Week 39: WotW: surprises 😮✨

 Hello, my dearest friends and family 🌞🏖

1. I have another companion, Sister B!!!(Sister Borgholthaus...but, she goes by Sister B) she served here for four months and had to return to the US for a bit and now she's BACK!!! She is amazing. Both Sister Zernzach and I feel really blessed.

2. God knows me and each one of us better than we can possibly imagine. 

3. We had a really big meeting (stake conference) this weekend. There is one stake in the Czech Republic and they announced that they have a stake goal to do everything possible to prepare the Czech Republic to have a temple in Prague. They are determined that President Nelson will announce a temple in April of 2025. During the whole conference members of the church talked about this. I felt as though I was standing on sacred ground. I've never had to work to live near a temple. I've never prayed and fasted and worked so that one would be built in my country. I love the temple with all of my heart and the people of the Czech Republic do, too. I can feel it. I can't wait to go back to the temple again, and again, and again, and again. I can't even EXPRESS to you how EXCITED I am to be a part of this goal. To bring the sacred temple covenants and blessings to the people of the Czech Republic. 

I love you 😊 please, go to the temple if you can. Or take time to remember the promises you've made with Heavenly Father there. Even better, both ☺ 

Let me know how you felt being there. I can't wait to go back. 

With all my love,

Sestra Call

Spring is HERE and I'm so happy about it. We were in an empty tram...pretty exciting actually. Sister B!! Adventures at a castle where we found a cool peacock!!!!

Week 38: WOTW Be Still

 Heeellooooo.

To start off I have some unfortunate news. 

I had a two year streak going of not having covid. 

And exactly a week ago today...my streak was lost.

I was actually a little disappointed, but, hey! Now I have antibodies for a few weeks so that's exciting!

As a result of my covid we were in quarantine the whole week and it was an awesome week. Here are some nice things that happened and things that I learned.

1. At the start of the week I told myself I was going to work like crazy and find even more people to teach than we would if we had a normal schedule and I wasn't going to slack a single moment and on and so on and so on. 

 1.a. Well, we spent hours each day doing Facebook work...and basically no one was interested the whole week. Ouch.

 1.b. what did I learn? My plans aren't God's plans and life is meant to be hard. If it went the way I wanted it to every time, I wouldn't learn anything. And it would be really boring.

 1.c. On Saturday and yesterday, the most random people wanted to call us. We hadn't even been chatting with them or really had any contact before our calls. And they were interested in learning more. I feel like it always happens like that🙃 God is very, very good to me.

2. Ok that was super long, but this one is that everything happens for a reason. Me and Sister Zernzach connected a lot this week. More than we have in a long time. We laughed a lot. We talked a lot. And I love her a lot😊 and we aren't even sick of each other yet. 

Tomorrow we emerge from the depths of quarantine and I'm excited. There are amazing things ahead. Sometimes the Lord gives me Covid so that I am still for a moment and I remember Him and learn some things He wants me to learn. 

As I was listening to general conference, I was so touched by how many times it was mentioned that we need to give our heart to the Savior. 

I am trying everyday to figure out what this means for me. Someone talks about the Savior and about all He's done and I can't even express in words how grateful I am and how badly I want Him to have my heart. I wish I could describe it better. It's just never enough. Nothing ever feels like it's enough after all He's done. 

But, I know our desires matter. And the effort we put forth each. day. matters. Maybe I let a lot of distractions get in the way all the time and maybe He doesn't have my whole heart yet. But, I know Jesus Christ knows my heart and sees what I want. And that's enough for now as I work closer to Him each day. 

I love you🌞😊 what do you feel in your heart? Deep questions, but they were on my mind😄

Have a wonderful week filled with moments of the sweetest, happiest joy!!

Love, Sestra Call

Our district brought us Indian food and a care package. They are sincerely, the best. 

We found a pretty, blossoming, springtime tree!!

My face when I found out my covid streak was gone.

Week 37 WOTW: the long road

 Ok, here is a little story for you all 🤗🌞💛

On Saturday we went to a hospital therapy place to visit one of our friends recovering there. It kind of sounded scary to me, but it was actually really beautiful out in the woods and pretty. We parked the car at this random spot next to the gate into the center and just walked right in easy-peezy. We finish our visit which was really wonderful and we're walking back to the car and the gate is closed. And locked. Now this whole therapy centered is locked in by stone wall so it's not really like we could just hop out. 

....

Anyways, we ask for directions from this nice guy who says that yes, the gate locks at a certain hour and is always closed after that. And we'll have to walk all the way to the front of the village place and around a side road to get to our car. Hmmmm.

So, we walk. And we get lost two more times before finally making it out of the center and walking all the way back to our car. 

When we finally reach our car, we look back at the little gate that had caused us so much grief: and it's wide open. 

😶

What did I learn from this? Well, to be honest I'm still thinking about the experience but what stood out to me was first, we were pretty frantic running around to find a way out and we said a rushed little prayer instead of stopping and pausing for an answer. Maybe if we had done that at the beginning we would've been inspired to check the little gate one more time 🤷‍♀️ and even if that wouldn't have been the case at all, we walked so far when access to what we wanted (little red car) was literally a few meters away. 

Do I feel like sometimes God has us take the long road? Yes. Do I feel like sometimes we take the long road because of our own choice and doing? Yes, absolutely.

I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only way back to live with our Heavenly Father again😊 it can feel like a long road sometimes, but it's worth every step. And in reality, it's the easiest road and the happiest one. 

This week was a little bit of a long road in general. But, I know it's worth it. I see little miracles every day when I look for them and that makes me so, so happy.

I love you all💛 I hope you find many moments of joy in your week.

Sestra Call

It's hard to tell but there's one picture showing the little gate from the car and the other one is showing the red car when I stood in the entrance of the gate :)

We grilled today for p-day, yum. Dad, they were nothing like your burgers, but for the Czech Republic, not bad. 

The weather has been soooo warm. I went tight-less for the first time since Hawaii this week😲😲