April 18, 2016 -- " I love these people!"

We had quite a few new investigators show up to their lessons this week, I am guessing thanks to the mission fast. I am so grateful for fasting and the extra

spiritual power it gives to missionary work or to anything in our life. 

We had a lesson with Dasa.  She is a investigator who we met during Family History contacting (which is actually really effective). She said she would be more interested in learning about God and our beliefs than family history. We had a lesson with her in Tuesday and brought a member Sestra Jakobikova. They were perfect for each other! They were around the same age and really could connect. Sestra Jakobikova shared how she was the same as Dasa, but how she found the Church and her life has been better ever since. We hope to meet with her again.

Also we met with Radim and Sestra Krasova. Radim we found during a building tour, and he was interested in the Book of Mormon. Our lesson was just brief with him, but it also went pretty well. We committed him to read the Book of Mormon and pray and ask God if it was true. 

Veronika: we had a lesson with her on Wednesday, and it was on the Atonement. We asked if she still wanted to be baptized, but she didn't want to set a date on it. We shared our testimony of the Atonement and that it works and that God will answer our prayers when we put in the effort. She asked if we could give her a chapter to read because she is stuck in 2 Nephi. We gave her 3 Nephi 11 when Christ comes to the people in America and more or less puts everyone on a baptismal date. 

We visited the Trebic branch this past Sunday and some of the members we

have never visited before. It is always such a spiritual time when we hear member conversion stories, and it gives us hope and a spirit of wanting to be better and to find more solid people! The members in the Czech Republic are some of the best people I know! I love these people! We are still working on bringing people to baptism and we know it is possible through our Savior Jesus Christ.

I found this--Elder Nash Stegner wrote this on Lds.org. It was so great; also here is the address: http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/elder-nash-stegner-symposium.

There is a spirit among the trees—are they not living souls?  And, even more so

for me above the timberline, amongst the mountain tops, where I feel a closeness to God.  I love to sit or stand under the sky where heaven and earth meet, the high alpine peaks around me and to gaze at the stars at night, trying—always unsuccessfully—to wrap my mind around the eternity within my gaze, an eternity of both time and space (imagine, for example, the hundreds, or millions of light years it took for some of the light of the stars to reach this earth). Yet, I always marvel at the quiet knowledge that settles upon me in those solitary moments of tranquility that, despite the vastness of the cosmos, the Lord of the universe knows puny me. And He knows you, and each of His children. This creation, every aspect of it, was created for the purpose of giving each of us the opportunity to be blessed now and in eternity.  This creation witnesses of the Creator, and if we preserve these special places in their unspoiled state, they will silently, eloquently witness of our God and inspire us onward and upward. 

This earth is provided to help each of us to return to Him, having grown through testing and experience to become more like Him, and enjoy eternal felicity with Him. Our test on this earth is whether we will choose wisely and follow God, treat His creations with respect, and use them to bless our fellow man and woman.  The better we care for this world and all in it, the better it will sustain, inspire, strengthen, enliven, and gladden our hearts and spirits—and prepare us to dwell with our Heavenly Father with our families in a Celestial sphere, which members of the LDS Church believe will be the very earth upon which we stand today, but in a glorified state.



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Save the Trees and Pray Always

Sestra Baxter