Week Sixty Something

Whats up!? 

This week, pretty much like nothing happened. We haven't been able to have a lesson in almost 2 weeks and our top investigator I'd pretty much just not responding to us at all. I never thought it could be so hard to find somebody to teach but oh man it's hard haha. Me and Elder Hinckley got to the area and thought it was going to take off. It's been about 3 years since this area has had a baptism and it was closed for the past couple months. It's just not going how we liked, but are praying that the next 5 weeks our area will change. We have some amazing members here tho. 
This week was full of finding on the streets, knocking doors, a couple DL things and a trip to znojmo. 
Znojmo is an area like an hour away and it was really pretty. It's really hard to get to, we actually got off on the wrong bus stop. We met some really cool people but one of them already blocked us and the other one won't respond, kind of sad. We had an awesome member meal with the peretsovi. They are from ukraine and moved here because of the war. They are hilarious. It's pretty much always the most awkard conversations ever with them, because we both have to speak our second languages. But they are so awesome and we had a great time. 
I've definitely learned a lot in this area and over the past several months. I feel like my faith has really been tried like crazy and satan is doing everything he can to stop us. My testimony has grown so much because of the countless amounts of times defending our beliefs. Pretty much 85% of the people here don't believe in God. I didn't even know that was possible before my mission, everybody I knew had some type of belief in God. But i truly know that God is our loving Heavenly Father and that we can grow closer to him every day by communicating with him through prayer and scriptures. No matter how much success I've seen in the work, my relationship with God and testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ have continued to grow. I think that the opposition I've faced has made it grow faster and become stronger. Even though it can be super difficult sometimes and honestly super boring doing the same things every day, im so grateful that I'm able to see the joy that comes from living the gospel and get to help others come to understand that as well. 
Love all of you and hope you have an awesome week!



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