Week 15 in Plzen...aaaah

12 May 2014 Ahoj! So that's super weird, I just realized I've been in Plzen longer than the time I have left as a missionary. aaaaaah. trying not to think about it....It was great to talk to you yesterday! Thanks for helping me feel a lot better about after-mission stuff, that was really helpful to realize that I don't have to figure out life on my own. Of course I wouldn't anyways but I think that was kind of in my head you know? Anyways....enough of that. I pretty much already told you about my week, so not sure what to say.....It was funny last night cause the zone leaders called for something (they are in my district) and they were like "are you aware that you gave the best missionary talk ever given in the mission?" haha I don't know that it was THAT good, but it was still nice to hear. I did feel pretty strongly inspired when I wrote it, so that was a neat experience. I think I already told you that I used Pres Uchtdorf's talk Are you sleeping through the restoration, but I basically just invited the whole branch to wake up, be engaged and work their hardest to serve others, work on their personal conversion and believe in miracles. Pretty bold...but what's the use in tiptoeing around it? we are soooo close to a stake! So close. I just want to do everything I can to help them believe it and work for it. I never realized how much I took it all for granted at home, having a patriarch, temples and everything. I'm just so excited for the Czech people to have it too. They've been waiting almost a century--the first missionaries got here in the 1930s. Actually the first one was in the 1800s. So long. This week was really awesome actually, since we found 4 new investigators! It actually would have been 6, which is insane, but two of them cancelled. So that was really exciting. Plus we taught the Restoration like 4 times--and there is just something really special about that. We've really been teaching by the Spirit and trying to teach to their needs, which meant that we had some fantastic lessons this week. Filip's was just amazing. I'm so excited about that. I realized during one of those lessons that I only have a limited amount of time left to be able to teach people about the gospel in such a bold and clear way--it really is such a privilege. I'm trying to just give my all every day and love every second of it--awkward moments and all. Well that's about it....Other news, my trainer is engaged! She sent me pictures today. Crazy.... She's getting married in June. We're going to another castle today, Kozel, with one of our investigators, so that should be fun. Trying to fit everything in.... love you! Sestra Cooper