She also said that she finds the busy roads frightening.[2] In 2011 Agafia formally re-joined Belokrinitskaya branch of Russian Old Believers Orthodox Church during a visit by Metropolitan Korniliy (Titov) coincidental with her 69th birthday.[5] In 2014, she wrote a letter that was published online, requesting anyone to come to her home to be her helper as her "health is waning".[6] She claimed in that letter to have "a lump on [her] right breast", a possible sign that she has developed cancer.[7]