Saturday, May 25, 2013
Week 9 in Praha. Do I stay?
Ahoj!
This is going to be short cause we are going to go to Karelstejin today!! I'm really excited but it means a lot of running around like a crazy person (to use Monica's phrase :)) We have to go catch the 1:20 train. This week wasn't really too exciting anyways, not compared to last week. We've been teaching Jana and Vaclav the new member lessons, and it's been really cool to see how much more they understand now that they are members, there really is a difference with the gift of the Holy Ghost! So that was fun, we went for pudding at the Cankovi's house with both of them, and that was really cool. Both Sister Cankova and Brother Canek (they spell the names differently according to gender) were baptized during Communism, and they work in the Freiberg temple every other week. She told us her story, they had to sneak out in the middle of the night to a lake and avoid the police. It was sweet, she said her two feelings at her baptism were, being scared that the police would catch them, and when can I go to the Temple? They are amazing.
On Tuesday we got to go to Ceske Budovice (2 1/1 hrs south by car) for specialized training. That was fun, cause it was all about using our time wisely and trying new contacting techniques, so we contacted for 2 hours as part of it. That was cool cause I learned a lot, but also got to see another city! It's beautiful, especially the main namesti (town square).
What else...nothing else really happened haha. We have a good pool of potential investigators for next transfer which is good cause our area isn't quite as good now that our two main ones got baptized! So if I'm still here in Prague things are looking pretty good. I'm excited about Boki though, cause I think he finally understands why we want him to read in the Book of Mormon, how everything we teach him leans on knowing whether or not it's true. And he committed to come to church on Sunday even though he didn't like it last time, so he's started progressing. We are also bringing him to Br Zumar's with the Munros for dinner on Sunday so that will be fun. We've been getting feed the last two weekends cause everyone wants to say goodbye to Sister Bowler, so that's been nice. We are getting fed Monday at FHE, then Tuesday at the Balackovi too haha. It's great.
It was so good to get your email Annica!! I'm so glad you get to speak Spanish, that's awesome. I'm glad you are enjoying it. Are you really saying blessed?? haha Utah has corrupted you.
Oh yeah, Martin Novak made his decision...and it's not getting baptized. It's so sad, he told Sister Bowler he knows he will miss the church a lot, but he can't bring himself to do it. Not even to just make the decision--we told him he could change his mind if he didn't get an answer. But he said he just likes Buddhism better, cause he doesn't have any doubts about it. I don't get that though, cause he's told us before that he believes that God and Jesus Christ are real. I'm hoping he makes it one day! Hopefully when he has a trial or something he will remember the gospel and how much happier it made him.
I'm trying not to freak out about transfers, and so far I've been doing pretty well. I find out tonight though! Everyone has pretty much assumed I'm staying in Prague, and I think I might be with someone from my own group, but we'll see! You never know, I could be leaving. I'm feeling much more confident now, though, I know that whatever happens I'll have the Lord's help every day, and that I will see miracles! I've been really working on having charity for the people and it's made a huge difference.
love you all!!!
Sestra Cooper
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