A few highlights from Whitney's week...
Hello Everyone!!
This week has been amazing!!! By far one of the best, so here it is...
Building tours...it's really cool with 3
of us. We got permission from the President to be out of sight while doing tours so my companions lead the investigator through the building
while I play hymns on the piano in the Chapel. The church building is
small...only the chapel, a sunday school room, relief society room and
entrance/hall. My comps use the pictures on the wall to share a lesson...it's really powerful b/c the last room is the chapel and the spirit in
the Kosice chapel is beautiful! The other great part of our building
tours is that we get 2 commitments in and establish expectations before
we sit down. It's super effective and sets the mood for the rest of the
lesson.
On Tuesday we also went to an opera. (Well part of one anyway).
One of our investigators (Titusz) is an opera singer and really wanted
us to go. We weren't sure if that would be the most effective thing to
do with our time or if we were allowed to go but we promised him we
would try. We got permission to go during our dinner hour and so we got
to Rigoletto (the fist half). The opera was in an old opera house and
was sooo gorgeous!
Thursday, June 27 the zone leaders came from Zvolen (about one
hour away by train). We had district lunch, district meeting, and
(here's the good part) had a singing display!!! It was amazing!! So the 7
of us picked a spot on the Namestie and started singing hymns. There
were always at least 2 people contacting and the rest of us would sing. I
was a bit nervous...not about the singing, thats not really a big deal,
but about the contacting. The ZLs were going to contact with Sestra
Barid and I b/c we are new and I wasn't really looking forward to it.
Sadly, my language skills are still poor (but getting better, I hope!).
But the contacting was great! I was contacting with Elder Bateman and he
was really nice/awesome about it. Normally I'd start contacts and he'd
finish them or would bear my testimony about something whenever he told
me what was going on in the contacts. I absolutely LOVE singing
displays. Oh! another story from that day...I tried to contact a lady on
a bus and as soon as I said "missionarka" she very adamantly said "Nie, Nie, Nie." I figured okay if you
don't want to hear my message, the least I could do is practice my
language but when I said "Môžem" (may I ) she started in with "Nie, Nie ,
Nie" again so that was my fun bus contacting experience of the week. It
is really disappointing when they won't even give you a chance.
Friday, June 28, was also great! They were having a folkfest and I
went and bought some super yummy gingerbread treats and two egg
ornaments, which may have not been the best idea seeing as they are very
fragile. I will have to protect them for the the next 15 months!
Saturday June 29 was bitter sweet. It was President Irwins last
day. We were over at the branch presidents house for lunch and President
Irwin called us. He spoke to each of us and wished us well and
encouraged us. I really love him! He is so amazing and cares a lot for
each missionary in the mission. But I know President McConkie will be
awesome! That night we sent the new Prez a text to say hello and
welcome. We signed it "the Košice Sestry PBaJ." Also I really love
eating at the van Dalens house. We get such good food there! Sis van
Dalen made us fried cheese!! It was soo yummy! You take special cheese
(the kind that won't get all melty in the oil) bread it, and fry it.
Then you put tarter sauce on it and it tastes amazing!
Sunday, June 30 was beautiful. We had 2 investigators at church!!
This past week we hit standards in everything! A first for us (and
possibly our area). We taught triple the number of lessons than the
previous week. It is truly a miracle.
Love, Sestra Whitney Sarah <3
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