Week 6 in Plzen

This was definitely the craziest week of my mission!
One really cool thing that happened was on Tuesday we were teaching our English class and at the end we showed the Thanks to Him video and gave our testimonies on that, the spirit was so strong so we asked if we had any volunteers to say the closing prayer. This old man named Vratislav, that has been coming to our class ever since before I got here but hasn't shown any interest in the gospel, volunteered and said the closing prayer! It was a really cool experience to see how our testimonies can really help people to feel the spirit and sometimes it takes longer for others to recognize it but Vratislav finally recognized the spirit and we are hoping to meet with him again tomorrow!
Then where it got really crazy, My companion had MLC in Prague so Elder Beazer and I were together again for the day. We had on plan to go to Koloman's house, he is a less active member, because he needed a blessing. Right before my companion leaves he says "Don't miss the train cause the next one doesn't come for another hour." We were like don't worry we won't miss it!! But we missed it! So we call Koloman because he was supposed to be waiting at the train station for us to get there and we tell him we missed the train. Luckily he said he would wait for us to get on the next one. So finally we get on the train and when we get off the train we look around and there is literally nothing around us and Koloman isn't there. We were like crap we got off one stop too early so we start sprinting on the train tracks to get to the next stop and after a long time of running we get this call from Koloman asking where we were cause he didn't see us get off the train. We told him we were sprinting and we should be there soon but he was like No please get off the tracks and go back to the train station. But we couldn't really understand him because neither of us speak good Czech so we thought he was going to meet us back at the last train station so we start sprinting back so that we will be there when he gets there. We finally make it back to the train station but he wasn't there. Then we get a call from the branch president telling us that we need to wait for the next train and go back to Plzen. So we were like crap Elder Needham is going to kill us because first off he told us not to miss the train but now we aren't even going to give Koloman his blessing! So we are just sitting at the train station freezing because we just ran forever in our big coats so we got super sweaty and then it started snowing so we were freezing and super disappointed! Plus we had another lesson planned with Daša but there was no way would were gonna make it back in time! But we texted Koloman and said so we aren't coming to meet you anymore? And he text us back but we couldn't understand it but all of the sudden the train pulls up and there is Koloman! He said he would come back with us to Plzen and we could just give him the blessing at the church! So we taught a dang good lesson then gave him a blessing!! And luckily Daša said she could move the lesson back an hour so we made it to that on time!
So then I thought dang this day couldn't get any crazier but I was wrong. After our lesson with Daša I had to go with Elder Hymas, also new, back to Slovany to meet up with my companion. We got on a bus but after a while we were like dang this has been a really long bus ride and nothing looks familiar, are we going the right way? But we just figured oh it will look familiar once we get to the right stop. Then all of the sudden I look out the window and see Globus, this building that is super far away from our city and I only see it when we go and do service for this member that lives far away and we usually have to take a car to get out there cause only a few buses go out there like 2 times a day! So we hopped off the bus and went searching for a way back home! Finally we found another bus and made it home!
Then the next day we ran into Nikolaj, one of our investigators that we haven't been able to get in contact with because he doesn't have a working phone anymore. So we talked with him and found out that he was going to the hospital because he doesn't have feeling in his leg anymore because when he was in the war a grenade blew up next to him so they took him to a hospital but they messed up so now he just slowly keeps losing feeling in his leg. So the next day we went to the hospital to find him but we never could find him cause their hospitals here are crazy. People are just walking around with all this bloody bandages and open wounds and the doctors start bringing out this guy on a table that is almost dying and they act like it is no big deal! They have no privacy what so ever in their hospitals and just bring injured people that they picked up off the street right through the visiting area. It was pretty crazy!
And tonight Elder Beazer and I will be on exchanges again so hopefully we won't get lost anywhere this time! But it has been a great week! I hope you are all doing well!

Starší Paxton Elder Beazer and I on the train tracks