Well, it's the beginning of the last month today and that's quite a
milestone because I remember last year thinking that this entire next year I
will be on my mission and that this next year is going to be very very long and
that it was never going to end. Now, it's very close to the end of the year, not
to mention, this month will be going by faster than most because there are so
many things that are going on, such as transfers, Christmas, new year’s, Christmas training. There are a lot of events that are
happening this month, and I've always been afraid of Christmas and this last month because I know that after this
month the end is near and that it's going to sneak up on us. We're not going
to focus on that. We're just going to focus on the here and now. We're in the
last 2 weeks of the transfer and the last 2 weeks of Elder Dupre being in
Slovakia, which he's sad to see it go by. There is still plenty of time to be
a missionary and to find those which are elect and will come unto Christ. This
week though went by extremely quick but it was Great fun. We had a Great time
meeting with all of our investigators and we had Great and wonderful experiences
with them. I'm so excited for the work in Zilina because it's really being
hastened and the area is being built how the Lord wants it built and I only hope that
I can do everything that He wants me to accomplish here. It's been a pretty
full week and all that so I guess we should get going in what
happened.
This
week we had to plan a lot of things, we are having the Christmas party in Banska Bystrica in the coming week and
we're going to be starting Tithing Settlements, which | need to do this week and
probably more next week too. I will probably be down in Banska a little
early to do a tithing settlement for all of the members down there. We are also
planning a concert the day before so we're going to have a good time with that,
especially since we're only 4 guys, it's probably going to be rough. This week
we had a visit from the district and Brat Rezac came who is a high councilor
from Brno, I think he actually served his mission here and was one of the first
missionaries in Zilina because we have a paper that has a list of all the
missionaries that have served here and his name is on it but we're not entirely sure. He's quite old and has quite a big family and has a full head of gray hair, just
like Dad haha.
So for this week me and Elder Dupre made pumpkin pies for
everyone and let them go at iit. They were rather good if I say so. We have a
ton of them to make for ourselves because we have a ton of batter left over
because we bought too much pumpkin haha but that's okay. The funny story though
was we brought about 24 of them and we let everyone have one and then they told
us to have ours but we told them it's okay they can eat them. We have 40 or so at
home, and so they all ran up and took another one haha. Needless to say, they
went over very well haha.
This
week was a great week with our investigators we had 2 lessons with the family in
which we talked about prayer and then for the second one we talked about how it
sounds so easy to pray but really the easiest and most simple things are usually
the ones that work. They took that really well and the father told us that he knelt
down and felt that he should pray and read the Book of Mormon but then
didn't because he was really tired and didn't want to get up haha. That's really
funny and sounds like it's unfortunate but it's actually a wonderful thing
because that's progress from him, we felt for the longest time that he wasn't
very interested in what we were saying but then he comes with that and comes
with a huge changeup haha. That family is so great and we're so grateful that we
can teach them they are inviting us over to dinner before Elder Dupre leaves and
they're excited for it haha. We also had our lesson with our Norwegian
friend last week and he's doing great he reads every time that we come and
really likes our meetings, he says they're fun for him and that he really enjoys
our company and everything. He's quite the good reader and always reads a few
chapters before we come which is great, now we're just going to work with him on
praying consistently and help with that. We feel that he wants to believe but
it's hard for him to think that he can believe because he's so skeptical. I
think he has wonderful potential to be a Great member. We officially dropped our
JW friend, I'm not too broken up about it, I'm sad that he doesn't want to learn
but he gave me a lot of stress anxiety. We were able to pick up a previous
former as well this week and that was good for us he is very humble and very
willing but I'm not exactly sure where to go with him he reads and prays but
feels like the Book of Mormon is wrong, I don't know we'll see how long we keep
him going, I sure hope he feels the urge to change though.
Well
that's pretty much everything, thanks for all of your emails and supports and
keeping me in on everything that is happening. Congratulations to Richard on the
new baby, she's very cute, I wish you all the best and I wish the rest of you a
wonderful week and I also wish Dad a Happy Birthday, you're getting old :). I
love you all and hope you have a great and safe week.
Elder
Ferrell
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