Jun 14, 2010

Happy Birthday Austin!

Hi family,

How's it going? Business first:
Michael, which e-mail are you using? Because Mom told me your new one, but you wrote me from your old one, and now I'm not sure.
Mother, a heel strap sounds fine. That would probably be best. Since you haven't sent the package that I've been anxiously awaiting, I wonder if you could send me a purse of some sort. I packed my purses in that gray bag, I have no idea what happened to it, and I'm not sure if they're all in there. The one I was thinking of is the really small blue one, that I used a lot, that is really small. If you can't find it then don't worry about it, I've been meaning to buy one, so I have something to use on p-days instead of my backpack, so I will do that if you can't find my purses or don't feel like looking.
Kelsey, I saw that Austin was reading Harry Potter. What!? That is so bizarre! It looked like he was on number 4 at least! How time flies. I cannot believe that he is 9, and I'm sure you cannot believe it even more than me.
Oh, and Mom asked me if I'd met Cody Fowler, a lady she works with is friends with him somehow. Yes, I met him. He is serving in Slovenia, he's the zone leader there, and he came down to Varaždin to have an exchange with the Elders here. He's nice.

And now: the news: Last p-day we went to the town cemetary and took pictures, we heard from one of our English students that we HAD to go see it because it was so historical, but it was not extremely exciting. The longest-ago date was someone born in 1777. The front was a lot cooler it had statues and stuff, the back was really modern and boring. Oh, I'll probably send some pictures next week, I don't have the right cord this week. Tuesday was nothing special or Wednesday. Or Thursday. On Friday, we had district lunch. We went to the Mexican restaurant that we've been to once before. It was good, but Sister Whitaker wasn't feeling well and so we left a little early and kind of in a hurry, so I didn't finish my food. And when we were walking home we didn't get very far before she got dizzy and had to sit down. And so I was just hanging out and I looked over and Sister Whitaker was having a seizure!! Not a big one, no frothing at the mouth or jerking-head, but her arms were jerking a little and her eyes were rolled back and it was, to say the least, a little scary. She came out of it quickly, and we called Sister Hill, the mission president's wife, and she called the doctor and we didn't have to go to the hospital or anything. Sis. Whitaker has passed out a little in the past and the doc said because of the heat and everything that the seizure was just a side-effect type of thing. Nothing serious. Nothing contagious. But we still spent the day indoors so she could rest itd. So.
On Saturday we went down to Zagreb for zone conference. It was extremely good. We had a Seventy visiting us, Elder Sterri from Finland, and it was fun. We stayed the night - all the sisters stayed in one place, it was fun to get to know them better! - because we had district conference on Sunday, which is our stake conference, since we don't have any stakes here. So all the missionaries stayed for that, too, and lots of members came from all over Croatia, and we had Elder Sterri speak to us there, too, and we went to two sessions, because they had a leadership session after the regular one that we were invited to, so we didn't get home to Varaždin until it was late. But it was really good, I wish I had my notes with me and I would tell you some of the stuff he told us. Like from Alma 32 on faith. That was good. We only read two versus, but there was a lot in them.
Today, this morning/afternoon, we went to Trakoščan! It's a famous castle on a lake an hour away from here. Very very pretty. And the inside of it is a museum, which is really cool. We just bought tickets to go in and then walked around, they don't have tour-guides or anything, so we went at our own pace and found a hidden passageway in one of the rooms. It wasn't very hidden, and it wasn't really a passageway, it was more like an attic, but it was still really cool. And I took lots of pics. It made me tired because of the sun, it's been so nice and sunny the last week! And that's it.
Next week is transfers, so by next P-day I will know whether or not I am staying in Varaždin and if Sister Whitaker will still be my companion. It's fun, we have a lot of transfers hype because a lot of the Elders are into making predictions about where people will go, and I tried it out, I doubt I got anything right, though. So it will be fun to see! But we don't have any new missionaries coming this transfer, next transfer we will, though. So that's for sure everything I can think of!
Hope everyone has a good week, can't wait to hear when Kelsey has her baby, and how everyone is doing.

Love you,
Sister Laws