Zvolen

it's a city just about a thirthy minute drive south of banska. a few of the members in the banska branch live down there and we have investigators down there too, so the missionaries in banska spend a decent amount of time down there. very soon, however, we will be spending even more time down there. it's been so hard keeping this in for the last few weeks, but now that i have approval from president we can tell everyone that.....(drumroll) we are starting a new branch in zvolen! yay! ok so here's the low down: there are a lot of investigators in the zvolen area who would be baptized, but just don't have the money to attend church in banska bystrica, so the zone leaders will be moving down to zvolen over the next little while. elder smith and i will still live in banska (in what used to be the zone leaders' place--it's a lot nicer so i'm pretty excited about that), but the presiding priesthood holder in this new unit of saints will be yours truly. we will have a full 3 hour block here in banska, but then after that in the afternoon we will also be holding a weekly sacrament meeting in zvolen for these investigators. since all of the people that will be participating in the sacrament meeting aren't members (yet) the band of people in zvolen will be not a ward, not a branch, not a unit, but a group. meaning that it will be "The Zvolen group of the Banska Bystrica unit of the Zilina branch of the Brno district of the Czech/Slovak mission." i'm going to have a hard time fitting all of that on the program. that thing has more layers than an expensive wedding cake. but all jokes aside, we are really excited. things are really looking good and so we really look forward to seeing the miracles that are going to be coming out of central slovakia for the next little while.

 

ahoj'te

sam