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| Together during 1st transfer in Slovakia with trainer. |
So I'm still in
my beautiful city of Zilina!! And my new comp is....SISTER BAIRD!! I'm
super stoked, we were trained together and now we're together again!!
It's going to be awesome and even though I'll miss Sister Krauel
bunches, Zilina really needs Sister Barid. She acts with such love and
is just an amazing missionary! Elder Clark stayed here and Elder Garlick
came from Nitra.
Anyway this past week
was a little crazy. It flew by and we accomplished lots. We've been
planning some activities to do in this new transfer. In February,
we'll have a giant FHE [Family Home Evening**] with all of Zilina (or at least that's the plan)
and then in March we'll have a "Meet the Mormons." We've started
planning, prepping, and advertising for it. Now that transfers have
happened we'll fill everyone in and get to work!
I love transfer because
it's a new take on everything. Sometimes it's hard when missionaries
leave or when things change but it okay because it's life. Honestly,
it's sort of Heavenly Father's plan...this is progression! We have the
ability right now to start over with a clean slate, to improve
ourselves, and more importantly, improve the area! This transfer is
going to be wonderful and I'm really excited to see how everything plays
out. It's crazy to think of how short 9 weeks is. I always feel like
it's such a long time but in reality the weeks fly. This is one reason
we're admonished to serve with all our heart, might, mind, and soul. I
often think of the phrase "complacency kills". If we grow lazy or lax in
our labor, we'll will not reach our potential as missionaries nor will
we help those we've been sent here to help. I love beginnings, sometimes
they're bittersweet but they always help us to grow and learn. I'm glad
to be starting this new transfer here in Zilina with a new companion, a
new district. We've been given so much information and advice in the
previous trainings and now the only thing to do is to go and work. We
raise our vision, we grow in faith, and we serve. It's a wonderful part
of our Father's plan...we continue to improve. We continue to give all
of our efforts. It's cool how this knowledge is so simple and so easy
really but it's something that will never grow old or boring. It will
just always exist and we'll always be able to grow.
A few good things from this past week:
We have a new investigator. His name is P'o and he's 17. We've only met with him once but we have a meeting again tomorrow and he's already read in the Book Of Mormon some!
Sister Krauel and I celebrated the transfer by having halusky twice
this week. And even better it was home made! We may have made way too
much and almost ate ourselves sick. But it was so worth it. It was
delicious!
More news this week...I
don't have Tibor anymore. I have a guitar now. Sooooo here's what
happened, Elder Hammond decided he didn't want his anymore and it's a
beautiful instrument (made here and everything) so I sold Tibor to
another missionary and bought Elder Hammond's guitar. It's different than the
ukulele but not too terribly hard.
I'm sure I'll have great things to tell you next week so until then I love you!!
S Laskou,
Sestra Whitney Sarah Johnson<3
**Family Home Evening: Follow this link to learn how to hold your own family home evening. This site has many resources to help you draw closer to your family.
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