The title of this letter is like this for a great reason regarding apples which I will speak of shortly.
It is just cold here. It isn't bad already, but thinking about how cold it is and the fact that it will get twice as cold here, just chills me. Brrrrrr. Like I said, it isn't too cold yet, but I am still having to break out the jackets!
I had a nice week this week. We didn't teach too many lessons, but we did got a nice dose of good ol' service. Just to say a few things before we get into what we did this week as far as service; We had a great lesson with a recent convert. She explained that people at school were asking ""Why do you go to that sect of yours?"" She didn't know how to answer, so we told her to handle it with the best weapon in the army of God. TESTIMONY!!!! We helped her understand how to share what she knows is true with people then we practiced. It was a fun little reenactment. She is a great member and knows that she is in the right place. :)
This week I got to play the piano in sacrament meeting too! It was fun and I made a couple mistakes in the hymns as I played them, but I am happy for the opportunity I had to share my talents. God has truly blessed me.
A good "Side-dish" of being on a mission here is learning history from the witnesses of the history and people who experienced things first hand, instead of learning from a text book.
So now on to the service experiences. We planned to have a FULL day of finding people on Saturday and we got a call right after studies before we went out to work. A member here has a garden just outside of town with LOADS of apples. She asked us to help her. We said "We would love to!" And we loved it. We spent 6 hours shaking trees, climbing trees, bagging apples, etc. so that the next day's storm would not ruin all of her apples. There were literally thousands. It was a ton of work. She was so thankful that she just kept giving us more and more of her apples. Our counters at home are now covered in apples. She is a great member and I am glad we could help her out. That evening, we also had on plan to clean the church building, so we did. It was pretty much a full day of service. Other than that, we called some people and tried to set up meetings for this next week.
Another service story comes in the form of "Lost and Found." We were running Saturday morning and we found a wallet on the ground. It had 2000 Czech Koruna in it (about $100). We looked for an address in the wallet and found the address. He wasn't home though, so we left a note. This morning, he called us and we met and gave it to him. It was also a great chance to share the gospel. He didn't have time, so we couldn't share the gospel through words, but through our actions. Lessson learned from this story is to always do what is right and the love of God can be shared through that to people.
When a decision is placed before you, replace fear with faith and do what is right. That is all I got this week. Stand up for what you believe.
Have a great week,
Elder Bahr
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