Week 14 in Plzen!

5 May 2014 Ahoj! Another week just flew by, I can't believe it's already halfway through the transfer! I started a package of winter stuff, so I'll probably send that home this week. Can't believe we get to skype on Sunday!! I feel like Christmas was just yesterday. So weird. I'm giving another talk on Sunday too, so hopefully that turns out well. What happened this week...we went to Prague twice and fasted twice haha, so the days are kind of blurred together in my head. We had training on Wednesday, which was fantastic as usual. And then we fasted on Friday cause our mission is having a 40 day fast--that has been so cool. We are having so much more success mission-wide, Prague has had a baptism every week but one this transfer and Plzen has 5 more scheduled for this end of this month. So cool! Miracles!! We are so going to have a stake by the end of the year. And we are having an area conference this summer i think, and a seventy, sister reeves and sister wixom are coming! that will be so cool. Saturday we had a little miracle, inspired by you Annica! A young man my companion had taught last transfer got baptized and we had no way to get there cause we thought we had to have an investigator or use it as our p-day. So i just said a little prayer that we could go somehow because she really wanted to be there. And then 10:25 at night, President called and approved the trip, we just had to shorten our P-day today. It was just really cool because I just knew that something was going to work out, even though my comp had kind of resigned herself to the fact that we weren't going. So that was really neat. Plus I got to see Vaclav again and congratulate him on being a member for almost a year! So crazy. It was really cool cause he was just thanking me for helping him join the church and I got his address so that I can send him a postcard from home. It's so cool to see that he's still active and doing great. Oh! and Constantin's son got baptized too :) They've officially started a group in his city and he's coming back to C Bud to work again. I guess President has been talking to the Romanian mission president and he was saying that they just love him over there :) Well that's about it, there's really nothing too exciting from this week, lots of cancelled lessons. But we have a cool new investigator and another one came to church for the first time! So we'll see what happens with them. Oh yeah! I almost forgot there was another miracle this week. The investigator who came to church for the first time has really strong ties to another church who hates mormons and she was always talking about "pani fararka" (a pastor) who keeps warning her against us. So on Tuesday we felt like we should go contacting along the river. So we did, but after an hour we didn't have a single number and we were kind of wondering why we felt like we should be there. But just then I contacted this woman with a dog, and guess who it turned out to be?? Yep the pastor. She wasn't super friendly, but I was able to at least introduce the Restoration and tell her that we were Christians (she really didn't know anything about us--kept asking if our church was registered here---we've been here since the 1930s). So that was really cool-I had to be pretty persistant because she kept trying to walk away, but at least she's met us now and we were pleasant. -she knows that we're not crazy at least! The Lord really does guide our steps :) love you!! Sestra Cooper