A slovak fiesta

this week was pretty solid. it was pretty simple. we went out and we worked. when we worked, we worked hard. because we worked hard we were rewarded. we were able to find a lot of new potential investigators, which i am very excited about. we are already harvesting the fruits of our diligent labors from last week. we just met with one of those potentials right before i came to the internet cafe. we gave him a book of mormon to read and he is very interested and curious. we asked him if he would pray to gain a testimony of the book of mormon. he said that he needs to read a little bit first before he can decide if it's something that is right for him. i promised him that if he read sincerely, he would quickly find out that the book of mormon is the book for him. i'm really excited for this week. we got some good things set up last week, and i think we are going to have a lot of opportunities to teach this week, which i'm really excited for. i'm really sad that we haven't had as much of a chance to teach this transfer. i've always thought that elder romero and i were a pretty good teaching tandom and i think we are finally going to be able to put that harmony into a little more practice this next week. we also got to do a few fun things this week. on friday, for example, elder romero and i went to the house of the big member family here in zilina to cook them some mexican food. they benevolently call elder romero either mexican, or mexico, even though elder romero has never even been to mexico. from the first week of the transfer, they were begging elder romero to come and cook enchiladas for them. on friday we finally had the chance. i think the chimichangas we made were pretty good. on saturday, we had our branch vylet (trip) with all of the members from both zilina and banska bystrica. we went to blatnice where there are beautiful caves and also a castle. it was a great trip. it was a lot of fun to get out and see some of the beautiful nature around here. mostly, it was great to be able to spend some time with the great members that we have here. i have made some really great friends over the last few months, and i'm so grateful that i have been able to serve the last four months in this wonderful branch. all the members here are so fun to be around, and they are all such great examples of disciples of Jesus Christ. transfers this time around are on a saturday. a week from thursday we found out where we are headed. the widely held belief is that i am headed to trencin to train. i would be glad to do that (although nobody knows anything about transfers yet), but i was also thinking on saturday as i was sitting roasting a sausage over the fire, that i sure do like zilina. it will be hard to leave this city, but that's nothing compared to how hard it's going to be to leave slovakia in a year and a half.

s laskou
sam