Dear Family,
There's not a whole lot to say about the area this week, but I can tell you that we are going to see some cool things happen this next week, so you'll have to wait for next week to hear some good stories (I hope). Really, there's not much I can talk about this week, besides zone conference which I'm going to talk about in a second, because we didn't really have any lessons, we don't really have any investigators, and Libor is back on the map, but I already told you that last week. Little sad, but I guess we're all going to have a week or two like this every now and then, huh?
Actually, we did get one new investigator, but we found him like a week ago. We met with him again this week. He's this old guy who's very smart and very atheist. If I had to pick one word for him, I'd say skeptical. In the contact he kept saying that he didn't want to argue but everything that he'd say would come out as if he thought he was being attacked and he kind of made it into an argument. That doesn't make too much sense to me. So I had called him on Saturday, the Saturday before I wrote you this last time, and he said that it was the weekend and that Monday and Tuesday would be holidays, so he still had free time and that he didn't want to think about that kind of stuff so I should call him back on Wednesday. That made me a little afraid of him, that he would be so stubborn and stuck up to say that he can't even think about setting up a meeting when it's holiday or even weekend! So I called him the next Wednesday and got something set up, and he came to the meeting and everything that we'd say would come back in a very skeptical manner and I was very confused on what I had to say. How are you supposed to teach someone who is completely devoid of all faith? This man wasn't atheist, he was denying anything and everything that he couldn't see. He'd probably deny that Prague exists because he couldn't see it right then. Then to make it even stranger, we learned that he's a theoretical physicist. I didn't know where to go with this guy so we watched the restoration video and afterward, he seemed stumped because he could feel the Holy Ghost and couldn't explain it, so he thought for a moment on how he could come back to being skeptical again. I don't know where to go with this guy, but I gave him a Book of Mormon and he said that he'd read it just so he could learn more about us. So that's our new investigator for the week.
So, as of the first of July, we have had a new mission president, President and Sister Irwin. He's a delightful little British man and his wife is also very British. I love them to death already. They served here in the Czech Republic and while they were serving, they were told to go home and to wait for their assignment as mission president and wife. They already knew where they were going to go even though they weren't technically supposed to. President Dieter F. Uchtdorf couldn't really contain his excitement when he was interviewing them. Turns out that he has a really deep gratitude and love for this mission in particular. Perhaps because he was born in this country. Anyway, I had spoken with President Irwin before he came out to be our new president. He "died" as a missionary during my greenie transfer and so I saw him at zone conferences and spoke with him just a few times then. At this most recent zone conference he shared with us a few things that the Brethren are planning on changing as far as missionary work goes, and they're quite different in terms as far as what the president does; our work will stay pretty much the same. I don't know what particularly I can tell you about these changes, so I won't. :P
I can see that the rest of my mission with President Irwin is going to be amazing, and I'm looking forward to it with great anticipation. I'm also looking forward to a much better next week! I can't say that I'd really care if I didn't have another week like this last one ever again.
Not much to say, but I know that as long as we're doing exactly what the Lord wants us to be doing, then we will all be blessed tremendously, and if we're not, then we have some dire emergency to change. I can just say that the times that I was strictly obedient to what the Lord wanted, that is when I saw His hand the most. Life is short and there is lots to do, so without His help, it is completely and utterly impossible to live the way that He wants.
Do your best! I love and miss you all muches,
Starší Monk