This is a Missionary Blog by Elder Paxton who is called to serve in the Czech/Slovak Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Monday, February 22, 2016
Well things are finally starting to go better for us! We got two people on date for baptism, one is Nikolaj the guy from Ukraine. He has such a crazy story I might have already talked about it but I'll tell it again! He used to be a dang good sniper for Ukraine but finished his service and went back with his family but then the government kidnapped him and his brother and forced them to go to war again. While in war they were disarming some sort of bomb but it blew up and he watched his brother get blown to pieces and all of his friends die. He got sent to a hospital to have surgery but they screwed up so he is slowly losing all feeling in his leg. He escaped the hospital and came to the Czech Republic. But because he is illegal they force him to work 13 hours a day or else he gets sent back to Ukraine where they will find him and put him on the front line in war. So it really sucks but he has been doing a lot better since he's been meeting with us and wants to be baptized really bad! His date is next week because he has already been taught everything but we still don't know if he will make it or not because he has a hard time coming to church because of work. The other guy showed up to sports night on Saturday and we started talking to him and his friend. Morgan is the one that committed to baptism and he is from France, Michel is his friend from Greece but he didn't commit to baptism. So we finally hit standards and that is the first time in a long time Plzen has hit standards, and the first time it has been a greeny and a trainer!
This week I also had another exchange with Elder Beazer and for the first time we had nothing go wrong!! We even got two new investigators! So we celebrated by getting some pizza at our regular pizza place where the same waitress always serves us and thinks we are stupid because we don't speak very good so she will always ask if we want an English menu but we know how to read the normal one. And then we were on a small exchange on Saturday for a few hours and nothing went wrong on that one either! We have really improved!!
Other than that not much happened. Today we are going to Prague so I am excited to see some old castles! And this Saturday we find out what is happening for transfers and then Monday everyone goes to their new area! So we will see where I'm off to next or if I will stay!
I hope you all have a great week!
Elder Paxton
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