECONDS. another
can do it in 15 with his eyes closed! and yet another in 45 seconds with
his feet! HIS FEET! it blew my mind.
THE rest of the week was a blast. teaching tons and having a blast doing all that we do :)
we
will be having a baptism this week! she's really great and is ready for
it. She's really excited, as are the members, as are elder knapp and I.
It's going to be a great week getting everything finalized. we also may
be looking at an exchange with the assistants this week and another
with the elders in Hradec Kralove. should make for another rediculously
busy week! :D
dad, we did make gnocci for district lunch on sunday after church. if i may say so it was pretty stinking good. :)
otherwise,
i love studying. i love working. i love teaching. we're eating well and
getting along like peas and carrots. it's a great time to be in
pardubice!
love
elder stimpson
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