August 20, 2012:
When we use time wisely, it’s like putting big rocks in a pot first…
Boy, is time just flying. I feel like August just started. This week... man, I don't even know. It's funny, because the Elders even said this morning that the longer you’re out, the less you know what to write about, because it all just becomes your life. But I know it's really fun to read, so I shall start to divulge.
When we use time wisely, it’s like putting big rocks in a pot first…
Boy, is time just flying. I feel like August just started. This week... man, I don't even know. It's funny, because the Elders even said this morning that the longer you’re out, the less you know what to write about, because it all just becomes your life. But I know it's really fun to read, so I shall start to divulge.
I guess we did have one adventure this week that seriously feels like five years ago. Last Tuesday we were walking home, and it was almost 9 pm, and we had yet to have dinner, when I heard a meowing in the bushes. I had seen a kitten behind the fence there a few days before that, so I went to look. It was dark, but I found it, and it looked REALLY hungry, and it was in the same spot, and its leg was hurting a little, you could tell. So I told Sister Pysnakova we had to catch it, because it was going to die. So we went home (it was right by the apartment) and got a towel, some milk, some bread, and some meat. We walked outside and Sister P was a little scared, but thanks to all my animal catching skills, I was able to lure it out enough to catch it with my towel, although it took a try or two.
It was hissing and not very happy, but we took it into the apartment and put it into our shower, hahaha. And in the white handbook it says we cannot have pets of any kind, but what are we supposed to do when a kitten is dying?
So I called President and explained the situation, and he thought it was hilarious as usual but told us we can’t keep it. I told him that we'd try to pawn it off onto one of our investigators the next morning, and he said that we should also take it around as a door approach, "Hi, is this your cat? Oh, it's not? Well, do you want it? No? Ok, well we are here as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ..." Bahahaha, oh President. So we settled it into bed amidst the hissing and the angry cat scowls, and I promptly named it Kisu. I figured that was appropriate. Mother knows why. We called [our investigator] and he said, "Ok Sisters, I will watch it for you, but I will put it back outside to fend for itself once it feels better.” And we said, “Fine.” Hahah, it was so funny.
So we agreed to go to [his home] the next morning at 6:30 am during exercise time and take the kitten. We took it in a laundry hamper with an old sheet on the bottom. So [the investigator] and his daughter took care of it all day. We called sister Dobiasova about it, and she agreed to take it in. I thought she'd just take it for a little while, since [our investigator] only wanted it for a day, but she got really excited about it and went and bought all this stuff for it!
So we agreed for everyone to meet up at English [class] that evening for the pass-off. [Our investigator] brought the cat, and [his daughter] had totally tamed the thing, and sister Dobiasova was really excited, hahahah, oh gosh. And now it's at the vet. I called sister Dobiasova and asked how her day was going. Hahah, so funny. But she said it's a naughty little thing and digs up all of her flowers. Oh and it's new name is MIA. So that was an adventure :).
All week we were really trying hard to help our investigators. I prayed really hard, and I told Heavenly Father we needed a miracle. The miracle came. On Sunday, we had 6 of our beautiful investigators, even some who weren’t current investigators, come to Church. I had texted all of them the night before, except for [one] who texted and asked if he could come, and they came. And it was SO WONDERFUL. It was 6 investigators and 4 members at Church. Not too often that happens :). It was so great.
Oh, and I had a talk in Church, oh kill me, I was so not excited. I speak terrible Slovak, but I got the point across, and everyone loved it, because I didn’t know the word for pot or sand or rocks, and I was trying to explain that when we use our time wisely, we put the big rocks in first and then the sand fits, but when we put the sand first the rocks don’t fit like Scripture study etc. Hahah, oh gosh. And then I gave it a second time in Zvolen.
Oh hurray, this week we were in Zvolen to get it going, and we have all been praying for a new building in Zvolen, because they don’t have one as of yet, and we rent random rooms across the city in various buildings for Church, and it’s ridiculous to try and get the Church started in that situation, so anyway we were on the ‘nameste’ and they had found two buildings for rent, but they look like.... run down cult places, and no real estate agent had said anything about this green beautiful bright building that we were staring at for rent right on the ‘nameste.’
So I hurried the Elders and told them to call the lady ASAP, and she came, and we looked at it, and it is perfect... and the guy from Germany is coming to approve it this week! Ah, the work goes forward.
Gotta run
Love you,
Sestra Izattova
Gotta run
Love you,
Sestra Izattova