Week 13 in Brno

24 December 2013 So this email is going to be really short because we only have a half an hour. But it was totally worth it because we had a total miracle happen on the way here, which is why we have no email time. yay. But to make a it short, we were planning on dropping by this inactive's house later today but on the bus to email I suddenly realized that the stop we were at was right by her house and I felt like we should go right then. I was like this is crazy...but we'll do it just in case. Because we'd already stopped by like 4 times last transfer and she was never home. But we went anyways, she was home, let us in, was super excited to see us (she hugged us right away and I've never even met her) and we were able to share our Christmas video, sing with her, get her phone number and we have an appointment to come back on Friday :) aaaaah I'm so happy about it. Total Christmas miracle! But yesterday we had a mission conference in prague, it was sooo much fun to see everybody. And President is amazing as usual. We had a slideshow from the whole year, a talent show and then we spent an hour and a half talking about the Christmas story. It was awesome. And it was good to see all the elders who are going home at the end of the transfer, cause most of them aren't in my zone so I won't get to see them again, and I actually know all of them this time. Oh yeah and last week we got two of our investigators on date for baptism :) And one of them says he loves meeting with us and wants to meet more often, and he asked to see the font and was asking questions about how it works. Ahhh so great. And we managed to get the number of the missionaries in Italy for Diego cause he's going home for Christmas and he wants to go to church there! Good things are happening. I just love Brno so much. And the members are just amazing. Other really quick thing, we had our traditional Czech Christmas dinner on Sunday at the Rezacovi's house. SO COOL. They served us carp, which wasn't actually that bad (it wasn't really that good either, but I survived. And managed not to swallow any bones. So that was good). My favorite part though, was that they explained to us all the Czech Christmas traditions and we got to do them! So much fun. They put a fish scale under your plate and then you put it in your wallet and it's supposed to bring you luck, make little boats out of walnut shells and light a candle in them and whoever's lasts the longest has the longest life....there were a ton and they were so cool. I'll probably just tell you about it more tomorrow cause I'm running out of time. Oh and we went carolling/tracting to invite people to the Christmas Concert which turned out super well. I'm totally an alto now haha. It's been pretty fun. Today we are going out to visit more people with the Christmas video and I'm super excited about it, and then we are going to have dinner together as a district. Christmas on a mission is the best, we just get to bear our testimonies about Christ all day long :) So excited to talk to you guys tomorrow!!! love you soooo much!!!! Sestra Cooper