Spring breaks over!‏

Ahoj!!!! 

So we are really excited for everyone to be back from spring break, it will be so nice to have our investigators and less actives around! When everyone was telling us that is was spring break I kept thinking, are you crazy?! It is so early. But I soon found out that they have the country split into about 9 segments so that not everyone has spring break at the same time, this allows everyone to have the opportunity to go to the mountains for the weekend and ski, but there isn't snow, just machine made. So basically our area had the first of the 9 rotations this year, so that is exciting that we don't have to worry about vacations until about july now. ha ha it is so crazy, i can't imagine that! So we are excited to be overloaded and teach lots! 

Stanislav is still on date to be baptized a week from saturday, it is so exciting and he is excited too. He knows the gospel is true but has worries, Satan is really working hard on him. At church he heard about some members that were less active and he told us later that he wants to be active. So that is exciting news! He is on the right path! He is amazing. Friday he gets the results from his tests to see if his cancer is going to keep fighting him, he is trying to brace himself for what he may hear. Since Stanislav lives out where no buses run and the less active that took him last week isn't coming this week we had quite the run to get him to church and back but we succeeded. Basically our member family doesn't have room in their car so we called other less actives that have cars. We got ahold of one and they said yes but didn't know how it would work. So we gave Stanislav thier number so they could try to set it up. Well neither had credit on thier phone so Stanislav texts us and we call him back and then call the less actives and thier phone is now off and it was a crazy run about and we couldn't confirm it so bright and early sunday morning we tired to figure out another option. We ended up calling our member family and asking them to drive the ten minutes out and back to get him to the bus station in our city and then he could ride with us. So that was nice of them. But then we had to figure out how to get him home, no one could drive him from the bus station as they all had other things. But we finally got it all worked out. Wow, what a crazy experience. But well worth it! Then our awesome member sent us train and bus times where we could get Stanislav to church an back without a problem, what a blessing! We have great people in this area! 

Lenka is amazing, she told us that when she gets baptized she wants to do it at the same time as her 10 year old daughter, So that is neat. We met with Filip today, he tried to drop us through text yesterday but is better now. Our resturant Eva introduced us to her niece who we are now teaching. Martina is 20 and willing to learn more. She is a sweetheart! We have such a great area, and so many amazing people. 

Marie has been sick and when we met with her she wasn't really focusing. Her boyfriend came in, Tibor, and she said you should teach him, he is bad and doesn't belive. So he came and sat down and we taught him too. We were teaching the 10 commandments and made it to 3 or 4. It was really neat because Tibor was really understanding and applying it and explaining exactly what we were saying to Marie and Eva when they weren't understanding. He was really good at stating back what we taught in his own words and being right on. Marie isn't really ready to change, she just wants to be baptized, she isn't understanding that baptism is more than just something you do. So we need to teach that to her again. Tibor is really neat and we are excited to keep teaching him, he is willing to try things out so that is awesome. 

Ting is awesome, he reads and enjoys it. He is so to the point and blunt but really nice. It is great to meet with him. There is no wasted time of beating around the bush before or after the lesson. He asks us lots of questions that help us to relate everything to his life and apply it really well, it is so great. I wonder if the Chineese culture is a lot more open or because I know more about him and his life than I know about almost anyone I have taught or any member for that matter, kind of crazy.The Ginovi came to church on Sunday, a less active family and David (the nephew) brought his girl friend so we are going to get to start teaching her, so that is really exciting! 

Lots of great stuff happens every day, i love the work and i love the Lord. Hope that you have a great week! Find a way to help someone out, makes life so much better, not to mention lightens the burdens of someone else! 

S Laskou, Sestra Hicken

The beautiful city in which I live... Got to love it!