September 15, 2014 - Bratislava

Ahoj!!

    This past week has flown by. I think it's rained every single day this past week (wait, minus Tuesday-that day the weather was excellent). And it goes from clear-ish skies to down pouring in a matter of seconds. Really! The rain is not a lot of fun when the bottom half of your skirt is soaking wet but I agree with something Elder Christensen said--Slovaks are happier when it rains.

Anywho we met a lot of really cool people this past week...

We met with a member from Croatia. She lives here because of her husband's work. She normally travels to Croatia to go to church because it's close and she wants to support the branch there. She's soooo nice and very generous. While we were visiting her we started talking about music and she loaned me some piano music. We are really glad she's here too because we're getting a senior couple soon. She has a pretty open schedule and speaks excellent English so she'll be very helpful introducing the senior couple to Bratislava. 

We had a lesson with a bookstore owner. Sister Baird and I contacted him on exchanges and he said we could bring a KM [Book of Mormon] to him. He's super nice and told us we could return to start teaching him. He has a lot of potential plus his store isn't open on Sundays so he'll be able to come to church! :) We're really excited for this coming week. He also gave me a fairytale book in Slovak as an "exchange" for the Book of Mormon! [editor's note: Sister Johnson LOVES books.]

Sister Wilson and I also visited a less active member.  She's very sweet and has a good heart.  It was a great meeting-we found out a little more about where she's at doctrinally. As we were leaving she handed us a bag filled with apples, bread and cake for the "boys" (our elders).

A few things we did this week:

Our district had interviews with Prezident McConkie (except for me :(.   I only get a departing interview this transfer. He was in town interviewing a few potential missionaries from our branch and to set apart Bajo from Zilina who left on his mission to Germany.

We did service at the Red Cross. We worked with mentally handicap adults and sang for them and chatted with them. We'll be going back in a few weeks.

We had lunch with the branch prezident and family. We were going to serve them and do some yard work but surprise, surprise, we got rained out. They still asked us to come over for lunch though and it was amazing! They are wonderful people-so nice and try to assist us in our work. 

Our concert is getting closer and closer. It's going to be really cool if it all comes together in time! It will be fine but we're just trying to coordinate with members now. 

Next week is conference in Kosice and I'm so stoked! And this week we've lots going for us so I'll let you know how it goes next week! I love you all! 

S Laskou,

Sestra WhitneySarah Johnson <3