It's All Grace

a journey with the Thomason family

Category: Czech Republic

  • The Post Office Experience and Why Getting Packages Sent Here is Awesome

    You would think going to the post office would be uneventful. At least that’s what I thought. I was dead wrong. I should’ve walked, but I only had a few minutes before Czech lessons were about to begin so I decided to drive the short distance in town to the post office today. As I…

  • Mail and More

    Two things came in the mail today: 1) Our very first letter from one of our friends and 2) A slip to pick up what we think may be our very first package! The letter above is from a good friend of ours and was really encouraging. As much as I love the digital age…

  • Visa Registration and Potty Training

    As early as we could get everyone out of the house today we loaded our van and headed to Ostrava to try a second time to register our short-term visas. I shared yesterday that we tried and failed because the office was closed, but today we made it to the “foreign police” office during business…

  • Making Assumptions and Going on Our Second Date

    We broke our own rule today. Rule #1 in the Thomason Czech house is “don’t assume.” I believe I’ve written about it before, but basically it works like this: don’t assume you know how something in Czech works. Don’t assume you know how the microwave works, or how to drive a car, or that the…

  • Eating Rabbit and Gospel Opportunities

    Bethany: “So I had rabbit today.” Me: “Really? Awesome!” There’s a first time for everything and today it was Bethany having dumplings with rabbit cream sauce. How did this happen? I’m so glad you asked. It all started yesterday. Bethany got a few texts from some other missionaries near us asking if she’d be interested in…