Week 12 in Brno

This week was an interesting week! Tuesday we were back at it.. HARD. It sent my companion back into sickness and by Thursday we had to stay home again but we had some good things this week! We found out that our district is doing a special musical number at mission conference this week. IT will be on Karlstejn which is where the church was set apart for the preaching of the gospel. When they did that they said that it is a natural temple and has the same feeling. The temple has been on my mind a lot recently and wish i could go there. We are excited to get to go to the natural one.. The song.. WE will see.

We had a man on baptismal date for this Saturday. HE is doing well and finally prayed with us but won't make it for this Saturday. Hopefully soon though! We started sports night this week which was a blast! We have a small playing field at the church building and we played floor ball which is my new favorite sport. We are actually going to go play baseball and floor ball tonight before we have FHE! Should be fun! This week we met a funny guy. He was speaking English and reading harry potter. HE invited us to read with him. We said we could help him if we shared a thought. He ended up having a ton of questions abut the restoration which was really cool!

The ward here is so fun and we had a great Sunday! Visted some members and went tracting! A few other highlights from the week was when my companion was sick i skinnied some ties. They now look pretty nice instead of being really fat! We had some other cool things but not too much time today! This week should be a good one! Love you all!



Our investigator drew the plan of salvation



My sewing project.



My companion -- not feeling too great.

Week 11 in BRNO

This week was a long week but a good one! Transfers were last Monday and elder smith arrived. WE had a fun independence day meal at home and got to work on Tuesday.   A recent convert from Prague who i know was here and we had a fun lesson with him, it was good to see him again and also did a singing display.  Elder smith plays the guitar really well so that is fun!

Then we headed to jihlava to do a baptismal interview. IT was a guy i had contacted with elder cook last transfer on an exchange. Pretty cool! Wednesday we had a little time in the morning to go contact. We got to a park and this guy was running... I forgot to mention that elder Smith really likes to run so we have been running a lot. But we got there and we took off with this guy running for about 15 minutes, about 3 km and taught him a lesson. IT was pretty cool! and fun! we were worn out after our 5k run in the morning too. 

This week we have only been speaking Czech which has been fun! It has been a good change. I am used to driving again after heading to Prague on Thursday. We had MLC which was good to be with president Pohorelicky a little more! Here in Brno everything works which has been really cool. WE had a really good correlation meeting which was awesome! Friday we had a good day but My one companion elder smith started to not feel well. We had sports night and he was really down. after we went home and he slept from 8:30 until 4 on Saturday and woke up pretty sick. He was feeling well enough to go to the baptism for the sisters here in Brno but we came home right after and then our mission president had us go to the hospital. We got home Saturday night about 12:15 in the morning and got some medicine for him. We were home all of Sunday and he is slowly recovering today. It was a long weekend. Got a lot of different things done though. Not the most fun though. Other than that just hoping to be all well tomorrow and hit it hard this week! Love hearing from you! Have a good week.

Week 10 in BRNO

The last week of the transfer is always busy and this week was no exception! Last Sunday we had a bishop called and set apart here. IT is just our former branch president so not too much there. On Monday we had a pretty cool experience. We had about 30 minutes of time to find and decided to pray to know where to go and after went one way and found the coolest girl. She was fluent in like 4 languages and really wanted to hear more. WE met some really cool people this week. It was the first week of summer vacation so lots of people are leaving and going out of town but it is good! At FHE on Monday we had a great time. One sister in the ward was there and started to teach us Czech folk songs! It was crazy fun! They weren't just singing but dancing and hand motions too! 

On Tuesday the Pohořelíčtí arrived. And we had training with them on Saturday, all in Czech! Pretty cool! It was really good to meet them and get to know them a little. WE also had transfer calls. I am still in brno and still a zone leader with elder Smith and Elder Chapple is still with us. We had language study with a member this week and had a pretty good time. It cracked her up with some of the questions we asked. Friday night we had dinner at a members house and i was stuffed pretty much from then on. We also had huge burgers earlier that day, and then pizza at training and lots of food. The morning before training we actually went and did a service project in the morning. It was a project fit for dad. We were just cutting down trees and stacking wood! Pretty fun! That night our ward mission leader invited all the missionaries and some members over to play soccer and have dinner and then we had a correlation after. IT was great fun! We have another investigator on baptismal date again. The same one from a couple weeks ago. IT is for the 13 of august! Fast Sunday was a great day and today we sent off my companion and picked up our new one. Tonight we will have a fun dinner with burgers and chips and corn on the cob! This week is gonna be crazy! We will be in jihlava tomorrow for a baptismal interview and then on Thursday in Prague for MLC. And so it begins! Love you all!

ONE YEAR OUT! Week 9 in Brno

It has been a great week here in Brno. It is hot! and humid. It feels just like Texas minus air conditioning. Last Sunday Michal was at church again and it has been great!  Monday was our last training with president and sister McConkie. It was a great training. Sister McConkie talked about pornography and avoiding it when we go home, The assistants trained on companionship study, and president talked about being a missionary's missionary, testimony and then gave his last Jesus thought. It was a super spiritual meeting. His Jesus thought was from Mark 9 about the father worrying about his kids. He talked about how three years ago he came, worrying about his kids and how the savior is there. It was sad to say goodbye but excited for what is in store! If anyone is in Utah next Sunday, it will be his homecoming. It would be worth it! Its in the imperial second ward at 12:30 p.m. 2768 Fillmore street, Salt Lake. He said we will go for a swim when i get home ;) 

Also i had a cool surprise from Elder Prohazka. He gave me a Red Book of Mormon. He was in Prague a few weeks ago and one of the assistants brought it to me. During communism they used these. They are small, and all red and just Have KM on the front. Really cool! 

On Tuesday we also had our culture night! We went to a play it was called Raduz a Mahulena. It was a fairy tale.  It was outside and right below that really cool cathedral. IT was way fun! 

Friday was my year mark, pretty crazy, time is flying. I got a call from Elder Collins in liberec,. The guy we found and started teaching should have gotten baptized yesterday. One year in. Pretty crazy. We met some really cool people this week! We had a member come contacting with us, which was really fun and have been sweaty! This week we have a busy week on plan. Next Saturday we meet our new mission president so our next p-day will be a week from Monday. Other than that not too much going on! Have a great week! Love ya!

Tyler and President McConkie



where they watched the fairy tale

Week 8 in BRNO

This has been a great week! Last Sunday was a great day! We had a great church meeting and some good meetings. After wards we called the one guy who we had lost contact and he answered!! Since we have had two meetings and have resolved a lot of his concerns. He should be at church tomorrow! On Monday we had one of the more fun FHE at the church. We had gone out and contacted people about it earlier in the day inviting them but we hadn't had two much success but one of them ended up coming which was awesome! 

On Tuesday we had three lessons all with people named Tomas. It was pretty funny to go from one to the next and the last one of the day wanted to teach us Czech so we had language study with him and he was teaching us!

We have had a lot of rain here recently! On Wednesday it was raining the hardest i have seen here and we were contacting under a covered area. For an hour not a single person even acted like they heard us talking to them. Finally we just went out in the pouring rain and almost everyone listen in the pouring rain and we ended up finding a really cool guy! Just have to take the roof off see mark 2.

Our other investigator Bronislav is also doing great, after a lesson he paid tithing! Pretty crazy! 

Wednesday through Friday this week we were also on exchanges. From Wednesday to Thursday i was with Elder Merrill from Houston! He lived near the temple and we had actually been at some of the same places. We had a great exchange. The first night we went in a park and people were running on jogs. So we talk off with them and ran around the entire park and taught a lesson with one guy! Pretty fun! On Thursday Elder Stacey who was in my group in the mtc came and we had a great exchange. We had a goal to find a YSA girl we prayed about what she would be wearing and elder stacey said it would be a shirt with little flowers all over it. We found a ton of Girls with the shirt unfortunately none of them set up. Anyways it has been a busy and good week! Monday we have our last training with president here in Brno and then have a week until president Pohořelicky will be here and two weeks before transfers. I hope you all have a great week! Love ya!

PS this morning we went on a Vylet to lednice with a bunch of YSA and had a great time! See the pictures!

Week 7 in BRNO

Well another week flew by! We lost contact with one of our golden investigators who was supposed to be baptized next weekend and the other one we had will be out of town. But we had some great things happen this week! Last  Sunday we had a broadcast for all of the Europe area, it was great! I may have missed a little though.. Tuesday we taught tithing to our one investigator. It was pretty awesome. We told him that tithing shows our faith in Christ. He said "Ill pay it because the church needs it to run, i don't know if i really believe the it will show my faith. But yeah ill pay it. Don't need to know where it goes, Don't really care but sounds good!" It was pretty funny. He accepted it! 

This week we met a pretty funny kid on the street from the Ukraine. About halfway through our conversation he asked where we were from. He did not believe we were from America so he said in English "lets speak English then" We said OK and started to and he spoke Czech the rest of the time. Pretty funny! Another Man who was baptized right before i got here called us this week and told us he wanted to talk about marriage with us and his girlfriend. Apparently they just got engaged. They are about 50 or 60 and we had no idea he had a girlfriend. It was pretty funny. This week also we had markets on the namesti here and i had halusky each day for lunch! Pretty healthy ;) 

We had a really great language study with some members this week and then we had an exchange with some elders. I was with Elder Shirley. We were in the MTC together. It was pretty fun to be together for a day a year later. We have come a long ways. During the exchange we handed someone a book of Mormon and he took it, opened it and smelled it. He said it smelled good. I promptly told him it was the Holy Ghost! Anyways its been a great week and have a great week on plan, a couple exchanges and then in a week have our last training with president McConkie. Things are great! love you all!

we made i'm a mormon cards





This is sweat from our runs!




a cool castle we saw

Week 6 in Brno

Well another week has flown by! we had some great fun this week and some good things happened. Monday night we had a potential show up and brought three friends with him. It seemed as if they just wanted to debate. We were teaching in English with a member from Ghana. The best part was that at one point they asked a question that had nothing to do with what we were talking about and he answered "You have to drink the milk before you start chewing on the bones" Pretty great quote in the lesson! We taught with him again the next night but this time with a super solid kid we met who was a catholic. He described the restoration as how it feels when you pet a cat the wrong way but that he was really interested. WE had exchanges from Tuesday to Wednesday with Elders from Olomouc and we had a fun exchange. At about 4 we were in a park and one of the bigger storms i have seen here rolled through. Lets just say we were wet and looked pretty funny stopping people in the pouring rain without umbrellas and coats. But we had fun!

Thursday we took off to Prague and had exchanges with the AP's. We had two fun goals on my exchange. One was that we tried to introduce ourselves 15 different ways. A couple of highlights were bringers of good news, defenders of the faith. One that may not have worked so well was shepherds ;) We also tried to not ask a single yes or no question. Pretty hard but pretty great! I had my last interview with president which was bitter sweet but also great! Told me to go find him after the mission. On Friday we stayed in Prague and had our last MLC with president. In the morning we talked about the mission and planned the last training with president and then we had lunch and after lunch we had a Jesus Seminar. 2 hours of just talking about Jesus. WE talked about him as a leader and it was a super cool and spiritual 2 hours. Jesus is real, he was a revolutionary, he cared about the individual, and taught us how to return! It was a great day!

That's about it that is going on here. I finished my first journal this week and started the next one. We made Czech I'm a Mormon cards so we are excited for that and have a good week on plan!