Macneish & Meredith: Soul Hunters

i think that will be the name of the motion picture that will someday be made about this transfer (i'll tell you why near the end of this email). i guess i typed something wrong in my email last week because this week is actually the last week of the transfer. so, i'm still here in banska presiding over church, assigning talks and doing all of that fun stuff. we will get our transfer fax this coming monday and then the transfer will take place on wednesday. everybody is placing their bets and it's looking like i'm going to be saying dovidenia to slovensko and getting a nice "vitej" from the czech republic. we will see. regardless of where i go, it has been such a pleasure to serve in this city, in this district and in this zone, especially this transfer. missionary work in slovakia right now is better than it ever has been. EVER. like in the entire history of missionary work in slovakia. the zone leaders have been sending us texts every week telling us how we've been breaking old records and setting new ones every week. certainly numbers aren't everything, but it is quite the accomplishment. the mission office gathers statistics at the end of each week and the end of each transfer and compares the statistics between zones. this transfer it's going to be zona slovensko by a long shot. i think slovakia has finished first probably only one other time in the whole history of the mission. it has been so wonderful to work here with all of these wonderful members and missionaries. i will certainly miss it when i go. it has been really difficult at times here in banska, but it's all been worth it--particularly for kristina who is still doing wonderful after her baptism. we taught her this week about member-missionary work. at the beginning of the lesson we just asked her "why do you think we are here as missionaries?" she replied with the most gang-busters explanation of missionary work ever. she said "lovite dusicky" (you're hunting souls). yes we are kristina, yes we are--and what a wonderful calling it is.

 

ahoj'te

sam