More pictures from the super cool hike last week, through an area called Adršpach -Teplice Rocks (pictures from Sestra Cyrier and Brad’s camera too)
Hello everyone! As you might have guessed from my
email title, I am having some trouble remembering what we did last week. But
here goes my best attempt:
- Monday we
went on that really cool hike with 2 members and an investigator. I will
sent some more pictures today. They are really cool rock formations and
some beautiful nature. It was really fun, with lots of good sites. I would
recommend it if you are planning a visit.
- Tuesday we
had some lessons. The main problem with early summer is that anyone you
are working with who is a student is probably going to leave...So our
investigator thanked us for the 2 lessons we've had, and said he'll let us
know in August when he gets back if he wants to hear more.
- D.
is not doing great, K. is doing better, and we have another meeting with
A. on Wednesday. We are going to skype with Russian speaking missionaries,
because his Czech is so-so.
- We
had an exchange with the other Elders in our district this past week. It
was really fun to get to spend the day with Elder Gubler. On that day we
ended up (do to some confusion and miscommunication) eating 2 lunches
within the period of 3 hours. I didn't need dinner that night, because I
was plenty full.
HK District
- Saturday Elder
Beazer woke up with a sore neck, which made things like driving and
walking rather interesting (he doesn't turn his head too much, so he looks
a bit like a robot)
- Yesterday
we met some cool people tracting, and decided we are only going to speak
Czech this week. Should be an adventure. No English. It will be hard, but
really good as well. I actually had a goal to read only in Czech last
week. It was really hard, but good.
We got caught in a torrential downpour on Tuesday. It went from cloudy and dry to
pouring rain in about 13 seconds. We took cover for a while until it let up enough
to walk back to safety and English class.
- Elder
Beazer and I get along really well. We like perfecting the art of
Bible-bashing (don't worry, we don't use our skills), discussing why the
doctrines of the church could fix all social issues in the world, and
trying to figure out how to do everything right as missionaries (that one
is still very much a work in progress).
- MLC
is tomorrow, and Karlstejn is Zone Conference for the month (annual celebration
of the day when Czechoslovakia was dedicated for missionary work, on July
24th, 1929). That will be next Friday.
- We
don't have AC. We have open windows and a fan! :D But I can't complain too
much, we don't have so many bugs that we have to sleep in mosquito
netting, so we can actually leave our windows open.
- We
get fed about once a week here in HK, which is a lot for our mission. We
mostly fix our own food. We have 30 minutes for lunch, so we eat
sandwiches every day. For dinner we do frozen pizza and spaghetti most
frequently. And Sunday nights we do Halušky with the other
Elders.
- Sounds
like an AWESOME high adventure Dad. I would have loved doing that. We got
to go hiking last week for the first time in forever, and it was a ton of
fun. I didn't realized how much I liked it until I hadn't done it for a
full year.
- Mom,
as far as Girls’ Camp, there actually is some kind of camp happening here
this summer for girls all over the country.
- From
Elder Belshe's blog: "Wednesday night to Thursday I had an
exchange with Elder Pickett! :D I love Elder Pickett! He is a great
example of love and diligence in missionary work, and I am very grateful
for the friendship that we have been able to develop as we served around
each other (he has followed me around his entire mission)."
For
a spiritual thought I want to talk a little bit about gratitude. During a
lesson this week we discussed with an investigator, who isn't a believer, the
power of gratitude. We talked about how gratitude really puts perspective on
life, and helps us realize what is really important and what isn't. It helps us
to know that we can be happy in all circumstances and we are very blessed to be
here. So I challenge you all to use the better perspective that gratitude can
give you to recognize how many great things you have in life.
Thanks for the support and prayers!
-Elder Pickett
More pictures from the super cool hike last week, through an area called
Adršpach -Teplice Rocks
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