Fun Facts & Phrases

This week has been pretty crazy! Between school, work, homework, and tests, I haven't had as much time to prepare for my mission as I would have liked.

In my packet they gave me a link to this website called the "Missionary Portal" which basically just helps me prepare for my mission. It has videos to watch and articles to read that will help me, and it has links to other tools. On Tuesday I got a lot of the tasks on the site done (I was supposed to be doing homework, oops!). I also received my visa info. So right now I really need to apply for a passport and get my visa started.

On Wednesday, in my mission prep class we went "contacting." It was this really awesome experience where we went out in companionships around campus, and just talked to people. After we got to know the people a little bit, we would ask them if they had been able to watch conference and talk to them about their favorite parts. Then we would ask them if they could think of a person in their life that could benefit from them sharing that talk with them. We would let them think of someone, and then ask them to commit to sharing that thought/talk with them. Then, if that wasn't enough, we asked for their phone numbers or emails so that we could contact them in a few days to see if they had done it. It was a really cool experience, and it was awesome to be able to talk to random people about conference and get them to share a message with someone else.

Also to prepare for my mission, I have been trying to learn more about the Czech Republic and the Czech language. Today I was translating gospel related terms and trying to figure out how to say them. Here are a few:

Dobrý den - Hello

Jsem sestra Schaerrer - I am Sister Schaerrer

Patřím k Církvi Ježíše Krista Svatých posledních dnů. - I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

(Yes, I really do know how to pronounce all those) :)

Anyway, I have a few others but that's enough for now haha. I've also been researching about the culture of the Czech Republic. I found out a few interesting facts:

1. 40% of the population declares themselves Atheist and 27% is Catholic.

2. The Czech Republic consists of 10.5 million people, and over 1 million live in the capital, Prague.

3. In addition to speaking Czech, people typically also speak German, Russian, or English, or sometimes all three. (Maybe I'll get to use some of my German!)

I'm still learning more about the culture and climate and everything. I also ordered a little Czech language book, nothing major since I'll learn everything in the MTC, but enough to get me started and a little more familiar with the language before I leave. 

Anyway, I'm really really excited, and I can't wait to learn more about this awesome place I'll be living in for 18 months (well, minus 9 weeks)!





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Dear Sister Schaerrer...

Dear Sister Schaerrer,

You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Czech/Slovak Mission.

I'll be speaking Czech and I report to the Provo MTC on February 18, 2015!!

(Don't mind the devil eyes, it's kind of a regular thing with me)

I really can't believe that this has actually happened! I'm going to the Czech Republic and Slovakia!! And I'll be speaking Czech! I know one word of Czech so far and it's "sestra" which is the word for sister. Soon I'll be Sestra Schaerrer. I have to admit Czech sounds pretty dang cool. After I opened my call and everyone had left, Adam, Shelby and I went on the computer to look up pictures of the Czech Republic and boy is it beautiful!

My call packet says I really need to prepare for winter there, but I'm really glad that I'll only have to go through one! The summer is so beautiful there though, I can't wait!

This is going to be an amazing experience! I never even considered going to the Czech/Slovak mission, I had heard of it, but never in my wildest dreams did I think I would get called there! Now a new count down begins!

Anyway, it's late and I need to at least try to get some sleep, goodnight! :)

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Is Today The Day??

I'M DYING OF ANTICIPATION!!!

My call was assigned last Thursday which, according to my bishop, means that they should have mailed my call yesterday, which means it should get here today!! I can't wait to find out!

Unfortunately my call is being mailed to my house, and no one is going to be home until about 1:30pm to check the mail, so I won't know if it's here until then! I have 3 classes between now and 1:30 and I don't know if I can concentrate for that long! Gah!! Sorry if this post doesn't make sense or is scattered or something, I'm mostly only using this as a place for me to vent my excitement. BECAUSE I'M SO EXCITED!!

Gah!! Anyway, that's really all I have to say, so I'm going to stop now before I just keep saying the same things over and over.

Have a great day everyone, and I'll let you know when my call gets here!