Week 4 in C Bud

24 June 2013 Well. This week was kind of crazy. I don't know what it is about C Bud but it's seriously never-ending adventure. Good and bad. For example, I noticed some old Christmas ornaments that had fallen behind one of our dressers yesterday, so we decided to move them today...and found 10 YEARS WORTH OF DUST AND COBWEBS. Ick. It's so gross. Pretty sure I vaccumed up at least 3 (alive) spiders, plus who-knows-what in all the old cobwebs. I have never seen so many dustballs in my life. So we spent 3 hours of our P-day today moving furniture and vaccuming and we are probably only 1/3 done, if that. We still haven't moved the other armoir, my bed, the other shelves, or the couch and two desks. But the good thing is I finally figured out why I can't breathe or sleep in this apartment...I'm running out of inhalers, so I've been trying not to use them, but then I just cough. So...I'm hoping once we get it all cleared out that my asthma will go back down. It was so musty when I got here, especially compared to the new Prague apartment I was used to...now I know why. So that's fun. We are going to call President and see if he will let us tackle it this week instead of having to do it only during personal time, cause it's disgusting and really is a danger to our health haha. So we'll see what he says. We are joining the ranks of the sisters who have attacked the apartment after we took over from elders...apparently the bathroom used to be full of mold, and one of them scrubbed and scrubbed it with bleach, and the toilet used to be completely brown, and we've almost got it back to white. Let's just say I'm glad I don't have to live here forever... And THEN yesterday, at the end of sacrament meeting, one of our members (she's 91) gives this groan and collapses. So we called the ambulance, and they came and got her. Everyone was afraid she had died since she was unconscious. But she's ok, she has diabetes and they gave her insulin so she's fine. So that was quite the drama. And the drama continues...last Monday, we were supposed to go hiking. So we sprinted from email to the bus stop..and just barely missed it. So we literally ran from the library all the way to the train station and got there 4 minutes before it was going to leave. So we get on, and the ticket guy comes around...the elders ask for the stop we need to go to, and he says we aren't going there, this train goes to Germany... So we got off at the next stop, in this little town and try to find the bus stop. We found it, but none of them went to the mountain. So we changed plans...and basically ended up wandering around in the hot sun for 3 hours and finally got to the road that goes to the monastery...and then had to turn around and go home to make it back for working hours at 6. haha it was miserable. Last time we let the elders plan the vylet haha. But. In terms of the work it was a LOT better. We got 3 new investigators!!! Finally. (We've had 0 the whole transfer) It was such a relief. We stopped by Jarda's house (the really cool young dad who lives on our street) and he was actually home! So he let us in and we ended up helping him take the stickers off his car, cause that's what he was doing, and then teaching a first lesson. It was really good, and we got to meet his adorable wife and little 2 year old daughter so we are really excited to be teaching him. However, it was in the backyard and we got attacked by mosquitoes...I have 13 bites on my legs and feet. haha...so yeah. But it was so worth it! They both speak English really well and so we teach him in English. We tried to do Czech but he doesn't want to. Wednesday we had training in Prague, which was really good. But sad, because was President Irwin's last one, he goes home on Saturday! Crazy. We have another training on July 4 with the new mission president in Prague, so we are going back up next week. Yay for 2 1/2 hour train rides!! Hopefully it won't be as hot as this last week, I've never been so sweaty in my life haha. So gross. Dad, you asked about sister leaders--we still don't have any. I'm hoping that will change with the new mission president, he gets here on Saturday. But it might just be that we don't have enough sisters or something. President's email this week he said he got to see the agenda for the new mission president seminar, Apparently the Brethren have made some "very bold decisions", on new policies in the next couple months, not sure what that means!! We'll see I guess. Oh yeah, and dad--the elders have an investigator whose doctor told her to drink coffee because of her blood pressure, and they wanted to know what other things are good for that so that she can keep the word of wisdom. any ideas? Oh I did have a cool experience--we convinced one of the less-actives to let us teach her the visiting teaching message after fhe (she comes really late, sometimes, and comes to relief society but not sacrament.) Since we are the relief society we do all the visiting teaching too. So we started talking about it (it's on family history) and she said, I don't have any parents and I don't have any kids, so I don't care. So we were like...uh....so I asked her if she has a personal journal, and she says no, and I don't want one. So I would have been completely lost if it weren't for the spirit, because the next second I started talking about gratitude journals and how we can always find something to be grateful for, and committed her to write down 3 things a day. I was so incredibly grateful for inspiration haha. That was cool. Well I think that's about it....we had a really good lesson with our other new investigator too, he's a former, so he's been taught everything. But he's super cool, a professional violinist and loves nature. I felt like we really needed to establish expectations, so I was like, you know we prepare people for baptism right? And he said yes, of course, and I do have that as a goal, it just might take awhile. So I reassured him that he can make it and that we are here to help him--the spirit was really helping me to know how to teach to his needs, it was really cool. (and in Czech!) He mainly wants to meet to have help understanding what he reads in the Book of Mormon. He totally believes that it's true though. Such a sweet guy. So we are excited to teach him too, not sure why he doesn't want to get baptized, but we'll get there. love you!!! Sestra Cooper