Another week in the office ( Week 2 in Prague, Week 62 in Czech )

Hey Everyone!

So, this week was really interesting. I've fully taken over responsibilities for the office, and then some since the executive and financial secretaries were out of town for a week. Here is a list of highlights:
Some bills came back from the bank as unpaid for unknown reasons but had to be paid before friday. So, we had to learn really quickly the czech vocabulary for electronic transfers, discussing electric and phone bills, and how to read invoices in czech.
We're up to date now on all our visa work and legal forms, so in my spare time I'm developing a bar code inventory system for the literally tens of thousands of items we have in stock for the whole mission. Pamphlets, books, manuals, everything in czech, slovak, english, mongolian, german, and anything else. It's a huge project, and I'm surprised no one has made a barcode system for all this before. But, we're getting there.
We've found a bunch of new people from old records and from on the streets, including a neat Ukrainian man named Petr who's really humble. Prague is very international, so you run into people from just about every country you can think of (So far, I count about 13 different nations, but it might be more).
The basement flooded yesterday morning due to raining. It is an interesting sight seeing a group of men wearing suits and ties sloshing around in water with mops and pushbrooms. Another fun czech learning experience since I had to work with the building coordinator and the city in order to get the problem diagnosed and fixed (I'm wondering if I'm starting to become the designated translator here...)
I've started translating my patriarchal blessing into czech.
We're baptizing an HP executive tomorrow afternoon, and we're working with a judge from Prague on her baptism too.
PJ still wants to go on a mission, but Pavel was hit really hard from every direction and floundered in his faith. It's really sad to see, since he read the whole book of mormon in a month, but it turns out his testimony had no basis in prayer and that, because he didn't put prayer and his heart into his belief, when it came time to make that next step he wasn't able to commit to it and fell apart. He's in the Lord's hands now, but I'm confident that he will come back soon when he sees the stark difference in his life with and without the influence of the Holy Ghost.
I've got to head out, but this week will be crazy, and the week after that we'll be having a switch in mission presidents. So much to do!

Love you all, have fun with summer vacation, and don't forget to read the book of mormon every day!

Brent