Dear Family,
Well, this may very well be the shortest blog that I write to you. Sadly, There's not really much I can write from this last week. All the lessons that we set up fell through, about five of them - one was even a member lesson. We had four lessons with less actives. Other than that, it's been a pretty tough week to push through. There have been other times on my mission where we've had really hard weeks like this one, I don't think that any of them have been this low, but I would always feel really bad about it. This week is different. I know that we worked hard, we did lots of finding and tried really hard to meet with our investigators. Just everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong. Ari, the Mongolian lady that we're working with: her son's father had a stroke and is in the hospital right now, so she left to Brno to take care of him, so she couldn't meet with us. Dana has a ton of school and work as usual, but this last week has really taken a large toll on her so she's been really tired and couldn't meet with us. Other than that, we've been doing our best to find the people here in Trebic who are ready to hear our message. It's been tough, but we don't have any regrets about this last week.
Elder Vomocil has been helping me a lot about feeling good about what we're doing instead of expecting such great things out of the work and then being disappointed and discouraged when it doesn't turn out such. He's helped me look at the Christ-like Attribute of 'hope' differently. It's been helping a lot, and now I'm much happier about what we're doing. It's great to be working with Elder Vomocil; we're always laughing, having a great time, but still at the same time, building each other up and working hard.
I haven't much to say, but I hope that you're all doing well and are safe. If you can see the blessings in your own lives, it gives us the hope and determination to find those who want to see the same kinds of blessings in their own lives here in Trebic - to bring them the same happiness that we all have.
My body aches, my brain is exhausted, but my spirit is hungry to work on. I love working as a missionary. I just wish that I could do it better! That just gives me a higher goal to shoot for, doesn't it? I love you all and hope you're all doing wonderfully.
Much love,
Starší Monk