[Dear family and friends,
We hope that this letter finds everyone enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. We are enjoying Thanksgiving with our Michigan family -- we are grateful for our wonderful families and friends.
We are thankful for the opportunity to have our Joseph on a mission for the past 23 months in the Czech Republic. We have definitely missed him but we have loved hearing about his experiences. Thank you for sharing these experiences with us!
Send me any messages that you have for Joseph and I will forward them to him. He LOVES hearing from you.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Joseph's editor - BWS]
Dearest, beloved family,
A lot has happened in the past week and a half. Last Wednesday I went to Prague for a conference, which turned out to be rather nice and helpful and then yesterday we returned to Prague for a Zone conference. It really was a wonderful conference for all of us. President Irwin gave a wonderful lesson on the doctrine of Christ as found in the thirty first chapter of second Nephi. [Here is a link for anyone who wants to read this chapter: http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/31?lang=eng ] We had a zone discussion during the course of that and we were all very edified. President Irwin especially focused on how our missionary purpose, which is the doctrine of Christ, should drive everything that we do here as missionaries and that we should be constantly thinking about it during our day. Our Zone Leaders (one of which is Elder Ingalls) also helped us learn more about preparation for lessons and how we are to strive to prepare in personal study, come together in companionship study, and then teach so that the people we teach can grow well in the gospel of Jesus Christ. We had a wonderful day, and saw the first little bit of snow here in Jihlava. Maybe it can hold off for another month, but I am not holding my breath.
We are teaching three people right now about whom I am really excited. Sister K, Brother P and Sister E. Sister K has been doing excellently. We have been meeting with her for about two months now, but since she is taking care of her aged mother, has been unable to make it to church on Sunday. However, she has finally been able to arrange to have someone come and watch her mother on Sunday morning and she will be there with us in a couple days. We have been teaching much about baptism and it is so amazing to see her excitement for baptism and for all the things that we teach about. Brother P is about our age and is also preparing for baptism. His only concern is though that he works on Sunday and cannot come to church (he recognized this problem though and told us about it right away). We have been working with him as to how we can ask the Father in faith and that he will really prepare a way for us to follow his commandments. Meeting with him is just amazing and I love seeing all the progress that he is making. Sister E is still trying to find her answer, but she really does have real intent. It has been somewhat of a challenge to answer all of her questions, but it is wonderful to know that we have done all that we can and that the next step relies on her. She is just so close, that Elder Story and I just get so excited planning for those lessons, but we must be patient and wait also for her.
Elder Story is great. We are working very hard together, but we also have a ton of fun together when we are contacting and especially at home. I am so grateful that I can be serving with him at this time.
Thanksgiving should be great today. The Pages, the Senior couple here in Jihlava, are cooking us a Thanksgiving meal and we are very excited for this. [We are so appreciative of these wonderful senior couple missionaries!]
Love you all,
Elder Schindler
ps-I would send pictures, but I do not have any new ones. I may in the next couple weeks though, so I might be sending some through soon. [We hope so!]
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