Elder Brad Pickett: Zlin Questions and Answers

The Czech Fall is incredible. I can't fully do it justice with a camera, but it is beautiful.

Not a lot of time and we had some technical difficulties here, so I will be brief, but informative.

Training is going well. Elder Schmutz is doing good with stuff. Slowly but surely learning Czech, and everything else. Best thing about training is probably having a cool greenie to train, and getting to remember my early days, and also getting to show him how awesome Czech culture is and get him to try new things for the first time. I have never trained before, and I don't really remember how long it was until I started understanding stuff.
Zlín. It is an interesting city. It's weird being alone in a city (meaning only one companionship of missionaries). I am not used to it at all. It feels like more of a thing here that people know the missionaries, because there have been missionaries here non-stop for the last 20 plus years. We still meet people who don't know us, a few every day usually, but there are a lot of people who reject us right when we start talking to them, because they already know who we are and don't have interest.

Some food that a member made for us when we went to visit her and

show her General Conference.

We have had a few good contacts with people, but nothing has come of it. This transfer has been really rough, we actually still have yet to find a single new investigator(someone who gives us a name, sets up a return appointment, and gives us a contact) , and I don't know why. But we will see what happens. We saw P. two weeks ago on Monday and talked with him a little bit, but he is not looking to continue yet.
We do a lot of walking, and take the bus to UH (where the church building is and the other 4 missionaries in the District). The bus station is a 5-10 minute walk from our apartment. There is only a metro in Prague in the Czech Republic. We don't do a whole ton of tracting (door to door contacting) in our mission in general. We are mostly street contacting. We do some bus contacting as well. We also draw on the ground and do chalk displays.
The district is doing awesome and Elder Raines is doing a great job training. Elder Schmutz and Elder Jarvis are doing well. Hardest part of being new missionaries is that they don't really know what's going on most of the time. But they are learning all the time.

The Elders doing some service for a woman whose house burnt down a few months ago

For exercise we do some running, some inside stuff, a little bit of everything. I haven't learned how to cook a whole ton of things on my mission. Cooking food just hasn't been a big enough priority.
And the pictures from last week are from our service in the forest with Brother Kvasnička. We are helping him to build a fence. We roast špekačky over a fire for lunch. And sometimes hunt for mushrooms if they are around.