One week left in the MTC!

Ahoj! Thanks for the package!! Annica sent me one too, and so did Janyse, lots of love this week :) This week was good, very up and down. We had an amazing TRC lesson on Thursday--I felt like I was actually able to sort of speak from my heart in Czech for the first time, and I actually remembered to case some things, which was exciting! And one of the people we taught said that our lesson was an answer to his prayers, which was really nice to hear. But Saturday was pretty discouraging because of the language--we've finished all 42 board displays now (each one is a different grammar principle) and so me and Starsi Howell were practicing putting together just simple sentences using all the grammar we know--and I realized that every single word in a sentence almost will change depending on the sentence--so I kind of freaked out haha. Brother Machado told us he met an American while he was serving that had lived there for 13 years and had given up on learning Czech cause it's so impossible. So in a way it's pretty amazing that we can say anything at all, but that makes it sound pretty daunting! I'm feeling a little better now--I know there is no way I will be able to speak Czech without God's help, so as long as I'm doing my best, He will do the rest. The devotional on Sunday was really good--it was a guy from the Missionary Department like always, but he used rock analogies because there are so many in the scriptures. It was cool cause he said sometimes life is like igneous rock, we are on fire, super excited and everything is going well, but most of the time it's sedimentary. Small acts of faith like layers of sand, and it's hard to see how it is turning into rock. So we can choose to stay a pile of sand, or let the Lord mold and shape us into metamorphic rock-something new, different, and better than what we could ever be on our own. I loved that imagery. And the devotional on Tuesday--he talked about how when Ammon was having success, Aaron was in prison, so we should never compare ourselves to other missionaries--that was cool. And he quoted 1 Thess 2, and talked about how Paul describes what a missionary should be, that was cool too. We got our flight itineraries on Thursday!! That was super exciting, we leave in exactly one week!!! It's going to be awesome. Oh and we can now officially email family, friends and leaders, it was announced in District meeting, so it must be church-wide. So that will be super nice when we get there and don't have to wait for letters once a month. So write me friends!! haha. We are attempting to do SYL all day every day for our last week, so that should be interesting! I really do love the Czech language, it's so pretty. I just have to squish my perfectionist side and be ok with making mistakes. I'm understandable for sure, at least about gospel words--I can't really say very many normal things, but I'm trying to learn some on TALL. It's pretty funny that I can teach a whole lesson in Czech without any notes but I don't know how to buy something haha. I did learn the words for train (vlak) and bus and stuff like that, so that's progress haha. Well that's about it! Oh wait I forgot--one of our "investigators" got "baptized" on Saturday! That was exciting haha. It was pretty neat to feel that happy when it wasn't even real, I can't even imagine how much joy I'll feel when it actually happens :) Our other one wasn't quite ready, but we are done teaching her since it's our last week. She was still progressing though! I'm super excited to go to Prague though, it's going to be awesome. I think most of us are going to buy a Book of Mormon to try and place on the flight over there--it will be fun to talk to people in English, before we get thrown into Czech :) I just love this gospel so much, I can't wait to share it. I'm going to ride that optimistic wave as long as I can haha. s laskou, Sestra Cooper