Week 10 in Brno

Ahoj! 2 Dec 2013 I'm TRAINING this transfer. aaaaaah. So I'm emailing from Prague, I'll be in a trio with the two other trainers for the next two days and then we get our greenies on Wednesday!! I'm excited but a little nervous at the same time. We were figuring Sister Schoen would leave and me and Sister Steglich would stay but they both left! Crazy. It's a lot of responsibility, but at the same time I'm really excited to be able to work as hard as I want to, and get her all excited about missionary work :) We are going to baptize!! President is really pushing us all to raise our vision and believe in miracles and they are totally happening---the mission had 6 baptisms on Saturday! Super cool. When he called me to tell me I was training he told me to set up as many lessons as I could for this week so that the greenie will just hit the ground running and raise her vision too. I'm so excited, I have 8 lessons set up I think. We had a miracle of our own on Friday--it was just me and Sister Steglich because Sister Schoen was in Prague for visa stuff. And we had planned to go get lunch in the namesti so that we could see the Christmas markets just in case either of us left cause that was the first day they opened and I wanted to get Christmas presents. So we were planning on being there at 2, but our lesson ran long and we didn't get there til 3. But right as we got there I noticed that an unknown number had called us during the lesson, so I called him back, and it was a potential Sister Steglich had contacted at the beginning of the transfer. He was like hi, I have time right now, can we meet in the centrum? So we told him we were already in the namesti, and he came and met us there. So in the middle of the Christmas markets I had halusky (the Slovak version of mac and cheese--it's potatoes sort of like gnocchi and sausage and zeli and is sooo good) for lunch and we taught a quick lesson on God and prayer and he is soooo prepared!!! Me and Sister Steglich just kept looking at each other in disbelief. And he has two twenty-year old daughters that he might bring to English. The only reason he hadn't met earlier is because he works outside of Brno and doesn't get home until 7 every night. Complete miracle. We have another lesson set up with him on Wednesday. It just strengthened my testimony so much. I thought we had only planned to go because I wanted to see the markets, but the Lord clearly had a hand in that. Amazing. I still can't believe it. Thursday we had Thanksgiving at the senior couple's house, it was good but your cooking is way better mom haha. I missed the sweet potatoes. It was fun but didn't feel like Thanksgiving at all. But that's ok. For English class we taught them about Thanksgiving--they were so fascinated and kept asking all these questions haha. It is really hard to explain the pilgrim story in Czech, let alone what jello and pie are. haha good times. We had them all go around and say something they were thankful for in English. It was pretty cute. Wednesday we had exchanges, that was really fun. Sister Barney is awesome at contacting (she's the one going to Slovakia this transfer) and so it was really fun to contact with her. We were talking to people about family history and we got 5 numbers between the five of us (cause her companion had to come too) so that was awesome. Oh and yesterday we had really good second lesson with this former named Honza. He's studying philosophy so his lessons are kind of intense, but he is such a sincere person, he's really looking for truth. So he agreed to listen to the lessons and really ponders them--we taught him about the Restoration yesterday. Vasek taught with us and he was sooo helpful. But it was really neat because I think Honza was surprised that we could actually answer all of his questions. With philosophy everything is unsure. So we'll see how that goes! He still doesn't want to try praying but he's getting closer. I'm really excited about him, sometimes I like teaching people like him better than the people who just accept everything but don't really think about it, because I know that if he decides to be baptized then he's in for good you know? Well that's about it I think, I'm really excited for this next transfer, our district is getting so many good elders, we are just going to tear it up! I can't wait. And I'm really excited to meet my greenie :) Miracles are going to happen in Brno! love you all!! Sestra Cooper