WEEK 33: Short and Sweet

This was a great week, but it will probably be a short email. One of our friends, named Julia, is excited to be working to baptism. She has been progressing tons. She reads the BoM and enjoys coming  to church.  She is looking for greater stability for her family as she is a single mom with a young boy. The gospel has been able to help her and we are excited.

We had lots of fun this week and I had the chance to go on exchange with Elder Peck.  That is always a great chance. He is so great and I always learn lots from him. Nothing super crazy happened this week on exchange, but I had a blast being with Elder Peck again. He also had the chance to translate sacrament meeting again. We are switching weeks so that our language and translating skills can improve and we can be ready for when the new Elders come in a few weeks.

Love you all,
Elder Pace

His answers to my questions....

 1. In a family history book, I imagine it being full of stories and pictures of everyone. We are planning on making our own Slovak genealogy for the mission. We only have a few lines to track, so we have much better records than everyone else. We are going to include how everyone is related, including adoptive fathers and than leave it in every Slovak flat to be remembered.

2. Yeah we do. We have tea with the Nettleships. This is the first time we have been there since Christmas. Our schedule and their schedule doesn't work as well together anymore so it has been hard.  Tea is the same thing as dinner just in case I forgot to clarify

3. (Regarding contacting the new elders coming in March) Yes we have, I email Niver's friend Elder Eberhard. He seems like a nice guy

4. (Regarding how often they meet with their mission president) We meet with him for interviews once a transfer period. This was a change from before as passed down from the first presidency. Any more than that is luck. We do see him at zone conferences, but it isn't personal interaction.

5. No more snow. The day we did have it, nothing stuck, it was just flakes. But I take what I can get

6. I think my favorite meal had been crepes with Nutella and fruit. I also enjoyed chicken croissants which I made and ate on Valentines Day to keep the tradition alive

7. I am fine. They have some stuff here that you can't get in America and vise versa. The American stuff over here is notably turned down in flavor though. Whenever we get actual American food, we have a good time getting used to the increased flavor. But we don't miss anything over here. Don't worry

8. Way more people take public transportation than in America, but there are still enough cars to cause some traffic issues. That may also be do to their road system. It makes no sense. They out traffic lights in the roundabouts which defeats the point of the roundabouts since it stops the glow of traffic.

9. Living in a rainy place hasn't gotten down on me. It just makes me appreciate the sun when it comes. I do prefer a bit dryer of an area since that would mean I don't need a raincoat all the time and the extra layer makes me pretty hot since I have a full suit underneath

10. (I asked what his companion's favorite treat was.) He says he loves ice cream

Love,
Starší Pace