28
July 2014
Ahoj!
Well this week just
flew by! Syllvie's doing good, we've taught her everything but lesson 5 and
she's still loving it. She's so great. It was cool because she got to meet
President McConkie, and he asked her how she met us. She said, well I noticed
that everyone was avoiding walking towards them, so I went straight towards
them and they were just standing there "jako takovy slunička" like
little suns. (Sounds weird in English but it makes sense in Czech). That how
she describes the Spirit. It was cool to hear her side of the story, I love
that. She brought her boyfriend to Karelštejn on Saturday for the
branch activity and we are going to hopefully start teaching him this
week, so we'll see how that goes!
We went to
Karelštejn twice this week (it takes an hour and a half by train to get
there)...Thursday for specialized training and then Saturday with the branch.
It was fun though. Thursday was super surreal, because I had to say goodbye to
everyone...aaah. So weird. I was glad that all the Czechs were there though so
that I got to see everybody, not just Prague and HK zones. I was talking to
Sister Regnier about it and it just felt like a dream. At the end of every
transfer people get up and give their departing testimonies and you never think
it's going to be you! But it was good. We recreated the dedication meeting like
last year and it was short and sweet.
It was interesting
because the sisters in my group all mentioned very different things, but we've
all loved our missions. I think that's what I love most about it, that missions
are so personal. Everything you learn is tailor-fit to you, and the Lord knows
what experiences we each need to have in order to grow into the person he wants
us to be. It's amazing how much it has changed me, I feel so different from who
I was before. I'm just so grateful for that. Such a privilege. Sister
Hicken talked about the power of music and reactivation, Sister Regnier talked
about how at the end of your mission, the overwhelming question in your mind,
is did I make a difference? And Sister Donaldson talked about how she found the
letter she had written to herself in the MTC, and how her expectations for the
end of her mission were so much lower than what the Lord had on plan for
her--how we should raise our vision of our potential, because the Lord believes
in us. It was cool to see how much we've all changed. I talked about President
Eyring's quote "A person cannot give a crust to the Lord without receiving
a loaf in return" and how most of the time I didn't even realize the start
of miracles at the time--we were just doing what we were supposed to, and he
guided our steps more than I will probably ever know.
Well I think that's
about it, just a normal week this next week. Oh except my birthday is on
Wednesday haha. I keep forgetting. 23! aaaaah. I'm so old. I'm 3 years older
than my comp, that's so weird. It'll basically be a normal day anyways, except
we are having lunch at the Juraskovi and teaching the triplets--they said they
have presents for me, so that'll be fun :) Can't believe it's almost August!!
Time flies.
s laskou,
Sestra Cooper
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