Week 1 in Brno! 30 Sept 2013

Ahoj! I'm surprised we had time to email today but I do! I'm now in Brno in a trio! I'm with Sister Steglich and follow-up training Sister Schoen. Should be an adventure, I just got here a couple of hours ago. It's weird cause they are both 20 so I feel a lot older haha. And the greenie is the only one who knows the city, so she has to remember where everything is. But that's ok. The apartment is really nice, a lot better than C Bud's and we have FHE tonight, so that should be cool. It was sad to say goodbye to everyone in C Bud, I was there for 4 months! Which is the longest I've been anywhere, so it was kind of strange to leave. I had to get up and bear my testimony yesterday in sacrament meeting and I thought I would be fine, and I got up there and just started crying. I hate that! gah. But I really do love them all so much. It was hard to say goodbye. I was really grateful that I was there to see Constantin pass the sacrament for the first time though :) That was really neat to see how far he has come in the last 4 months. And the branch is finally getting going, we were going to actually have a real branch council soon! Oh well, I guess I did my part and now I need to be here. I'm really excited to be here, though, Brno is a lot bigger so it will be nice to have a bigger branch. As much as I loved the little one, it's kind of a relief to not be in charge of Relief Society and Young Womens haha. And Brno has a lot of students, so I'm excited to find some new cool investigators. Plus we have a big district so I get to do singing displays again :) I don't really know what to say about last week, we travelled so much. Twice to Prague and back. But we did get to go to Michal's performance, that was super cool. He's a professional violinist and plays for the opera, so we got permission to go :) It was Tosca, I've never seen an opera before, but the music was so good. So I was pleasantly surprised :) Other than that, nothing really happened. I made enchildas for district lunch yesterday and they were soooo good. Oh but can you send me your sauce recipe mom? The sauce here is more like salsa. Yesterday was a blur of packing, so not much to say there, except we went to the Chrdlovi for dinner, that was really nice. This morning on the superlong bus ride I was kind of reflecting on what I've learned from the different areas I've served in, and my different companions, and I decided that C Bud taught me how to have charity, how to really love people, and to see them how Christ does. I just cringe when I think about how I was before my mission. I know I didn't do anything bad, but I could have done so much more good, if I had learned how to serve others -what you guys tried to teach me my whole life! haha. I'm just so grateful that I have the chance to learn that now. The power of the gospel to transform us is just absolutely amazing. I feel like I can relate to what you were talking about mom, about being more converted, that's exactly how I feel as well. It's amazing. Well I think that's about it, love you all!!!