[Dear family and friends, I hope that this note finds all of you well and safe. I hope you are enjoying your summer! Thank you so much for the prayers and support you provide to Joseph. He loves hearing from you! If you have a note you would like me to forward to him, just send it and I will get to to him!
Joseph sent some more pictures which I will be putting up on the blog. Check them out later this afternoon -- at:
Have a great week! Joseph's editor - BWS]
So it has only been a couple days since we last spoke [via a very short letter from Joseph!], but I will attempt to bring you all up to speed on everything going on here.
Elder Heath is doing really well. Even as a relatively new missionary, he speaks very well and has an incredible desire to speak with people and share the gospel and his testimony. I think his most impresive quality is his dilligent study. He almost always has his little notebook out and writes down almost every word he sees and hears and then he learns them all. He is a great missionary with whom I am fortunate to be serving here.
Our district [the missionaries in Joseph's city] is also really great. We now have six missionaries down here, two threesomes. I think that I attached a picture of all of us together earlier. The sisters are really great sisters and they are great to work around.
Brother M is almost ready for baptism, he just needs to drop smoking completely. Right now he averages about half a cigarette every day or every other day, but as soon as he stops, he should be completely ready to be baptised. His current baptismal date is for the 23rd of this month and we are praying that he will make the date. He is such a kind and humble man and it has been a pleasure to share the gospel with him. He continues to enjoy church and the activities and even has collaborated quite a list of his ancestors for the genealogy-temple class the the Sister Missionaries have been teaching.
I am feeling well. This past week has been very warm, but that really has not been too bad; I have just been sweating a lot. This week we have to go back to Prague for a conference, and then we all have a Zone conference the next Monday, so it will be a while before we have a normal, regular working week. Despite that, I am looking forward with energy to the upcoming transfer and finding out how to make the most of it.
By the way, I will be reading Jacob 5 tomorrow, as I finally reached that point in my reading. Where are you all reading together? [We just finished 2 Ne 28.] I know I have not been as exact with this as I wanted to be, but I would really like to start sharing some insights, or at least the spirit of reading together from the Book of Mormon.
On a slightly less spiritual note, I will also have to make a trip to the dry cleaners today in order to clean a pair of slacks that were accidentally covered with what I hope was dog droppings last week when Elder Darrington and I took a short walk in the woods while returning to the city center from an appointment. I am not totally sure how it happened, but I think I stepped in it and then hit my leg with my shoe. This will be the first time I have to go to the Dry Cleaners to actually clean something. In the past it has only been to ensure that I do not smell too badly when I talk with people.
I love you all very much. I love your support and think of you often. I would send you my address, but I have forgotten to write it down for a few weeks now. Maybe next week. Have a wonderful week and be safe. Oh, and thank you for all the updates on Weston´s mission papers. Do not forget to continue to fill me in.
S laskou,
Elder J Schindler
(or, as my companions say, Shneidler, which is not as funny as they seem to think)
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