Record breaking week ( Week 6 in Liberec, Week 32 in Czech )

Hello Everyone!

So, I'm afraid that in the face of all the work we've done this week, I've not thought a whole lot about any particular experiences to be shared that would be of interest or constructive to send home. The velvet revolution anniversary was on Tuesday and, despite tons of posters and things about it, Tuesday arrived and Czechs burst into traditional Czech celebrating: They all stayed at home and enjoyed time reading, napping, and doing things with their families. No parties in the streets, no banners or fireworks (Well, I think there were fireworks, but I didn't see any parties related to such festivities). They did project pictures of the revolution on the walls of a mall for a few hours, but that was about it. Even still, 20 years of Czech Republic!

In other news, Soner is taking a break from investigating so he can get his passport in order. I can handle that, since if he were deported we'd be 100% investigatorless, and he still has interest. So, we'll see how this goes. In the mean time, he's been a great blessing to us and especially to elder bown. Tomaš is moving along just fine, we're heading into commandments with him tonight, helping him understand what we need to avoid or repent of to come closer to God. He's a really neat man, and we are very blessed to have him in our responsibility.

We broke records last week, primarily. The last three weeks have been tallied so the mission can determine if we're good enough to take a thanksgiving day before zone conference. And, turns out that we do! Our zone broke an all time mission record by finding at least 3 new investigators this week per companionship across the zone. To my knowledge, that adds up to almost 30 new investigators in just our zone. Pretty neat! We taught a ton of lessons, member lessons, and spoke a lot of Czech. Elder bown is starting on a new leg of missionary work today with what's being dubbed "Lord Bown Week." He's playing the senior companion until Saturday, so he's responsible for the phone, he's teaching more, making sure we're planned properly, and he will be buying our bus tickets to Prague for thanksgiving and the turkey bowl football game. Oh, we're excited.

Thanks everyone for your support, your letters, your pictures, and everything else. I love hearing from you all, and I'm looking forward to getting some mail on Friday so I can send you all Christmas replies. :D

Have a great week!

Elder Brent Anderson