This week went by so fast, that I really can't think of anything new to say, because it feels like I just barely e-mailed you.
Mom asked if we have sno cones here. We do not. We have "the best ice-cream ever" which I don't even understand, because it just tastes like ice-cream to me. There are ice-cream shops everywhere here, in Varazdin, too. Maybe when I go home the ice-cream there will taste really bad and I'll appreciate what I have here, but really it just tastes like ice-cream to me. I must be getting the wrong flavors, which does remind me that I tried kiwi-flavored ice-cream a couple months ago and it was really good. We do have good ice-cream bars though, that we buy from grocery stores. Those I can appreciate.
Also she asked whether or not we have ice. We do -- some restaurants give ice with water and others don't, and we have a regular-sized fridge/freezer here in Zadar, which isn't really normal for missionaries here a lot of them have small ones, so we freeze water in water bottles a lot. But I froze some and brought it with me here to the Internet place and it was already melted by the time I got here. It's a 20 minute walk. So the ice we do have isn't lasting very long.
I am sorry to hear that Kelsey broke her toe. I can't imagine having a broken toe. That is crazy. We use toes every single day. Glad to hear that everyone else's families aren't so accident-prone as Kelsey's, you all seemed to have survived the travel and everything. Thank you for the pictures from last weekend! It's good to see you and to see ALL the chidlers together.
Yesterday at church we had some families visiting, so Sister Nelson and I got to do primary again! It was triple-lingual because one girl didn't know a ton of English, so her dad translated for her, and then one boy and his family is from Utah so he speaks English, and a family that spoke Dutch! And the oldest sister knows English alright, so she translated for the younger two. It was really fun. I'll send you some pictures. There were 5 kids total. We taught a little impromptu lesson on Alma the Younger and how to be a missionary and then "did a puzzle" but the kids picked out the puzzle with the most pieces, so we didn't get anywhere with it.
And Sister Nelson just got an e-mail from her Dad today that said that he met, at Costco in Utah, some of our members from Zagreb who were visiting Zadar for a couple weeks ago, and are now visiting a senior couple who served here.
So, that doesn't make sense.
The Croatian members from Zagreb visited us in Zadar for a couple weeks. And then they went to Utah to visit a senior couple there, and Sister Nelson's Dad happened to meet them at Costco. Cool story, huh?
Have a great week!
Love you tons!
Sister Laws
Dad & Mom,
Every time I have a p-day and do Internet I think about how awesome my parents are and how much I love to hear from you. I'm grateful for all the news you give me and for all the support and testimony. Thank you for telling me about the Blue Angels coming to Idaho Falls and all about the primary activity, it does sound like it will be really good! And for telling me about golfing and toodling. I love being here on a mission and Sister Nelson is a really good companion. We work well together and just keep brainstorming How can we get more investigators? How can we connect with people? We have four investigators, plus some that are in-between investigating and not. Three are teenage girls, two whose Dad is a member, but their Mom isn't and won't let them get baptized. They come to church every week and are just waiting to be baptized, so they're very solid. The other girl has been busy busy busy this summer, so I've only met her once, but I've met her parents, too, and they said we can come over and she wants to learn, she just isn't putting it first, which is hard, but it also makes sense, because she's a teenager and it's summer. And our other investigator we just found, she has three kids who are teenage/young adult age, and we've only been able to meet with her once, because we dropped by a couple times over the weekend and she wasn't home. So we spend a TON of time tracting and contacting and we hear "Ja sam Katolik" about a hundred times a day, which means I'm Catholic, and basically that they aren't willing to budge. And we talk to other people that at least listen, even if they aren't interesting in learning more. We definitely are aware of the "crazies" -- we don't really contact a lot of men so we don't put ourselves into any situation that isn't safe or positive -- I know that God is protecting us and the Elders watch out for us and I know and see that God is helping us with the work here. It will be so great to see the church growing here and someday there will be wards and stakes here, and that will be wonderful to see. Seeing all these new places makes me want to share them all with my family, so I'm grateful that we can keep in touch!
Love you tons!
Keshia
Pictures:
Sister Nelson with a Dutch boy, Jake.
Sister Laws (me) with the two Dutch girls, Alisha and we can't remember the younger one's name.
Us with the family from Austria.
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