Sestra Sariah Sadler: Slovensko - Week 1 in Trenčín (some names changed for privacy)

Me and my new companion; Sestra Sister Sawyer

Trenčín is literally so cute! It's just this little town close to the Czech/Slovak border and there's a castle right in the middle of town which we're probably going to end up seeing, hopefully, next week! But don't worry, I took some pictures of the outside of it from the center of town looking up at the hill it's located on...

This week I got to meet all of our members! Our branch has about four active consistent members. The branch president and his wife, the Vaclavoví, his mom Sister Alžběta (that's her first name so that her daughter-in-law and her names' don't get mixed up), and Sister Křižanová. Plus the missionaries who double the branch, Elders Siikavaara and Goddard, and Sister Sawyer and I. But, this last Sunday (...yesterday...) We also had another member at our branch because there was a Relief Society skype activity to kind of lay out what would be going in the year. And there was another man who came who will be living in Trenčín for the next three months or so.

We meet on the 2nd floor of this building for church.

During the week we went to the Vaclavoví's house twice - once to visit their mom, and once to visit them -. And I got to meet Sister Křižanová at our weekly English class. We also did tons of service here.

We help this man called Lovap at his restaurant sometimes, stacking wood and this week we also took down his Christmas tree and watered his plants. Then we also did some service for someone else by helping them clean out an apartment they recently bought and then they made us palacinky and bramboraky! Kind o like crepes and potato pancakes! So nice!

We found one person this last week whom we're going to meet with hopefully tonight. His name is Yrral and he's from Prague. He also happens o be a pantomime! hahahaha... He told us that we have good hearts so he'd be willing to meet with. He also really liked that our work is all voluntary.