Tomas Mission

Ahojte!  Yet again a wild week, it seems like it never calms down out here.  Tuesday we raked a ton of leaves for the local family center, and for once I actually enjoyed it! When you don’t have your own yard you end up missing that stuff I guess. Then the other big thing was Magic night, pretty average although now we have like 10 people coming which is cool, it’s grown a lot.  Wednesday we spoke a ridiculous amount of Ukranian, we had like 3 Ukrainian lessons and a class, it was crazy. I barely spoke any Slovak that

Ahojte! I’m alive! Just got a lot going on. Things have been veru wacky out here and I end everu day just feeling very tired, but happy and fulfilled. I’m not going to get into specifics too much this week, but here’s some cool stuff that’s happened: -spoke some very broken Ukrainian on the street, managed to get a point across -met and taught a Catholic priest (he was really cool) -got stuck leading a VERY drunk Czech man to the station, told a wild story about sleeping in a construction site instead of the penzión he rented. Weird guy

I (Bryce) spoke too soon yesterday. Tomas sent out his letter yesterday afternoon, detailing more on what’s going on right now. Sorry about jumping the gun. Here it is now: Привіт! I don’t know if you could tell by the title but I have some big news… Mid transfers have come and gone and I am yet again here in Trenčín (let’s gooo!!) but of course Prez won’t be making it easy. I am training (!!!) which means I have a missionary straight from the MTC who literally just got here. His name is Elder Theodosis and he speaks about

This is Bryce here, not Tomas. While he didn’t say outright that he wouldn’t be sending an email this week, I’ll be very surprised if he does. He found out last week that he’d be training a new missionary, and that started on Saturday, so he’s got his hands more than a little full right now. Training a new missionary is already an added load, but this particular instance makes it even more challenging. His new companion was called to the Czech-Slovak Slovak area, just like Tomas. However, he was assigned to teach the Gospel in Ukrainian. This means that

Today marks the anniversary of Tomas’s first day as a missionary. I’ve been taking some time to think back on how the year has gone. As I imagine most would expect, it went very quickly and very slowly at the same time. We check in with him once a week, and often it feels like there’s been almost no time at all since the last time we talked to him. The first few months he was gone felt very long, but it’s picked up quite a bit since then. Yesterday when we talked to him, I realized that we’re now