Cau vsichni! 9 June 2014 So dream come true, I'm staying in Plzen with Sister Rosenvall!! Phew. We were pretty convinced that was going to happen but of course the night before transfer calls we were freaking out and I thought I was going to go to Slovakia and she thought she was going to Brno haha. But nope! It's good that we are both staying because we have a super cool new progressing investigator and we just started doing singing time in Primary :) I don't even know how to describe this week, it was the longest week of my life! haha. But a lot of really cool things happened. I don't know if you remember Diego, the Italian man I was teaching in Brno? We found him in November. But he got baptized on Saturday!!! Super cool--he's the first person I actually found who's made it to baptism. So that was really nice to hear :) This last transfer was insane in terms of baptisms, we had 29 total across the mission in two months. And 7 of those were in Plzen (the elders baptized a mom and her son on Saturday ) :) The Lord is hastening His work! So awesome.
The other really cool thing that happened was on Tuesday, Elder Kearon of the Seventy, Sister Wixom (primary general president) and Sister Reeves (2nd counselor in Relief Society) came to visit Prague. We got to go with some members and investigators to the special fireside. It was sooo good for the members because they did leadership training for the auxilaries. Plus it was neat for me and my comp because Sister McConkie asked us to bring Sister Reeves upstairs to their apartment so we got to meet them all and hug them. That was cool--they brought such spiritual maturity with them when they talked--I don't know quite how to describe it, but the church is so young here that there is definitely a difference. It was good to be reminded that we aren't the only ones on the battlefield so to speak--they talked about how they were waiting in a line at the airport in Portugual when the lady in front of them found out it would be 10 min longer wait and commented on how 10 minutes can be soo long. Sister Reeves said they looked at each other and then started talking to her about the gospel. haha love it!
In terms of the work it was a pretty rough week, we got dropped by almost all of our investigators and all the potentials either dogged us or didn't answer their phones. So that was kind of frustrating. We also had an interesting experience the other day with this lady on the street who just started yelling at us about how the bible is enough, how she already knows everything from the internet etc...it was just interesting because she was so angry, and if she had listened to what we were saying we would have been able to answer all of her questions. But all we could do was not get mad back, be patient and bear our testimonies. Finally at the end she stopped long enough for me to state our message of the restoration and testify about it and invite her to find out for herself, and then she apologized and wished us luck. It was just kind of bizarre, but a good experience-- sharing your testimony really is the only thing you can do when that happens.
But Kat'ka, our progressing investigator is doing awesome--she's the one I mentioned last week, the girlfriend of the elder's investigator? We had an amazing lesson with her--we aren't really sure what changed. But we taught Restoration and she had studied Alma 32 (even marked it up) and prayed for the first time in her life. She said she felt "love towards something and love back towards her" so she knows that something is there, and that she's excited to learn more about who God is so she can know if it's him. SO COOL. We just walked out of there in shock haha. I don't know why it still surprises me that what we teach actually works when people are willing to try it! That's the hardest part, is getting them to just try it, to read and to pray. If they do that, they will get an answer, and it will change their life :)
This transfer is just going to fly by, so I refuse to get depressed about not having any investigators--we are going to find some despite the blazing heat and being disgustingly sweaty haha--summer has officially hit! Plus we've made a lot of progress with less-actives and helping out the branch. And we have a goal of running every day because we got fed waaay too much this week and czech food is all potatoes and butter and meat, I refuse to go home fat!!! hahaha. At least we're on the same page--comp unity :) And I'm almost done with my last two language levels! yayyy sklonovani (cases) takes foorrever to pass off. We have a member of the area presidency coming to our next training in two weeks, so I'm excited about that. Good things are happening! love you sooooo much Sestra Cooper
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