Week 18 in C Bud 23 Sept 2013

Nazdar! Well I can't believe transfers are next week already. aaah. I feel like I just blinked and the transfer is already over. So if you don't get an email that's why. I think I'm probably leaving, but you never know! We'll see. I really don't know what to say about last week, it went by super fast, and I don't think anything really happened.... oh wait. We have a full-fledged branch now, Constantin got the priesthood, my visa went through, and we've been sick all week, so it's kind of a blur of tiredness. Just a cold though, so that was good. We tried to sleep during lunches and go to bed right after planning. Yesterday was exciting though, because Elder Greener has two counselors now, and we have a primary president, should be getting a relief society one and elders quorum soon which will be nice, so that we don't have to do yw and everything else too! But our chapel has been full for the last couple of weeks, so we have to look for a new building! That is an amazing problem to have. It's funny cause I think we aren't making any progress, and then I remember that we had 8 people at church, if that, when I first got here 4 months ago. So that's pretty amazing that we are averaging like 25 every week now. It finally feels like a real branch :) President was telling us this morning that the Lord is just going to open the floodgates now that we have somewhere to fellowship new converts :) So that was an exciting thought. It's so hard to find people to teach in C Bud, but maybe it just had to wait until there was somewhere to bring them, and now we'll start finding people. We did meet some pretty cool people tracting this week, so that was fun. We'll see what happens there. It was really nice cause the 1st counselor in the mission presidency and his wife came down to organize the presidency (Tmejovi) and they are so cool. I love it when I meet active members who have been in the church for 20 years, it gives me hope. Because most of the branch is recent converts. But she taught relief society and is so cool, it was so nice to have someone ask how we are doing in a motherly way haha. Made me miss you mom! There's just nothing quite like it. what else....we went out to Trebon to find a less active, that was cool cause the town still has it's medieval wall with a moat around it :) He still lives there too, and we found his house, so it was good to confirm his address. haha Czech addresses are ridiculous, his number was 148, but it was after 145 and 135, they make no sense. Basically you just have to wander around and go both directions until you find it. We had a couple miracles happen with less actives actually, we were calling old potentials, and one of them is the son of an inactive, the son is catholic, and not interested, but super nice, and he gave us his dad's new number! So that was awesome, most people wouldn't. Our senior couple are just super excited that they get to help with that, and are super helpful with that cause they have a car and a lot of them live far out. I think that's about it...I found quinoa so I made that this week, super good. haha that was exciting. We have training on Thursday, so we are coming back up to Prague, and then I have to come back again in two weeks for more visa stuff...so lots of train rides. I'm still reading the Bible, and I'm really enjoying Deuteronomy actually. Deut. 4:29-31 is really beautiful, about how the Lord will never forget us, and the second we turn back to Him, He is always right there, ready to bless, and uplift us. So I was thinking about that this week. I'm so imperfect and do so many things wrong, but somehow He trusts me enough to represent Him. And so in my small way I get to be a tool in His hands and help other people come back to Him as well. love you!!!! Sestra Cooper