30 June
2014
Ahojky!
Phew.
I don't know what to say about this week. It was so schizophrenic--super great
experiences and super hard ones. But the work goes on! President is so
wonderful. I called him after a disaster of a law of chastity lesson (long
story short the boyfriend who introduced her to the church kind of took over
and gave excuse after excuse about how they can't possibly accept a date
because he's scared, so then she was just confused and questioning everything.
It just weakened her trust in us, which was frustrating). Anyways. you know
what President said? Sister Cooper, that doesn't sound like a disaster to me!
They both still want to get baptized, and you have a meeting set up! A disaster
would be them saying that they never want to see you again and that the church
is stupid. hahaha. And then he said he'll come down in a couple of weeks, we'll
teach it again with him bearing testimony and everything will be fine :) So
that helped a lot.
Oh
on the bright side, one of our new investigators is the girlfriend of a member
who we tried to teach my first transfer here, and she wasn't really interested.
But we went to visit him on
Saturday and he said, oh by the way, she wants to get baptized, you need
to teach her everything. And then they came to all 3 hours of church :) So that
was exciting ! Plus the people we've been working with to get them to the
Temple are both going on
Saturday! So great.
OH!
How could I forget?? The branch had a picnic on Friday at the home of a sister we work with,
her husband isn't a member and has never been interested. But we had a goal of
getting him to let us teach him, because she said he's been showing some
interest, but not enough to admit it. So we were talking to him at the picnic,
and he's like no no, I might believe in something, but I'm not going to turn
into a believer...etc. So we were thinking ok, maybe we shouldn't ask, don't
know if it would be too pushy....And then my comp was like are we doing it or
not? So I said, why not let's just ask. So she was like hele, muzeme prijit a
vam ucit? (hey can we come teach you?) And he said, sure why not, we can talk,
but you'll never convince me, set something up with my wife. Challenge
accepted!! He's never agreed to take the lessons even though members have been
trying for 20 years. So we are excited :) We'll start teaching him next week.
Miracles! He didn't say anything to his wife so when we told her on Sunday she was so
surprised :)
So
things are finally getting moving, I'm excited to teach more. I just love
teaching so much--it's definitely my favorite part of missionary work. I'm
trying to teach and testify more in contacts about the Restoration and it's
making a difference for sure. Church was really good yesterday but kind of hard
because I realized that I love the Czech people so much. And the language, as
hard as it is sometimes. I'm trying to make the most of it while I have the
chance to speak it every day--that is such a privilege. So that was really sad
to think that I don't have too many Sundays left. But a lot can happen in 6
weeks, so I intend to go out with a bang!
Love you!!!
Sestra Cooper
P.S. We played softball for sports day on Saturday because Gabca
has the equipment--SO FUN. And I'm SO SORE. Everywhere. Haven't sprinted like
that in forever. It was awesome. Dad you would be proud, I kept my elbow up and
made it on base every time :)
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