Church

it's the most amazing thing. i think one of the biggest and most important things that i am going to take away from my service as a missionary is a greater appreciation for the sabbath day (and a greater feeling of guilt and shame for days of old when i had to be dragged kicking and screaming just to get me to go to sacrament meeting). how wonderful an opportunity it is to e able to take one day every week to concentrate on spiritual things and worship the Lord with other people who have the same beliefs and values that you do. i have been so blessed over the last five months to be the priesthood holder in this city who presides over that process. we had a great fast and testimony meeting this week. the branches out here may be small, but the testimonies here are as powerful as anywhere else. after that we quickly hopped in the car and drove down to zvolen. some of the investigators that the zone leaders have down in zvolen needed help getting to church, so elder romero and i drove out to the village where they live, sprinted to flag down the bus and got him to hold on for a few seconds while the investigators were getting out the door. it wasn't easy, but we got everyone to church, and we had a wonderful sacrament meeting in zvolen as well. what an opportunity it is to be the person that brings the church to these people for the first time. what a blessing it is to be able to give these people their first experiences with the sacrament. being a missionary in slovakia brings so many blessings and miracles every day. as we were walking through the town after church we were all musing about the day when there will be stakes here-- when all of these people will get up in fast and testimony meeting and talk about how many miracles the Lord has worked since those days when the missionaries traveled into a far-away village and ran down the bus just so they could help people come to church. to make a long story short i love my mission!

 

s laskou

sam

 

ps- score two "steve meredith" points for using the phrase: "to make a long story short."