Sestra Sariah Sadler: Česká republika

Found a childhood favorite!!!!! ORANGINA!

Dobrý den!!! Ahoj!!

Jak se máte?! How are you?!

This week has been a little all over the place! On Monday I had my first Czech koláč! (sweet, Czech bread pastry with filling) It was a little plain tasting so I wasn't all that impressed... but don't worry, they're good... I'll explain later though.

On Wednesday, we went district contacting!! We went to a pretty busy area - or at least busy when the trams and buses drop off tons of people there - and I designed with chalk on the ground our writing of #KnížePokoje (#PrinceofPeace) because of the Easter Initiative ''Learn Principles of Peace from the Prince of Peace''!! And then the contacting began!

From Elder Pickett's weekly update: "We also had a great chalk display using the new Easter campaign, Prince of Peace. Sister Sadler is quite an artist, and chalked out the phrase in Czech in some fancy lettering, and then we all stopped people to talk about it. I got a picture because it is dang impressive. We met a lot of really cool people during that and set up with several of them and will be meeting with them next week. It should be a good week and we are looking forward to some new people to work with." (😏 That was nice. Thanks Elder Pickett)

We tried to stop so many people but because the trams are right there, most of the time people are in a hurry to catch them. There were a few people though that we were able to stop and talk with about Easter and the importance of Christ in our lives.

Sestra Andersen and I found two women who were interested in what we had to say! Hopefully it stays that way! We actually invited one of them to Family Home Evening tonight at the church building!!! After contacting, Sestra Andersen and I went to one of our less-actives' house and we taught her more about the Book of Mormon and how she can personalize the scriptures to her and understand that the book is meant for us in this day in age even though it was written forever ago! It was such a good lesson! And, when we left she gave us some rum cake and chocolate cake... she said that rum cake had all of the alcohol burnt out of it so I ate that for my companion who did not like the taste hahaha!

On Thursday, Sestra Andersen and I went with our bishop to the main square/naměstí and now we have a stand there at the Easter/Velikonočně market!!!

Find lasting peace: https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2017-02-1000-the-prince-of-peace-find-lasting-peace-through-jesus-christ?lang=eng

We're showing the new Easter video there along with a couple of others centered on Christ and it's so cute! We have it all the way through Easter and we will be there pretty much all day, so we take shifts with the elders as we smell the amazing food all around and look at the donkeys, ponz, sheep, and goats that have a petting type of a stand right in front of ours! That means families are looking our way! Exciting stuff!!

On Friday, we did some service! We went to a home for women and their children from bad homes and sang Easter songs and brought Easter activities to do like crafts involving eggs and coloring farm and spring animals, the kids were so cute! While we were there they gave us some tea... you get tea everywhere here! Members serve it to you all the time haha... Something I'm getting used to... as long as there's sugar in it, it usually isn't too bad... And they gave us koláčý! (the sweet pastry) Which were so good this time! They were warm and home-made, and had powdered sugar on top!

St John 14:27 : Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

This weekend we had General Conference and it was amazing! I always love hearing from the prophet and our apostles! They always have such good information that's relevant, and it seemed like so many of the talks were centered on Christ which is just the best!