I have decided to start using more of my English vocab so if I say proper or right a ton, you'll just have to take it on the chin.
Well,
as the subject line tells us, this was a proper good week. We 'ad so
many fings just go right and we didn't 'af to do owt. While we were
cruisin' fru streets of Rovrum, we met some bloke named Ernest, raver we
met 'is wife. She were on 'er way to store and we asked if she could
cook us some Slovak food. She politely declined, but invited us over
anyway. We went on over and 'ad a good long chat wif Ernest. Me
companion and I found out that 'ee knew Elder Poho, 'oos me mission
grandad. 'Ees mostly blind, but 'ees a good geezer, 'im. 'Ee even wanted
to come to church wif us this week, which 'ee did. We are reyt excited
for 'im and we 'ope 'ee keeps up good work.
To
be honest, that is about all I can type out. It is right hard to think
about typing stuff out like that. If you just read it out loud, it all
makes sense and that is a pretty accurate description of some people's
accent here in Rotherham. Anyways, Ernest is a good guy and we are
excited.
We also met some old friends of Elder
Syndilek who is my mission great grandad. He is another Czech guy like
Elder Poho and we really like him. The people we met that know him are
pretty cool as well. It is a family that lives pretty far from the rest
of the people we teach and they don't live by other Slovaks. The walk is
worth it though. The mom, Kristina is a single mom with three kids,
Ramona, Dominika, and Dominik. They are all super nice and they made us
this strange Slovak food. I don't know exactly what it was. It looked
like a roll, but it was denser and had a tiny line of jelly-like stuff
injected. it was topped with oil and we think poppyseed and some brown
paste. It was an iteresting flavor combo, although Elder Armstrong is
not a fan and I am mostly indifferent. The first few bites I didn't
enjoy, but the last few were pretty decent. So I was always confused on
whether I liked it or not after eating one.
We
were able to see Julia enter into the waters of baptism this week and
that was special. (When I complained about lack of pictures, he finally sent these!) I did the baptizing and it was a fun night all around.
She invited a few of her friends that we had never met and they were
pretty cool. A few of them had grown up in Canada despite being
originally Czech and therefore spoke English fluently and had an accent
really similar to ours. It was strange to hear since any Slovak that
speaks English here usually has a proper British accent.
All is going well in Rotherham, miss you all, love you all, and hope you have a great week.
Elder Pace
Some extra tidbits I learned from him this week:
1. His suits are serving him well and he has no complaints.
2.
He is learning how to set boundaries for himself with technology. One
of his favorite guys over there, Alex, didn't set foot outside his house for an
entire year since he literally played games all day unless he was
eating (he was out of school so he wasn't even going there). Tyson said
they destroy him and sucks away his life which is sad to see. He does
not want technology to take over his life when he returns home (now
THAT'S my boy! )
3. He has become "quite a stickler
for cleaning the flat and I do a fair amount of cleaning in the free
time we have during the week". He said one of his greatest wishes at
the moment is to have "a nice quality vacuum, which is going to be
granted soon I hope".
4. I asked what he does to
handle mission stress and he told me cleaning has helped him and some
exercise and reading his patriarchal blessing and then saying a prayer
afterwards focusing on the things he is grateful for and writing at
night in his journal but then said "I am not a very stressed person most
of the time, so I don't need to get over stress very much."
(Pheww....that's always good to hear)
5. The new elders arrive March 14th and they will find out March 12th what the new arrangements will be.
6.
I asked him to explain his last email a little further on what has been
difficult for him to accept with the Slovak culture. He went into more
detail but in a nutshell he said it's the "laziness and the dishonesty
and the animosity (between each other)". Those qualities are opposite
of Tyson so I'm sure that has been an adjustment and why he was sent
there! It's easy to love those that are the same as you. A lot more
Christ-like and a lot more difficult to love those that aren't! And
every missionary seems to be sent where they will be tested!He sent these after I complained of no pictures....not exactly what I had in mind...he is not in sight at all! But this is Alex (the guy that lives by videos) giving his companion, Elder Armstrong a haircut and "their fearless Zone leader, Elder Stirling" :)
And thanks to Facebook here is a picture of I'm assuming their zone and I think Tyson is on back row next to red haired Elder Peck?
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