July 05, 2010

Hi family!
I heard from almost all of you this week! Yay! Just not Michael, the stinker.

And Welcome to the World Sophie! Guess what?? I still don't know her full name. Does she HAVE a middle name? I would really like to know what it is :) Thanks Kelsey for sending me some pictures, she looks like a cutie! And she also looks really different from your other children, from what I could tell. From what I remember when they were that old.

I'm grateful that everyone is traveling safely, keep it that way! :D

What can I say about this week? We've been working hard. We've been talking to lots of people. An older man that we talked to yesterday told me about Wimbledon, how Nadal beat a young Czech player in the final. And Dad told me that Nadal and S. Williams won, thank you. Tennis really is a distraction for me, :) because I LOVE hearing all about it, and I love thinking about it, too. That's probably the only type of entertainment that I'm genuinely missing. Movies and everything else will be there when I get home, but not live sports. Not the ones I missed, I mean.
Does anyone know how the world cup is going? Our neighbors the other night were watching it outside, all at a picnic table with a big tv.

Somehow it's cooler outside than inside, probably because of the breeze, and a lot of people don't have/don't use air conditioning, so the Croatians are always outside sitting on front porches or at cafes or balconies. We have a balcony, too, and we ate breakfast outside this morning, it was really nice.

And yesterday at church, we had a ton of people again! We started the meeting and then two young Austrian families came in, both with three children, and it was testimony meeting, so we had a triple lingual meeting, because they knew English so one bore his testimony in English and one of the elders translated into Croatian, and then another visitor bore his testimony in German and one of the members translated into Croatian! It was so fun. I guess we usually get a lot of visitors in the summer months, so we'll probably see that again! And Sister Nelson and I prepared a primary lesson, because we have a member family visiting Zadar from Zagreb this summer, and last week they stayed so we taught their two daughters, so when I saw all those kids come in I thought, this is going to be a really interesting primary today... but most of the visitors left right after Sacrament, so we didn't have to worry about primary at all. Phew!
After church we went to one of the elders' apartments and had a Fourth of July barbecue! It was fun, but we didn't have any fireworks, but actually, Saturday night someone set off some fireworks, they were really small and were halfway blocked by some other homes, but Sister Nelson and I went out on our porch and watched what we could see. I don't know why they set them off, it could have been for a wedding maybe.
Thanks for writing, I love hearing from everybody, I always read my e-mails and write down things that you've said that I like or is funny, and read it again later on p-day, or write about it in my journal, and I just like knowing what's going on with everything! It's fun.

Hugs and kisses for everyone and I hope everyone fits in Kelsey's house next weekend without too much chaos!

Love,
Sister Laws

Here are some pictures.
The one of the flower is just a really crazy-looking flower that we saw here, I have never seen anything like it and have no idea what it's called. But it's cool :)



And the other pictures are from last p-day when we went to Uglijan. It's a ruins or something, and it was a pretty good hike up to the top, and the island that it's on is called Preka or Preko, I can't remember which. And then a view from the ferry of the city of Zadar. So. U탑ivajte!






Keshia