Finally in Prague (really Ostrava)

Hello everyone,
Here is a letter we received from the mission secretary this morning:


"I just wanted to let you know that your missionary arrived safely in Prague yeasterday.  After lunch in the mission home, they were taken on a walk around Prague and then to a typical Czech restaurant for dinner.  They returned to the mission home after dinner where they gratefully crashed into bed for a long awaited night's sleep."

Today they received some training in the morning, met their training companion and will be shortly on their way to their new area.  We ae very impressed with this group of missionaries and know that they will serve well.  Thank you for sharing them with us.  President and Sister Slovacek are wonderful and will love your son or daughter.


We also received a note from our friend, Lucia Vankova, who lives in Slovakia. Slovakia is also part of Brent's mission. We met her twice while she was serving her mission at Temple Square and had a truly remarkable experience with her. Brent's first assignment is in her district! The city that he will be serving in is Ostrava, which is in the east of Czech Republic, near the borders with Poland and Slovakia. There are certaily no coincidences when the Lord is involved. There was a deeper reason why we went to Temple Square that day several years ago. She actually spoke to him on the phone when he was in the Mission home. Here is what she wrote to us:


"I just talked to Elder Anderson on the phone from Prague!!!! He's doing great. They showed them around Prague yesterday and they also went contacting and got some phone numbers. He sounded very excited. He is going to be serving in Ostrava, which is my district, so I might see him at a district conference sometime and his companion is Elder Auger.

I am sooo excited! This is sooo cool! I'm sure he'll do great here and if there's anything he needs, I'll be sure to help."


We are truly blessed to have a loving Heavenly Father and Savior to help us along our journey in life.
Have a great spring day,

Starší Brent's dad