Crazy Week

SO, weird week we are emailing on a Tuesday after we had a St. Wenceslas

Day yesterday where I think there may have been 8 people in the center of

town that morning. Czechs také their holidays super relaxed which I think

is awesome. Lots of places were closed, including all the tourist places we

could visit, and so after studies and cleaning and other prep day

activities, we made a movie to help promote General Conference in the

upcoming 2 weeks(it happens a week later here so that it can be translated

into Czech.)  Unfortunately, unlike other districts, we only have one tv

in our church building so we will be watching it in Czech rather than

English. (I won't understand vůbec, but that's ok :) The video took us most

of the day, but it turned out fantastic! We are using it during building

tours to promote our upcoming lecture. This Saturday we have a lecture

about Introduction to Mormonism as a combined member and missionary finding

activity. It happens once a transfer, and we made this video of the

highlights of last general conference! I am excited to see if it is able to

bring others to come and see it. I will make sure to mention how it goes

next week!

This week we had a training in Prague with the Mission President conducted

by the zone leaders, and in it we were able to learn about talking baptism

early and often with our investigators using baptismal calendars to give

them something they can use to remind them day to day what they need! It

was great! We practiced how to introduce baptism even in the first contact

with the people we meet on the street! President bore his testimony at the

end about the importance of loving the people, and it touched everyone in

the room. Such a great training! We get to have one every month, this time

it was small with just our zone, but normally it will be combined into two

zones.

As far as the work this week, we still haven't been able to maintain any

appointments with investigators or our potentials we find through the week,

but we also found 2 new families and a couple of new investigators this

week that are YSA age which is what this branch really needs to build and

grow!

My thought this week is about prayer: I was reading in preparation for a

lesson and found a favorite Scipture Mastery scirpture 2 Nep 32:8-9 in

reading that scripture I found something I hadn't caught before when I read

it. In verse 8 it reads that Satan wanted them not to pray, and tried to

convince them that they should not pray. I have thought about all the times

that I have felt unworthy or too tired or too busy to pray, and have

realized that it is Satan's tool to take away one of our most powerful ways of

revelation and peace. Never let Satan convince you that you are unworthy to

pray! We are always worthy to pray, and Heavenly Father always wants to

hear from us! No matter where we are! Pray always! And feel the peace and

love that comes from prayer! Thanks for all the prayers and letters of

support and concern!

Elder Belshe