Sestra Sariah Sadler: Česká republika - Week 9 Olomouc (some names changed for privacy)

So, this week was very long! But of course, always in a good way!

It started off with us doing some service for one of our members here in Olomouc who recently found an apartment for him and his wife! We're cleaning the heck out of that place! It looks so much better now, we even did some more cleaning up this morning. It was so much fun! We had Starší Plewe and Zapalač there with us too! There was some intense carpet-cleaning and door/door-frame cleaning on all of our parts hahaha!

Then on Wednesday, we got on a train going to Šumperk to meet with Sámot... And this time we didn't basically go to Poland... we made it to Šumperk (even though we almost didn't make it). So here's the story: Once upon a time, two sestrý got on a train to Šumperk and got into the back of this particular train. However at one point in time, we decided to get into the train cart ahead of us and ask the train director where we were supposed to get off to be able to get to Šumperk. Turns out, we made the right choice in moving up because right after we did that, that last train cart got disconnected! In the end, the Spirit is the best companion! And, we made it to our lesson with Sámot about the Word of Wisdom! It's a tough lesson but we've been calling him every day just to make sure he's keeping it and he's very honest with us and is trying his hardest and has improved just so much! Sámot is literally the best!

Sestra Peterson & Sestra Sadler

On Friday we had some interesting contacts...There was another church in town and they were contacting as well which was a little strange for us and we kind of contacted each other. I started a contact with one lady who talked a lot about how her church speaks with the gift of angelic tongues... and about how our church isn't true because we don't speak in tongues and we don't understand... Well that was interesting. I simply bore testimony about the Book of Mormon and the Holy Ghost and Prayer. I didn't feel super great after that contact, but at the end of the day, I knew that my testimony had been strengthened and so honestly, that was such a growing opportunity for me that I am thankful for

Starsi Zapalac, Starsi Plewe & Sestra Peterson

Saturday was amazing! We went to Brno to do a service project! It's called the Wallace Toronto Project/Foundation. we helped clean up a park and cut down a bunch of trees so that people doing not so smart things (like illegal drugs) - don't hang out in the bushes next to this children's park. And then some others painted the building of a safe shelter for the Romani Gypsies

It was really cool! Plus I got to see all of my MTC people that I don't see at training's. Our district was the only one that came from our zones to do this with the other two zones that we don't ever have training's with.