Week 3 in Brno

14 OCT 2013 Ahoj! Well I'm definitely feeling better than last week, but this week was just kind of ridiculous. We had the worst train-wreck of a first lesson I've ever had on Monday and so that just kind of made my self-confidence die, and working with three people is really hard so there's been drama with that...but we're getting better. Found some new potentials and we've gotten a lot of referrals lately, so that's been exciting. There's one who's a yw and has been coming to church with her mom, and she went to efy and everything this summer, and I guess the other yw have been talking to her about getting baptized and she's thinking about it. So we should have our first lesson with her this week, and i'm excited about that. And another one came to conference and sports day this weekend, he's italian. (He speaks fluent French, but not very much English so I'm trying to remember my french...haha. It's a struggle, but at least I still understand everything) So we will finally have some people to teach, yay! And we did a how-to-start family history presentation that actually went really well, and it made contacting people on the street way less awkward when we could just invite them to an event at the beginning. So that was cool. (I'd love to see that family history stuff you are working on mom! it sounds awesome.) We are going to organize a concert soon and try to get more potentials there. One of the other cities did it and basically taught the first lesson through songs, and musical numbers and got new investigators out of it. Super cool right? Oh but the other ridiculous thing...I don't know what it is with me and getting sick/eaten alive here but it seems to happen way more than normal. We had a pigeon's nest outside our bedroom window that they knocked down, but apparently when you do that the bird mites go looking for something else to bite, and since i had the bed by the window the next day I woke up with more than 100 bites all over... So I've been sleeping on the couch all week while we've sprayed the bedroom with raid and aired it out just in case... So that was disgusting and kind of miserable, but we've gotten rid of them at least. So progress? Hopefully we'll move back into the bedroom in the next couple of days. And I found some good running shoes so we've started running again, and that felt amazing. anyways....we also went to prague again, and I officially have my visa now, so that's finally done. President McConkie was in Brno so we got to ride back with him, that was cool to just talk to him cause we never really see him except for trainings. And Conference was amazing of course. I think every talk was just so good. I loved Elder Hollands, Dube, Hales, Bednar, Ochoa....basically all of them. I can't wait to study them. There really is such a sense of the Lord's hastening His work, which is a little scary, I felt like a lot of them talked about how the world is just getting darker and darker, and how there is such a divide between those who are converted and those who aren't. There seems to be less and less middle ground. And it really does feel like Satan is throwing a tantrum like you said mom. Yuck. But at the same time, the gospel is so amazing, I can't believe we have more than 15 million members now!! That's crazy. Conference had me thinking about the future a lot, so I'm trying to not think about next year and how I have no idea what I'm doing with my life... Besides, I know that the Lord is in control, and that he will guide me when I make big decisions. It's still a long ways away, but at the same time transfers go by so fast, and I'm almost halfway done. So weird. Anyways. Well today should be fun cause I think I have a cool idea for Christmas presents for you guys assuming it works out and we are going to another castle with the whole district. So I'm excited about that. I can't believe it's almost Halloween! October just started.... love you!!!!! So. much. Sestra Cooper P.S. I finally saw a hedgehog! haha. And apparently I have a slovak accent when I speak Czech, I probably already told you that, but I thought it was funny.