Never Enough

this was a great week. i will start off right away by sharing the cool story that happened to us. elder romero and i were contacting on the town square on tuesday and we contacted a girl. we started talking and it turns out she is a slovak native who lives in idaho of all places. she knows quite a few mormons and was interested in learning more. we set up a meeting. before the meeting, she asked us if she could bring her cousin with her to the lesson. they both came and they both had a lot of questions for us. we answered all their questions and gave them books of mormon. we met with them again on satruday and had an even better meeting. they had many more questions for us. they are both really curious and really eager to find the truth. we read from the book of mormon and watched the joseph smith restoration short film with them. the spirit was really strong. silivia (the woman who was recently baptized here in zilina) was there to help us teach both lessons. after we watched the video, silvia (sounding like she had been a church member for most of her life) bore testimony of how she is just so much more happy now that she is a member of the church. she testfied of joseph smith and of the book of mormon and of prayer. with the influence of the spirit being so thick that you could cut it with a knife, elder romero simply said: "so, what do you need to do?" the response the girls gave was just as simple as the question: "read the book of mormon and ask God if it's true." it was fantastic. Majka is going back to idaho, but we gave her a firm commitment to contact the missionaries there. Eva, however, is still going to be here in zilina, and we are looking forward to teaching her again. it was a great week. i feel like we have really been rewarded for our patience and diligence. if there is one thing that i have learned so far in my nearly 6 months as a missionary (yikes!), it's that the Lord, as long as we're faithful, will never hang us out to dry. we had a great week, and i'm looking forward to this week. i shared the story with elder nichol (who is now a zone leader). we talked about what a great experience it was. after that he asked me a question. he said: "now you've just gotta do even more next week right?" i assented. his response: "yeah, it's never enough, is it, elder?" he was right.

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sam