Ahoj!

Well, sorry for my little email delay, everybody! Hah, I hope that my message makes it to all of this time.

This past week has definitely been wonderful. It's been hard and a little stressful at times but it wasn't hard to get over it when you lose yourself in the work.
This week wasn't even close to as succesfull (number-wise) as last week. We were working hard and doing the same things as the week before but this week we had a LOT of traveling and other things that took up our time. I went and saw Bratislava (the capital) for the first time on wednesday! Me and the other three new missionaries spent almost the entire day traveling (we also traveled the night before and slept in Bratislava so we wouldn't have to wke up as early) and then getting visa and health clearance work all sorted out with the Foreign Police. It was really cool. The food here in Slovakia is reallly good, as well. I've been able to have a lot of signature meals from the Czech/Slovak Republics these past two weeks. Haha I ate fried cheese! I felt terible about myself afterwards but it was dang good. Another day was spent traveling back to the Czech Republic to a training in Brno for all of the missions new missionaries and their companions. It was so great to see everyone again and to talk about everything that had happened. I love my mission president and it's great getting to know him better. Two and a half other days were also taken up by both preparing for General Conference and then watching it. Starsi Clem and I had to go buy a new TV for the building and that took forever. I loved General Conference! It was great to hear the words of the prophet and apostles and also to give that experience to our members once again. With all of this, we also had another day full of traveling to a members home about 1.5 hours away (Taking the bus takes forever). He is the coolest guy ever and is the one I told you about that crossed the border into Germany. We are teaching all of the lessons to him over again and we taught about the Restoration this week. It was such a great lesson and I tried to participate as much as I could. Nitra is really close to the border of Hungary so a lot of Hungarian is spoken around here. Lajos Majtan (the member) is Hungarian and has a tough accent when he speaks in Slovak so it's pretty hard for me to understand him. I'm grateful that Starsi Clem can speak.
So yeah, we've been doing a lot of different things that took up a lot of our proselyting and teaching time. A few of our lessons actually fell through and had to be pushed back for next week... so that didn't completely help either. This past week was a great testimoney builder and spiritual uplifter. We might not have been "on the surface" succesful but we definitely got a lot of things finished and ready which has primed our next week to be perhaps even better than our first week. Starsi Clem and I have big goals/hopes for this coming week. We are really excited.
Starsi Clem and I are working really well together. There are some people out there that don't realize how important actual relationships with people are... but we aren't like that. We're becoming really good friends and I'm very excited and hopeful for this transfer.

I, personally, am doing very well. The personal goals I have set and keep on setting are really pushing me and keeping me driven. If you haven't noticed it yet then there is one thing you should know about me: I love working and being driven. Striving for goals and hiting them are just things that I have really found joy in these past few years. I love being organized and staying on task and it's just a great tool out here. I also love service-- especially yard work-- and can't wait to do more of it! I pray someone will ask us to do some wood choping for them for the winter, haha. We are doing some service for a family this thursday and will then teach them about the Plan of Salvation.

Anyways, I got to run! I love you all and are hoping you are all doing well!

P.S. The mailing address is just the mission home address on my missionary card :). Let me know if you need it emailed.