Hello everyone, we have been super duper busy this week it's been
crazy. We've just been running around doing tons of work, going to Prague and
back and just trying to go as hard as possible, and we've been doing it. As far
as some initial things. The Surgery that I'm having is on Wednesday morning at 7:30 in the morning
here. So it is around midnight for you all, but it's okay. President is coming
down tomorrow night to give me a
blessing and he'll stay with me for the day, probably. I'm not too worried about
it, it's pretty minor. The name of the hospital is Medissimo, it's in
Peterzalka, which is actually across the river, in the concrete jungle of
Bratislava. It's really nice and very American-like. The main Doctor there is
Paul Hnilica and he speaks english and it's basically his hospital. He's really
funny because he is massive, like 6"9, and balding and says he's American. He's
obviously not, and his real name is Pavol, he studied in America, in Michigan, and
has tons of stuff from there. It's really funny because with all of his cards he
pulls one out for you crosses out the name Pavol and writes Paul which is the
American equivalent and then gives it to you. He likes to be called Dr. Paul
from all the staff and stuff like that and a lot of times he just gets up and
goes to America for a few weeks every now and then. He's really just an awkward
funny person. So that's all the information on it, I'll be able to leave that day
and the surgery should only be 30 minutes to an hour and then i'll be asleep
they said for around 3 and half hours. I'll be there and then I'll be able to go
home. And with President down here we're going to try to take the chance to have
him drive us back to Prague, because we need to pick up Elder Boysen's drivers
license and then we'll be able to drive to exchanges maybe. I'm also working on
my application to drive right now and I hope to input it to the office this
coming week so that I'll be able to pick it up sometime this or next month
because Elder Boysen doesn't want to drive the whole time by himself haha.
This week me and ELder Boysen have been putting the pedal to the metal and
just going as hard and fast as our bodies will allow. We made a goal to get 14
lessons and 30 potentials, IE, numbers. We wound up getting 13 lessons and 40
numbers which is simply amazing because the average companionship gets 50
numbers a transfer. Our goal is to get 25 numbers a week and over 200 numbers by
the end of the transfer. We also want to be teaching 21 lessons, which is the goal
standard for the czech republic, 14 for Slovakia, in 3 weeks from the beginning
of the transfer. I think it is 100% possible and I'm stoked about it. We already
hit 13 where as last week we were barely hitting like 5 lessons in a week. So
yeah we've turned it up a notch because Slovakia needs a huge example and to see
that it is possible to be teaching 21 lessons and be getting tons of numbers. We
know it's possible and we're just trying to prove it. We've been working hard
and Elder Boysen and I are exhausted after the week but we're going to keep
going tomorrow and the rest of the
transfer. So that we can really be that example that President wants us to
be. Elder Boysen is massive he's 6"7 and is a contacting fiend and he's really
funny. and the reason that me and him are together is because Elder Boysen likes
to contact and I like to contact but the majority of people don't like doing it,
so our job to help people learn how to contact because we can see that if we're
getting numbers and we're getting new investigators then we are teaching more
lessons and the baptisms will follow, so we know it's possible to have that amount
of success that the Czech republic has in Slovakia. We just need to learn how to
do it. The most a companionship got as far as numbers wise is 200 and it's Elder
Boysen's mission to beat that number haha and we're on our way.
On the way to that goal we had a really cool miracle that we were able to
experience, it was Sunday and it
was General Conference weekend this week for the Slovak people so as far as
Saturday goes we were very busy
and we wern't ab le to get a single number which is fine because monday through thursday we were able to get 35 so we figured that we could
got o prague and then saturday and
sunday we would easily be able to
get 40 numbers. But we wound up teaching a spontaneous lesson on Saturday instead of fidning and getting
a lesson so we were left to do it Sunday where as we had around 4 hours to do so. A piece a
cake we thought because the previous days we had been getting roughyl 2 numbers
or more per hour of contacting so 5 would be easy. We contact and around 3 hours
in we got our first number but were still 4 numbers away, we then got a second
another hour later. It was already 730 and time to go home and eat dinner, and
we were deciding on whether to go home and eat Halusky or try for the last 3
numbers we were kind of down and not expecting to get those numbers and just
resolve with 37 but we decided to go up the hill one last time. We went up it
and were able to get the last 3 numbers while only talking to 5 people and we
walked back down the hill victorius. We went home, we ate a quick dinner while
we planned. So we have been immensely blessed this week and just wanted to share
with you that little miracle in our lives, I love this work.
Other than that, I don't have much else, me and Elder Boysen are going to
go home and sleep because we're tired haha, I'm so happy that I have this
oppurtunity to work with Elder Boysen because he's going to help me so much to
become the kind of missionary that I want to be. I see so much more is possible
now that I'm with him and see the kind of effort that I need to put in if I want
the success that I'm expecting, we don't need to kill ourselves but we have to
work hard, and hard work only comes when we put our minds to the task and push
forward, not stopping to enjoy the sunshine, not stopping to enjoy the flowers
by the road but by pushing forward until the work is done and it's time to go
home. Thank you so much for your support and your love, I love you all, have a
safe and awesome week!
Elder Ferrell
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