Week 2 in Plzen

Feb 10 2014 Ahoj! Well it feels like a month since I last emailed, don't know why the week was sooo long. It's still cold, but not too bad and we still don't have any snow, which is crazy. I can't believe it snowed so much at home!!! I've never ever seen it like that. What is happening to the world? haha. The week was good though. Plzen is a little sketch compared to the part of Brno I was in before, so that's been interesting to say the least... But we have some cool new investigators, so that was exciting. And I just got an update on Constantin: "Hello! I'm Sora Hebdon and I am teaching Constantine's wife Alexandra. She is going to be baptized next week! Thank you so much for sending Constantine back to Romania with such a fire for the gospel, It's truly a wonderful thing to see. He talks about you all the time and says how much he loves you, which is why i wanted to write this message for you .After his wife is baptized, his sister in law will be baptized soon too! He is sharing the gospel like crazy with his whole city. I'm so grateful for you and for all your work in the Czech Republic. The gospel is spreading like fire over the whole world. Thank you thank you thank you!" aaaah I love it. I think about him every time we have a bad day. The elders here just started teaching another Romanian and he reminds me so much of Constantin, both the good and frustrating parts haha. So great. The gospel is just amazing. (ok the crazy thing is that investigator just came into the internet cafe we are at, and he was showing us random things about mormons on youtube, so we showed him how to get to the official website, not all the lies. Miracle!) Other things from this week... we had to take another last minute trip to Prague for visa stuff, but Sister Bruno has hers now, so that should be the last time. That was fun though cause I got to talk to Elder Hansen some more before he went home!! So weird. Everyone I know is finishing their missions and it's so sad! The time goes by so fast. Oh and mom you asked about the Martha Toronto book? Sister Munro gave me a copy but you can download it online. She said to just google Wallace Toronto and you should find the foundation's page with a link to it. So yay! You'll love it, it was so fascinating. It's really cool to be here in Plzen because we have some of the oldest members in the whole country. One old lady was baptized in 1948, which is amazing because almost all of our members were baptized 1991 or later for obvious reasons. So even the more experienced members have only been members for my lifetime. Crazy. Another one got sent to Germany by her parents at age 16 to get baptized in 1964 without even knowing anything about the church before she got there. It's so cool. I'm excited to see pictures and ask them more about what it was like. I gave a talk in church yesterday, which I was nervous about, but I think it was good cause I got to talk to almost all of the members, which was hard in Brno. There's about 30 that come to church here. Oh yeah funny story, we may have hopped a fence this week... Skirts and all. hahahaa. Thank goodness it was winter and we had leggings and boots on. We were looking for this inactive's house, and we finally found the panalak (apartment building) after walking around for forever...but it didn't have a door. (I wish I could show you the picture cause it's so much better, but I forgot my usb convertor) Anyways...It was connected to the other half of the building that was a lot nicer, so we rang a zvonek on that side and this guy came out and was like, asi vedle...(probably next door in the poorer part) So he lets us go through the building to the back and then shuts the door...right as we realize that the back parking lot has a fence around it, separating it from the side we want to be in....So we had to hop a fence to get out. (There are no doorbells on the back part) We were laughing so hard, like are we really doing this?? The adventures of being a missionary haha. I'm loving it, and I'm so exhausted, that about sums it up :) love you!!! Sestra Cooper