Week 16 in Brno

Ahoj! 13 Jan 2014 aaah there are only 3 weeks left of the transfer! SO weird. I have no idea what will happen. I hope I will stay but it would be my third transfer here, so who knows. Should be interesting. Today was a good P-day, I finally had time to clean the apartment and organize my closet (we never have time for that!) and then we went to Spilberk Castle again with the district. This week went better-we were able to meet with some new people and our Christmas Eve miracle came to church! That was exciting, she was able to talk to a lot of the members that she knew and seemed to like it, she hasn't been to church in 3 years. And our Jewish investigator went to church in Uherske Hradiste, so that was good, he said he really liked it. Unfortunately he's going back to Turkey in February, but he says he'll look up missionaries this time (cause they are new) so we'll see how that goes. He's really cool, has been an on-again off-again investigator for about 5 years. The sad news is that our investigator from the Congo can't meet with us anymore because of his wife. It's SO sad. She won't even let us meet her, and has some fear of Mormons cause of lies she read online. It's awful cause he said he knows the book of mormon is true... I just hope that she changes her mind one day so that he can come back. He thanked us for the opportunity to meet and said that he always felt the Spirit...He'll make it one day. But, back to good things...yesterday was also good because we got two unexpected referrals at church! So we are really excited to teach some new people. We're getting along pretty well and have figured out how to teach with each other, so that's been really good. I'm excited about this week because we have zone training tomorrow, and we get to do the first 24 hour exchange for sisters in our mission! So that should be fun. The other ones were just like half a day, with all of us in the same area cause we have to travel so much. But this time Sister Graham is coming here and SIster Senkane is going to Uherske Hradiste. So that should be cool, I always learn so much from seeing how other people do things. Oh I did learn something cool in language study the other day--I've been reading a chapter of the Book of Mormon out loud every day for a couple of transfers now and I'm finally in Alma, and it's been cool because I notice different things when I read it in a different language. But this time I noticed more of Amulek's story, I feel like we usually focus on Alma more. But it occured to me that he might have had to watch his family be destroyed by the unbelievers, and maybe that was why it hurt him so much. And then he leaves everything he owns behind and his family and friends reject him. So I just realized how much he gave up for the gospel--literally everything. And the one convert out of that whole city and everything they went through was Zeezrom. So it just reconfirmed to me that the worth of one soul is so great that it was worth it. I thought that was neat, I've never noticed it before. Well that's about it. I did have a nice experience yesterday waiting for the tram to go to church--I just felt such peace. Even though I could have been discouraged by everything I knew that what I'm doing is all the Lord expects and that's enough. I can't really describe it, but it was beautiful. I love my mission so much. Love you!! Sestra Cooper