Week 26 in Brno -- sick companion

Well pretty much everyone of my companions gets sick and this transfer is no different. Tuesday and Thursday we had to stay inside because my companion was sick. I finished reading a history of the church this week that i have been working on for about 2 months. The Church's history is always interesting. I know that Joseph is a prophet and we can all have personal experiences with god. A fraud can not create an experience! we had a good week! On Tuesday we had a lesson with an almost blind man. It was very interesting! He was very humble and open to learn. Also we headed to olomouc and i did a baptismal interview there unfortunately we still have to wait a few weeks until he can be baptized. Friday I was on an exchange with elder Shirley. He was in the MTC with us and he lives with us here in Brno. We had a fun day together. We had a couple of lessons. on the way somewhere we ran into one of our investigators. HE said he had got on the wrong bus and that is why he was in that area. It wasn't a coincidence that we met him!

We did service Friday night and then we had a lesson with a new investigator. She didn't have the greatest expectations but we ended up having a really good lesson about the restoration. We taught in a čajovná . It was basically a tea and hookah hang out place. IT was definitely interesting!

On Saturday we did a little more service and finished taking out that tree we started last week! We had a fun sports night and then Sunday we had the primary program here. I was translating for the little kids and they sure speak fast! We went tracting Sunday night and had a few people say we could return so we are excited. We have two weeks left in the transfer. This week i will be in olomouc on an exchange and then we also have training on Thursday! Hope you all have a great week!

Love, Tyler

Week 25 in Brno - exhausted

As the title suggests we are exhausted. This week has been a good one though, Tuesday the weather was pretty miserable. just drizzly and cold but we had a lesson with a guy from Georgia. HE is actually a member and is interested in looking into the church again. We tried this week to tract the richest houses we could find. We weren't too successful in finding big houses so we are trying again this week! With four missionaries together it has been a party and we talk a lot and have covered a lot of topics. It is a blast.

This week we had the chance to go over to the řezačovi for dinner. It is always a privilege to get to be in the members homes/ We had lasagna and played jenga! IT felt like home in some ways. The members here in BRno are amazing. Thursday my companion got blessed by a lady on the street, we met with our investigator and believes everything and knows that baptism has lots of advantages but just doesn't want to get baptized yet! Friday we were on exchanges with elders from Jihlava i had a great day  with elder trythall who was roommates with Ryder Markwalter at BYU. Then after a lesson on Friday night we helped clean the building and got to play around the world ping pong with the youth! 

Saturday we returned to someone we met service tracting and began taking out a tree. ITs been fun! WE had a good sports night and played more floorball. Sunday was also a great day! 

There were a couple of really cool experiences this week! one night on the way home i was talking to someone in the bus and we didn't have too much time and she had no interest at all until i said we can talk with God and her eyes got all big and she was stunned that we believe we can really communicate with our heavenly father. It was really cool. also on Sunday we went to visit a shut in with another member. The member visiting was really struggling to get the right key to the door. After about 5 minutes the wife turns to the husband and just says we should pray and without even hesitating the husband was praying. 

Today we had an awesome pday we went to Breclav which is about a 30 minutes train ride from here and rented bikes. We biked to a few castles and some really cool things. WE biked about 30 KM - More than a year since i have used those muscles, i am sore! That's about got you up to date! Love ya!

Week 24 in Brno

Another week flew by here! Last p-day we had a fun time with a member here. HE took us bowling and taught us how to throw darts. IT was pretty fun! At FHE we play games and one of the games we have played is jungle speed. It is a Hanis style game. It's about cards and speed. Also a good time. On the way to FHE we were waiting for a tram on a busy stop and one tram came and a less active member got off right where i was standing. We had been trying to contact him for a while to invite him to General conference and it was cool to see how we were in exactly the right place. 

On Tuesday we had lunch from dad and ate tatarak. That's the raw meat and egg! Pretty good! Our English classes are continuing to improve and had 30 people there between the three classes! Wednesday was cold! We had to bust out the thermals.. WE had a cool experience we were contacting and we met a partially blind man. We ended up walking with him to a tram stop and then traveled with him and he was really open to the gospel. We will see how it goes this week! 

Thursday we were in Prague for MLC. IT was a good one and training should be pretty good! I also got shad and dads package which was a big surprise! Thanks! We came home and had a lesson with a guy and put him on baptismal date.Friday we did service and i picked grapes for two hours. Good experience. Finally we got to watch conference which was awesome! My favorite talk was from President Uctdorf about the plan of salvation. The themes of conference for me were about the plan of salvation, prayer and the book of Mormon! IT was a great weekend! Sunday night we went tracting for a little bit and we started to talk to guy on the street with two kids. Turns out he is practicing polygamy and when we said we were Mormons he said "me too. Or at least everyone tells me that" IT was pretty interesting! Other than that not too much else going on here ! We are excited for a good week this week! 

S laskou,

Starsi Hanis

Week 23 in Brno

Well the fall is beginning again here in the Czech republic, the weather is cooling off and the leaves are changing. WE have had a great week! On Tuesday, we went on exchanges with the other elders here in Brno. This time We led the exchanges as the zone leaders and in the future it will be the other way now. I was with Elder Hymas, We had a lot of fun, talked to a lot of people but in the end no one would set up! In our English class we talked about thanksgiving. Just around the corner! 

Wednesday we got to help someone in the ward move. From a fourth floor to a second floor and small tiny staircases. Only four missionaries showed up to help! And we only had an hour. We got it loaded in an hour and a half and then was a little disappointed that we were leaving the job undone so we said we could go and unload for 20 minutes. We pounded it out. We were so busy on Wednesday that we didn't get lunch until 1800 which was a lot of fun. We have been teaching a guy from Ghana. He was the most open and prepared guy. We had a lesson later in the week and he had three questions about the resurrection, the Sabbath day and polygamy (my favorite topic) . At the end he said well this is great, I think we are at the point where the next time you could talk about salvation, forgiveness and heaven and hell. Pretty much the plan of salvation! Funny how things go in order! We had some other interesting visits this week! We had one woman who gave us hot chocolate. I think it was half chocolate and half coffee. Another guy made us eggnog and said it was just rum flavoring. I think it was more rum than flavor.

Thursday night we went to that bible study again for comp study. It is an interesting place! But cool to have people see us in a new light. Footnotes make us seem smart ;) On Saturday we helped a guy in his yard and he made us Czech sausages over the fire at the end. After that we had a really cool first lesson with a girl from English. It was a really spiritual lesson about God and prayer. We played floor ball again at sports night. Way fun! 

Sunday was a great fast sunday here for us. WE had 8 investigators in our district at church and we had three of our investigators there which was pretty great! WE made a great big pot of halusky to end the night and we are excited for a good week this week! Hope you all enjoyed conference! 

S laskou

Starsi Hanis

Week 22 in Brno

IT has been a good week here in Brno, Fall is on the way and we have has cooler weather. WE had a pretty interesting week. AS always it is a blast with the four of us together. This week elder Shirley and i were on a quick teaching split. It was pretty interesting. The lady did not want us to teach her because she was so much smarter than us! She was blown away when we said we received spiritual answers. That's what we offer! 

Anyways we met a really cool guy from Ghana last week and had out first lesson this week. IT was way in depth about authority but went really well! Another guy here Brona finished reading the Book of Mormon this week! I have been meeting with him since i got to Brno! Pretty sweet! Our other investigator who had a baptismal date found work but hasn't had time to meet so we will see hot it goes! 

We had zone training this week. It was really good. President and sestra phorelicti spoke about God and teaching the first lesson. What words we can say and how we can teach so that people will be able to understand better. Elder Carlson and i also trained on teaching where we find and talking about the restoration. WE talked about finding nemo and how Marlin found nemo! There's a lot of parallels there! It was fun and went well! After training we went on exchanges with missionaries from Zlin. I was with Elder Johnson from Calgary Canada. Its his first transfer. IT was a good exchange and we learned a lot together.

Saturday we got to do service with a member. He said he had 15 trees he wanted to be taken out. The four of us had them out in thirty minutes and we had planned 4 hours. So we kept going, WE took out big cement poles and then started mozing. I mowed a lawn for 2 and a half hours. It was never ending. Didnt even finsih. We had a pretty fun sports night and our ward mission leader came to play florball. He almost played professional hockey here. He was way good! Sunday was a nice day. WE visited a few people and had a good day! Thats about it here! Hope you al are well

S laskou,

starsi Hanis

Week 21 in Brno

We are exhausted here in Brno. It has been a fun week and one of the busiest. We have had a lot of lessons  this week and have been traveling between them. IT has been a lot of fun. But our teaching pool is definitely interesting! On Monday we had FHE and an investigator brought rabbit for us all which was fun. We also had an interesting lesson with a YSA girl. We have gone on splits with the other missionaries a lot to cover all our lessons! IT is a blast with four of us. Our English class this week just got way cooler. A lot of them are becoming interested in the gospel which is sweet.

We had 3 meals with a member this week and that is definitely a record! ON Thursday we were in Prague for MLC. We have training this week and have a lot to get ready. IT should be fun! On Friday we had a great day. We met a really cool guy from Ghana and a member was with us. We sat down and taught about the book of Mormon and things it was way awesome! Saturday we got to go service tracting and had a lot of success and have lots of service lined up over the next couple of weeks. Sunday one of the members here brought his cousins girlfriend to church and we  are trying to work with her. Its been a great week! Things are going great and time is flying. The weather has cooled off a bit and everything is great! Hope you all have a great week! 

Week 20 in Brno

Its been quite the week! Elder Carslon and i hit it hard and we had a lot of lessons this week. We are still working to grow our teaching pool but we have an interesting area right now! There are four of us living together. Last week we bought 30 bags of cereal hopefully for a good portion of the transfer. It has been a fun week together! We are working with Richard towards baptism and are meeting with him every day to help him. He has a unique situation and we may have to move his date a little. But we will pray for the best. For the last 4 months in Brno i have gone to an Indian place for lunch pretty often this last week the guy asked about the book of Mormon and we may be able to teach him this week! We also found two mothers who we were able to return and teach a little more! 

One day in a park someone was reading harry potter and we got to relate It to the gospel! I had some interesting parallels. IT was pretty fun! We taught the law of chastity a few times this week. Always an interesting experience. The first time i haven't been able to hold it together. But that is a story for another time! On Saturday we did service with that member again and also threw Břemena . I am not sure what its called in englsih but its similar to a hammer throw and we threw javelins again. It was pretty fun! Saturday night we were in a park and ran into a less active member and ended up sitting down and talking for a while. The way we met and the reason we were there was definitely because god wanted us to meet! Sunday was a great day we were fasting with a member who is trying to stop smoking! We also searched for less actives and found one really nice guy who should be at FHE tonight! It has been a great week! Our land lord is building another dresser for us and we have a lot of things in Prague for our apartment with the four missionaries! Thins are going great! Hope you all have a great week! Love ya!