Week 11 in Plzen

14 Apr 2014 Ahoj! This week felt so long but it was so good. We are teaching a lot and my new companion is AWESOME. She's so great. Such a blessing. We get along super well and are having so much fun. Plus we got to watch conference!! soooo good. As usual. Plus we had 5 investigators come! that was awesome. We made conference bingo for the little girls and they loved it :) We have 4 baptisms on plan for Saturday!! Plus one of the elders' investigators. I'm sooo excited. We are teaching them every night this week to get them ready, and have almost taught everything. It was really cool because the rest of them were feeling a little unsure, but the youngest Johanka was like, I want to be baptized 100% on Saturday! We asked her why and she said "chci byt jako vy!" (I want to be like you). It's so cute--but her faith is propelling the rest of her family to join her--they are all on board now. The mom still feels like she hasn't got an answer for sure, but she definitely wants it for her girls. And the other two said that they wanted to follow the steps of the gospel :) aaah they are the best. So we'll see what happens! We are going to fast with them this week so that the mom will get a testimony. Today we went to the easter markets and the zoo, that was fun. So windy though, we are getting a lot of april showers. It's good though cause I guess they are afraid of a drought this summer since it only snowed once this winter. Anyways. And then for fhe we are going to go to gabca's softball game to support her, so i'm excited for that :) Conference was the best. I loved Elder Holland's talk--it felt really good to relate to the persecution he was talking about, i've been sworn at and ignored and yelled at as a missionary. Luckily never spit upon yet. But the missionaries in Prague got egged at a singing display last week, so it felt really relevant to me. I feel proud to have experience with my "most cherished beliefs being reviled". That was what I was most afraid of when I was deciding if I wanted to serve or not, I wasn't sure if I could handle it. But it's not me at all, it's the strength that comes from the atonement--that testimony and love burning so bright that nothing can dim it. Doesn't make it easy, but it's just so worth it. Loved that. And I loved Elder Bednar's talk--going to have to study that one, I felt like I only got a glimpse of what he was trying to teach. It was so interesting to think about our "loads" being what give us the spiritual traction to make it back to God. I also loved the talk about the olympics-- "your 4 minutes" And I noticed all the preach my gospel references--they quoted from it sooo much. Conference is so great. love you! Sestra Cooper