Week 6 in Brno

4 Nov 2013 Cau! This week was kind of weird. The first half went by super fast cause we had to go to Prague again for Sister Stegich's visa and then we had Zone Conference. But then the second half took forever. Zone Conference was really fun cause it was all of the Slovak missionaries too, so I got to see Sister Jones and Belibi Minya. That was neat cause I haven't seen them since my first transfer. Sister Jones and her companion stayed at our apartment the night before, and it was so fun to talk to her--we have way more in common than I do with my companions. So that helped. And training was amazing of course, it always seems to be exactly what I needed help with and I always come away with more enthusiasm for the work and excited to try all the new ideas. So that was good. It was weird to have Halloween in Europe though, I saw exactly one Halloween display...the day after haha. It really didn't feel like it. I also can't believe it's November, I don't know what happened, the other day I started writing March on a record and I was like wait a second..... haha. The time just doesn't seem real. We are having a concert in 3 weeks that I'm excited about. We are teaching the first lesson through music! So each missionary companionship will teach one principle and then we have 2 songs for each of them. So we are going to try and get the members excited about it and involved so that it's a less intimidating way for them to invite friends to learn about the church. Plus all the members here are ridiculously talented, so it should be really good. We are just still working out the logisitics of it all, but I'm excited. President McConkie has awesome ideas--some of the other cities have already done it and they were really successful. As far as the week went we had a ton of lessons cancel, 6/6 one day. But it happens. A lot of our investigators got sick so they just dropped off the planet for a little bit. Hopefully we are able to meet with them this next week--cause we do have like 7 now, which is amazing. We are going to try to give 4 of them baptismal dates this week, so we'll see how that goes! After this week we only have 3 weeks left of the transfer though, so that's super weird. I did hear that President might be sending a Czech sister to Slovakia so that we don't have trios in both countries, so that will be interesting. I would love to serve there at some point...but at the same time things are just getting started here and I would hate to leave so soon. So good thing I don't decide right? I'm hoping we get to do a Thanksgiving dinner with the district--I think the senior couple might do it, that would be really nice. Because of course none of the members will celebrate it! Can't believe it's so soon. We had a first lesson with a referral who is a young woman, her mom's a member and she's been coming to church, efy, seminary and yws for a year but never got baptized! And she's super adorable, I am so excited to teach her. She really just wants to make sure that it's the right decision to get baptized and to get a testimony of the Book of Mormon. It was really neat cause as I was teaching her the first vision and testifying about it I just felt my testimony get stronger and I'm so grateful for it. And my testimony of the Book of Mormon has grown a lot this week as well. I just opened up to Helaman randomly and I'm just so surprised every time how spot on everything is. It just seems to describe our day perfectly. And I knew that before, but it never really sunk in. Plus I feel like I can identify better with the prophets when they describe sorrowing over the people's sins---I feel that when people choose not to listen or make decisions that I know will make them unhappy. I'm just so incredibly grateful for this gospel--it brings me so much joy, and I just wish that others would give it a chance--just to try it, and see if it doesn't make a difference in their life too. Love you all soooooo much. Sestra Cooper P.S. Cool fact about Czech that I think I forgot to tell you--it used to have z's like Polish until Jan Hus, and then they shorted them to the accent marks, like the hacek. Interesting huh? So Polish is really quite similar, it just looks different.