Week 1 in Plzen

3 Feb 2014 Zdar! It feels like forever since I got to email! Last week was the longest week of my life. But so fun. Well as you can see I got transferred to Plzen! Just got here a couple of hours ago. I'm really excited to serve here though, I've always wanted to, it's the city of miracles! (Basically C Bud in a year) And I'm serving with Sister Bruno, which I'm really excited about, she's awesome. It actually wasn't that hard to leave Brno surprisingly, because this feels right. Plus I know it's in good hands with Sister Senkane, she's a really good missionary. It was a little sad though cause I finally started to know more members better and then I have to leave. But it happens. I know I'm supposed to be here. Plus it's an odd sense of relief to not be spiritually responsible for all of our non progressing investigators--I think it's going to be like that when I get released, a lifting from the responsibility, but really bittersweet. Anyways. I do hope I get to go back for Diego's baptism, he was doing really well. I think that I needed to be in Brno for what I learned from my companions/taught them, more than the people I was able to help. And my testimony grew a lot in the last two transfers, which has been a gift. It really taught me to love the members, they are just incredible. And to love my mission. So I'm excited to serve here in Plzen, it's very likely that it will be my last area, can you believe it?? Unless President does something crazy and moves me for my last transfer. Who knows, anything is possible. I made it with all of my luggage without too much trouble, the elders even came with the car to get it, super nice. I'm super excited about this year though, we are putting a lot of emphasis on reactivation, we get to report less-actives just like investigators now, which is really cool. And we are SOO close to a stake. So we all have plans for our areas of how we are going to get our branches ready to be wards. It's going to be awesome! There's not too much more to say about last week, it was a lot of contacting in the cold, but we had fun with it. We got to explore different parts of Brno cause we were trying to track down some inactives, so that broke up the monotony. We did have this experience where we were looking for this one less-active and she no longer lived there. It was cold and dark and I was tempted to go home and just do some calls, but I remembered President's advice about how we are sent places sometimes to find people that are different than the ones we are expecting. So I followed the spirit and we went tracting near her house. Found a really cool teenager, she wasn't that interested but took a card, and I felt like she was the one we were supposed to talk to. So that was a neat experience. I've been working on putting in the same effort on the good and bad days, which is something that President has been stressing, and I think that's why this last week felt better even though we didn't have too many people to teach. That's my goal for this next transfer-to serve with all of my heart, even on the bad days! I even put that on my planner D&C 4 :) I'll have to show you them when I get home, or take a picture when I remember, cause I've decorated them all haha. The things missionaries do for entertainment.... love you!! Sestra Cooper