Hi family!
This week has been SPECTACULAR for me, and you all sounded great, too.
I got e-mails from every single one of you! yay!
You're all awesome.
I'm really excited for general conference this weekend - we almost weren't going to be able to watch it because none of the members have internet - or room for everyone to come over and watch - and the church's internet wasn't working, but the Elders figured it out yesterday, so it's conference time! yay!
It will be in Croatian, but still. I can't wait to have all the talks in my hands. And before I forget, someone from Sister Nelson's family sent her a copy of the dedicatory prayer for Croatia, or an article about it or something, so it's online somewhere! Check it out!
Our mission president said he'd get us a copy of it when he could, so that's cool. Glad to hear that Amelia had a great bday - it sounds like it was really awesome. And I'm happy that Mom had a safe trip to South Dakota. This morning before we came to internet I started thinking about "What if?"s like, what if Mom got in a car accident and was in the hospital on the verge of death and I don't know about it yet?
So I'm glad that I hear from you once a week, through the internet, instead of having to wait for hard-copy letters, because then I would make myself crazy! But usually I Don't worry about you all. Just sometimes when my imagination runs away.
So why was my week so great? We got FIVE new investigators! yay! Four of them are all part of one family, two teenage kids, a mom, and a grandma, and the other is a lady with a young son. I can't wait to keep teaching them!
Yesterday at church we had an old couple visiting from England, and I translated sacrament meeting for them O_o It's a TON easier to translate from Croatian to English than English to Croatian, I missed a LOT of stuff even then, and both the Elders were speaking, and missionaries are a lot easier to understand than members, but still.
It's pretty cool. We know this language!
It's crazy! Sometimes I think, I can't believe we talk to people every day in another language! It's cool.
We had interviews with President this week, he came down to Zadar with his wife, and she knows Russian and is learning Croatia, so we went out contacting with her while the Elders had their interviews! It was really fun. She didn't really end up saying a lot except for "Dobra večer, kako ste?" but she was really cute about it.
One thing that I'm so grateful that we have in this church is inspired leaders! We don't have to follow men, but men of God who speak for God and know what we need and are trustworthy! I don't know how other people are so trusting of their bishops and priests when we have PROPHETS and everyone else is just trying to guess. For example, we were talking to one lady a couple weeks ago and she was like, yeah, your church has a prophet and our church has the pope, who translates the scriptures and the will of God, it's the same thing. And I was like, I didn't say this, but I thought - that's not the same at all, our prophet KNOWS the will of God, he doesn't have to TRANSLATE it.
And I'm grateful that we have a loving God who gives us these prophets, so we know why we're here and what we're doing and didn't just through us to the earth to wander around. That is really great.
Another cool thing that happened: we were tracting and a Dad opened the door, he wasn't interested in learning more, didn't let us in, but we were talking to him and he was saying that he's in a klappa group, which is a traditional Croatian acapella (I can't remember how to spell that word, weird) singing group, and Sister Nelson was like, Do you have CDs? And he gave us a CD for free! He was so nice! We can't listen to it, because it isn't church music, but for later it will be AWESOME. It will be so fun to get to know this culture more in different ways when I get home - like listening to music and watching movies and stuff from here, that I can't do while we're misisonries.
And one more cool thing that I did this week: last p-day I bought a Croatian bible! It's so nice, it's like our scriptures with the tabs and everything, which most bibles aren't like that here, and it's really really fun to read, easier to understand than the Book of Mormon because it uses simpler language, and really fun. So that's exciting to me :)
Hope everyone has a great week and enjoys conference! I know I will.
Thanks for all the love and support!
Sister Laws
Monday, September 27, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
September 20, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMELIA!!!
You are 29, that is old. :D
How is my family doing?
I know that you're good, because I hear from you every week! Thank you!
Last p-day we went to Nin, which is the oldest town in Croatia, or something. But we were on this jampacked bus, and the bus driver stopped at one stop along the way, and Sister Nelson, who was the only one who had been to Nin before, thought it was our stop, so we had to hurry to get off, and the bus drove away, and then! we realized we were not in Nin. We had stopped at a small town with nothing in it, and the next bus wasn't for another hour! It was fun. We walked down to the seaside and took some pictures and then caught the bus again to Nin, where we didn't have a lot of time, but we saw the smallest Cathedral in the world, it was tiny, and we took some pictures. I'll send some. It was really funny.
And then on Friday we had Zone conference in Zagreb! Yay! It was really good to see all the missionaries in our mission, especially the ones that I've served with in Vara탑din and in Zadar last transfer, and it's awesome to get taught by our mission president, he is full of wisdom.
THE MOST EXCITING NEWS: two weeks ago Elder Nelson of the quorum of the 12 apostles visited Croatia, we knew he was coming, but we didn't know if we were allowed to tell you, becuase he came to give a new dedicatory prayer for Croatia!!!!! It's so exciting! We didn't get to be there or anything, but our zone leaders were there, and President Hill, and they told us a little about it at Zone meeting, and it's so cool. We'll get a copy later in the year, so I don't really know any specifics or anything at all about it, except that it's awesome, and I can't wait until I get to read it, and this is going to be a really really exciting time for this mission - the whole energy of getting together and talking about how we can be better missionaries and everything is just so awesome, and we are expecting results any day now! Haha, I can't predict when, but it's going to be great.
And for Zone meeting I met the other new Elder and Sister who came a couple weeks ago for the first time. It was fun, they are from Missouri and Utah. the Sister is Sister Stratton and Sister Nelson actually knew her from before the mission, so that's kinda fun, they went to BYU together.
Other than that it's missionary work!
We meet crazy people, we meet cool people, we have fun English classes and one student who may become an investigator - she's 71 and learning English and really cute, she was trying to pronounce the name "Elder Rhodes" and she was saying "Woldz" it was so funny - and I got a couple of letters when I was in Zagreb, one from my friend Sara, and one from my visiting teacher from the Idaho Falls ward, there wasn't one there from MICHAEL (fatting gerk :)), but I didn't know that wards gave Sister missionaries visiting teachers until Sister Nelson told me that hers sends her the newsletters and stuff, and then I thought, maybe that's just something her ward does, but then I got a letter from mine! So that's kinda a fun thing.
And being here is awesome, exciting, fun, awesome, sometimes I catch myself and think, I'm on a mission. That is so crazy! Just because I never expected that I would go on one, so it's crazy to see how I'm here and how I got here.
One thing that I studied this morning that was really cool was in Alma 31, I think verse 6 actually, that's crazy that I remember, but the chapter is about how Alma hears about the Zoramites and their wickedness, so he wants to go there and preach to them, and so he takes with him Ammon, Aaron and Omni (who were the missionaries who converted the anti-Lehi-Nephites) Amulek (who was with him in Ammonihah) Zeezrom (who was a wicked Ammonihite and was a lawyer who was very good at persuasion, and then became converted) and two of his sons. And when I read that this morning I thought that was so cool, because it's such a powerful force of missionaries! And then later in the chapter Alma prayed for himself, the other missionaries, and the people of the Zoramites, and then the last verse says "and it was according to the words of Alma, for he prayed in faith" or something like that. Which is really great, that he had such great faith. And I'm reading the New Testament, too, not very fast, but it's really cool to read about what a great teacher Jesus Christ was.
Oh, and we're trying to get better at contacting, and one of the things we decided to do was not so the word "poruka" when we're talking to people, which means message, because people tend to walk away after we say that word. So the past couple days every time we say the word poruka we have to do 5 push-ups at the end of the night. The first night we did 15, and last night we did 5, and my arms are sore! I haven't done push-ups in a long time :(
Thanks for all the news and updates, that's cool that Justin got a job at Hastings, sounds like a good job, and that Olivia still doesn't have to do chemo, and that everyone is travelling around visiting each other in safety.
Mom, I definitely need the recipe for coleslaw or whatever, because we don't even have kraft brand here. So when you can that would be great, and whichever other cooking ideas you come up with would be fun!
Thanks for all the love and support! Happy Birthday Amelia again!
Love,
Sister Laws
I almost forgot the pictures.
Here they are!
The first one is of a church in Ko탑ina - the place we accidentally stopped by on our way to Nin!
And then in Nin, with a palm, fortune reading machine.
Then in Nin with the smallest Cathedral in the world
And last night's sunset! near our house
Love you!
Keshia
You are 29, that is old. :D
How is my family doing?
I know that you're good, because I hear from you every week! Thank you!
Last p-day we went to Nin, which is the oldest town in Croatia, or something. But we were on this jampacked bus, and the bus driver stopped at one stop along the way, and Sister Nelson, who was the only one who had been to Nin before, thought it was our stop, so we had to hurry to get off, and the bus drove away, and then! we realized we were not in Nin. We had stopped at a small town with nothing in it, and the next bus wasn't for another hour! It was fun. We walked down to the seaside and took some pictures and then caught the bus again to Nin, where we didn't have a lot of time, but we saw the smallest Cathedral in the world, it was tiny, and we took some pictures. I'll send some. It was really funny.
And then on Friday we had Zone conference in Zagreb! Yay! It was really good to see all the missionaries in our mission, especially the ones that I've served with in Vara탑din and in Zadar last transfer, and it's awesome to get taught by our mission president, he is full of wisdom.
THE MOST EXCITING NEWS: two weeks ago Elder Nelson of the quorum of the 12 apostles visited Croatia, we knew he was coming, but we didn't know if we were allowed to tell you, becuase he came to give a new dedicatory prayer for Croatia!!!!! It's so exciting! We didn't get to be there or anything, but our zone leaders were there, and President Hill, and they told us a little about it at Zone meeting, and it's so cool. We'll get a copy later in the year, so I don't really know any specifics or anything at all about it, except that it's awesome, and I can't wait until I get to read it, and this is going to be a really really exciting time for this mission - the whole energy of getting together and talking about how we can be better missionaries and everything is just so awesome, and we are expecting results any day now! Haha, I can't predict when, but it's going to be great.
And for Zone meeting I met the other new Elder and Sister who came a couple weeks ago for the first time. It was fun, they are from Missouri and Utah. the Sister is Sister Stratton and Sister Nelson actually knew her from before the mission, so that's kinda fun, they went to BYU together.
Other than that it's missionary work!
We meet crazy people, we meet cool people, we have fun English classes and one student who may become an investigator - she's 71 and learning English and really cute, she was trying to pronounce the name "Elder Rhodes" and she was saying "Woldz" it was so funny - and I got a couple of letters when I was in Zagreb, one from my friend Sara, and one from my visiting teacher from the Idaho Falls ward, there wasn't one there from MICHAEL (fatting gerk :)), but I didn't know that wards gave Sister missionaries visiting teachers until Sister Nelson told me that hers sends her the newsletters and stuff, and then I thought, maybe that's just something her ward does, but then I got a letter from mine! So that's kinda a fun thing.
And being here is awesome, exciting, fun, awesome, sometimes I catch myself and think, I'm on a mission. That is so crazy! Just because I never expected that I would go on one, so it's crazy to see how I'm here and how I got here.
One thing that I studied this morning that was really cool was in Alma 31, I think verse 6 actually, that's crazy that I remember, but the chapter is about how Alma hears about the Zoramites and their wickedness, so he wants to go there and preach to them, and so he takes with him Ammon, Aaron and Omni (who were the missionaries who converted the anti-Lehi-Nephites) Amulek (who was with him in Ammonihah) Zeezrom (who was a wicked Ammonihite and was a lawyer who was very good at persuasion, and then became converted) and two of his sons. And when I read that this morning I thought that was so cool, because it's such a powerful force of missionaries! And then later in the chapter Alma prayed for himself, the other missionaries, and the people of the Zoramites, and then the last verse says "and it was according to the words of Alma, for he prayed in faith" or something like that. Which is really great, that he had such great faith. And I'm reading the New Testament, too, not very fast, but it's really cool to read about what a great teacher Jesus Christ was.
Oh, and we're trying to get better at contacting, and one of the things we decided to do was not so the word "poruka" when we're talking to people, which means message, because people tend to walk away after we say that word. So the past couple days every time we say the word poruka we have to do 5 push-ups at the end of the night. The first night we did 15, and last night we did 5, and my arms are sore! I haven't done push-ups in a long time :(
Thanks for all the news and updates, that's cool that Justin got a job at Hastings, sounds like a good job, and that Olivia still doesn't have to do chemo, and that everyone is travelling around visiting each other in safety.
Mom, I definitely need the recipe for coleslaw or whatever, because we don't even have kraft brand here. So when you can that would be great, and whichever other cooking ideas you come up with would be fun!
Thanks for all the love and support! Happy Birthday Amelia again!
Love,
Sister Laws
I almost forgot the pictures.
Here they are!
The first one is of a church in Ko탑ina - the place we accidentally stopped by on our way to Nin!
And then in Nin, with a palm, fortune reading machine.
Then in Nin with the smallest Cathedral in the world
And last night's sunset! near our house
Love you!
Keshia
Monday, September 13, 2010
September 13, 2010
Hi family!
Good to hear from you. Especially from my sisters - you're all moms and your kids are all so cute! Thank you for the pictures and updates! I love seeing and hearing about your spawn.
It was great to see the ultrasound and hear that Amelia is due on March 23, it's exciting and it's really going to happen! There's a baby in there!
Kelsey, that hike sounded like it went great! Just kidding, but it's fun to hear your crazy stories, I liked the one about you waking up to Austin laughing at the movie you were watching. That's really funny.
And Jesse, Jude sounds so cute! He's got such personality already, making noises and smiling at everything. It's so much fun for me to hear about them all.
Thanks for updating me on tennis. Sigh. It's not like Roger Federer losing in the semi-finals is the end of the world, though. It's cool that Djoković is in the final, or was in the final, actually, with the time difference I can't tell if the final has happened yet. Anyway, that's cool, because he's from Serbia! I don't know if the Croatians will be happy or sad if he wins, though. I would think they'd be happy, because it's former yugoslavia and it's another small slavic country, but it is Serbia. There's a good chance I won't even hear anything about it, though.
So what have I done this week? We taught a record high number of lessons! For me anyway, not for the mission or the area or Sister Nelson or anything like that. Just for me. It's good to be teaching more and good to be understanding more! And participating more! The language is coming, and it's great! I love Croatian. Some days I don't, but for the most part I do.
I tripped this week. We were walking through a rocky dirt field type thing, and there was a small round metal thing, I stepped on it with one foot and the other foot caught the edge and I fell! Scraped my hand up and bruised my leg, but nothing really serious. It's just funny. Luckily no one was really around to see it. Sister Nelson didn't even see it, because she was walking ahead of me.
And we started another round of English classes this week, we're teaching beginners and we have 5 old people coming! It's funny, because a couple of them know zero English, and we get to walk them through everything step by step, very slowly. But it's good to have a bigger class.
Oh! We met some kids, a 13-year old and 12-year old boys, and the 12-year-old reminded me of Brent a TON. He was like a mini Brent. Same build, dark hair, same face kinda, and when he talked had some of the same whatchacallems: like he shrugged and shifted his feet the same way that Brent sometimes does. mannerisms, some of the same mannerisms. It was crazy. They were good kids, they wanted the Book of Mormon! It was cool, but we didn't have any and so we told them to come to church yesterday to get copies and they didn't. We know where one of them lives, so hopefully we can get in touch with them again.
Love you all!
Sister Laws
Hey Mom, for some reason I can't remember for definite if you were Catholic before or not. I'm pretty positive that you were, so I'm wondering if you remember some of the ceremonies that they do, like communion and stuff, and if you could tell me a little bit about that, like what age, what it's for, when you "received the Holy Ghost" itd.
We're just trying to better understand these people!
And one of the recipes you gave me asks for something weird, I can't remember what it was... I can't remember the word... coleslaw. One recipe requires coleslaw stuff, what's something that I could substitute that for? Or how do I make that? Because we don't have anything exactly like that here.
Thanks! Love you tons!
Good to hear from you. Especially from my sisters - you're all moms and your kids are all so cute! Thank you for the pictures and updates! I love seeing and hearing about your spawn.
It was great to see the ultrasound and hear that Amelia is due on March 23, it's exciting and it's really going to happen! There's a baby in there!
Kelsey, that hike sounded like it went great! Just kidding, but it's fun to hear your crazy stories, I liked the one about you waking up to Austin laughing at the movie you were watching. That's really funny.
And Jesse, Jude sounds so cute! He's got such personality already, making noises and smiling at everything. It's so much fun for me to hear about them all.
Thanks for updating me on tennis. Sigh. It's not like Roger Federer losing in the semi-finals is the end of the world, though. It's cool that Djoković is in the final, or was in the final, actually, with the time difference I can't tell if the final has happened yet. Anyway, that's cool, because he's from Serbia! I don't know if the Croatians will be happy or sad if he wins, though. I would think they'd be happy, because it's former yugoslavia and it's another small slavic country, but it is Serbia. There's a good chance I won't even hear anything about it, though.
So what have I done this week? We taught a record high number of lessons! For me anyway, not for the mission or the area or Sister Nelson or anything like that. Just for me. It's good to be teaching more and good to be understanding more! And participating more! The language is coming, and it's great! I love Croatian. Some days I don't, but for the most part I do.
I tripped this week. We were walking through a rocky dirt field type thing, and there was a small round metal thing, I stepped on it with one foot and the other foot caught the edge and I fell! Scraped my hand up and bruised my leg, but nothing really serious. It's just funny. Luckily no one was really around to see it. Sister Nelson didn't even see it, because she was walking ahead of me.
And we started another round of English classes this week, we're teaching beginners and we have 5 old people coming! It's funny, because a couple of them know zero English, and we get to walk them through everything step by step, very slowly. But it's good to have a bigger class.
Oh! We met some kids, a 13-year old and 12-year old boys, and the 12-year-old reminded me of Brent a TON. He was like a mini Brent. Same build, dark hair, same face kinda, and when he talked had some of the same whatchacallems: like he shrugged and shifted his feet the same way that Brent sometimes does. mannerisms, some of the same mannerisms. It was crazy. They were good kids, they wanted the Book of Mormon! It was cool, but we didn't have any and so we told them to come to church yesterday to get copies and they didn't. We know where one of them lives, so hopefully we can get in touch with them again.
Love you all!
Sister Laws
Hey Mom, for some reason I can't remember for definite if you were Catholic before or not. I'm pretty positive that you were, so I'm wondering if you remember some of the ceremonies that they do, like communion and stuff, and if you could tell me a little bit about that, like what age, what it's for, when you "received the Holy Ghost" itd.
We're just trying to better understand these people!
And one of the recipes you gave me asks for something weird, I can't remember what it was... I can't remember the word... coleslaw. One recipe requires coleslaw stuff, what's something that I could substitute that for? Or how do I make that? Because we don't have anything exactly like that here.
Thanks! Love you tons!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
September 06, 2010
Family!
I just wrote you. SERIOUSLY. Time is that way right now. That sentence makes more sense in Croatian: Vrijeme je tako sada. Croatian is so cool! It makes so much sense. I don't know very much still, but what I'm learning is making more and more sense, I mean. And I'm understanding people a TON better than I was when I got here, that is for SURE. Malo po malo.
How is everyone? Everyone sounds like it's going good. We had a REALLY GOOD week here in Croatia. In the last week we've been let in 6 times tracting, which is like a miracle! Really, here it is a miracle, and it is so great to be a missionary!
Some of the coolest stories: one of the people we tracted into said the closing prayer, or rather said "Očenaš" which is the Lord's Prayer, and while it's not necessarily a cool thing to teach someone how to pray and them refuse to do it, it was pretty cool to watch the recited prayer. Just for the cultural side of the whole thing, being here in Croatian where everyone is Catholic, it was a cool experience.
We also met a couple who has met with the missionaries before and had a list of things wrong with the Book of Mormon/the Church versus things said in the Bible. It was interesting, but it really strengthened my testimony of the Book of Mormon, because I can say, 100%, that I have read the book and I feel that it's true, so I KNOW that it's true. I know how happy I felt the first time I read it all the way through, I remember that, and I know how I feel when I read it now. It's such a great book!
The weirdest thing that happened to us this week, was we met a lady on the street and we told her about English classes, and she says she has a son who would be interested, and he's lonely, and he's great, and he doesn't have a girlfriend, and he lives at home, and he's so great, and on. And she was saying how she liked the look of Sister Nelson, she liked the way we were dressed, and all this stuff. It was so weird! Sister Nelson just thought it was funny, but I was like, we need to get out of here, she's crazy! she's practically setting us up with her son! It was so weird. I hope he doesn't come to English classes.
The same day we met a lady from California - she had such a weird accent! Really, it was weird to hear REALLY American English. I think that's probably a good sign for us.
On Saturday we went to a member's house for lunch, it was so great! She is well-known for her cooking skills and the food was great, and the place is about 20 minute drive from Zadar, Petrčan, she has a house there and an apartment here, and it was such great food. First course, we had tortellini. Then we had a really disgusting purple salad type thing, I finished my plate of it, but it was pretty gross. And we had fried pork type thing, and the BEST red soupy type thing, it was REALLY REALLY good, and she just kept telling us to take more, which wasn't really hard. And then we had a dessert - I don't like the desserts so much here, the certain kind that we had, because it can be kinda greasy, but if she had given us smaller pieces it would have been better. I think that was all. Her house was really nice and it was a very pretty place. I'll send some pictures.
On the same night we had a lady threaten to call the police, we had a man threaten us with his dog, but that was funny, because we had passed his house twice already, and the dog was big, but he didn't even bark at us. We have dogs bark at us all the time, but he didn't even bark, he just looked at us. And so the guy was on his porch, and we said "we have a message for you --" and he was like, "oh, we're not interested, we don't have time, we have a really big dog, he's really big, you should go, he's a big dog." or something like that, it was so funny. I was like, OK, we'll go, you have the nicest big dog in all of Zadar, but we'll go. No, I didn't say that, but it was funny. And then that same night, we were tracting, and there was an older lady, pretty nice, but she was saying that she didn't have time, that she was helping her husband right now to bathe (she didn't say what was wrong with him, but she was helping him bathe, so maybe he was paralyzed or something, we don't know) but Sister Nelson didn't hear her exactly, so she said, "Možemo li vam pomoći?" which means, can we help you? So she offered this lady to help bathe her husband, it was so funny! The lady was like, "my husband is really old, do you understand?" And I was like, in english, "Sister Nelson, she's helping her husband bathe!" And we said Ok, bye, and then we just sat on the stairs laughing. It was too funny!
And that was basically my whole week! It's always so much fun to hear from you all! Even though I say, every week, that it feels like I just wrote you, I always can't wait to hear what you've been up to! Thanks for keeping me up to date on tennis (as much as you can, anyway, without dish :)) And your comings and goings. Question: What is "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World"? Is it a movie? Kelsey mentioned some movies a few weeks ago, or maybe it was more like a month or more ago, and I didn't reocgnize the titles at all, and it made me realize how fast the entertainment industry moves on, because none of the movies that I knew of before the mission matter anymore, and every single week there are more new movies to see and there's now way I could ever keep up with it all. Not that I have to. I don't, but it's interesting. And what is the title for the new Hunger Games book? Maybe I can glean some of the plot from the title and I won't have to wait another year (exactly) to know what it's all about. Again, not that it matters right now, but it's fun. Tell me all about it!
Mom, have fun in South Dakota, when are you going? You didn't say exactly. And Kelsey, have fun in Hawaii. I'll count down the days with you. That sounds pretty much awesome. But I guess I'm on the beach, too! Walking by it in my skirt anyway. Every day. Ah, it's great to be in Zadar :)
Thank you for sharing your testimonies with me! Love you tons! Have a great week!
Sister Laws
I didn't take a ton on my camera, so there's only one. Sister Nelson and me with two members here: on the left, Sister Verica Bogdan, and on the right Sister Anka Gr탑an. It's Anka's house that we went to!
Lots of love!
Sister Laws
I just wrote you. SERIOUSLY. Time is that way right now. That sentence makes more sense in Croatian: Vrijeme je tako sada. Croatian is so cool! It makes so much sense. I don't know very much still, but what I'm learning is making more and more sense, I mean. And I'm understanding people a TON better than I was when I got here, that is for SURE. Malo po malo.
How is everyone? Everyone sounds like it's going good. We had a REALLY GOOD week here in Croatia. In the last week we've been let in 6 times tracting, which is like a miracle! Really, here it is a miracle, and it is so great to be a missionary!
Some of the coolest stories: one of the people we tracted into said the closing prayer, or rather said "Očenaš" which is the Lord's Prayer, and while it's not necessarily a cool thing to teach someone how to pray and them refuse to do it, it was pretty cool to watch the recited prayer. Just for the cultural side of the whole thing, being here in Croatian where everyone is Catholic, it was a cool experience.
We also met a couple who has met with the missionaries before and had a list of things wrong with the Book of Mormon/the Church versus things said in the Bible. It was interesting, but it really strengthened my testimony of the Book of Mormon, because I can say, 100%, that I have read the book and I feel that it's true, so I KNOW that it's true. I know how happy I felt the first time I read it all the way through, I remember that, and I know how I feel when I read it now. It's such a great book!
The weirdest thing that happened to us this week, was we met a lady on the street and we told her about English classes, and she says she has a son who would be interested, and he's lonely, and he's great, and he doesn't have a girlfriend, and he lives at home, and he's so great, and on. And she was saying how she liked the look of Sister Nelson, she liked the way we were dressed, and all this stuff. It was so weird! Sister Nelson just thought it was funny, but I was like, we need to get out of here, she's crazy! she's practically setting us up with her son! It was so weird. I hope he doesn't come to English classes.
The same day we met a lady from California - she had such a weird accent! Really, it was weird to hear REALLY American English. I think that's probably a good sign for us.
On Saturday we went to a member's house for lunch, it was so great! She is well-known for her cooking skills and the food was great, and the place is about 20 minute drive from Zadar, Petrčan, she has a house there and an apartment here, and it was such great food. First course, we had tortellini. Then we had a really disgusting purple salad type thing, I finished my plate of it, but it was pretty gross. And we had fried pork type thing, and the BEST red soupy type thing, it was REALLY REALLY good, and she just kept telling us to take more, which wasn't really hard. And then we had a dessert - I don't like the desserts so much here, the certain kind that we had, because it can be kinda greasy, but if she had given us smaller pieces it would have been better. I think that was all. Her house was really nice and it was a very pretty place. I'll send some pictures.
On the same night we had a lady threaten to call the police, we had a man threaten us with his dog, but that was funny, because we had passed his house twice already, and the dog was big, but he didn't even bark at us. We have dogs bark at us all the time, but he didn't even bark, he just looked at us. And so the guy was on his porch, and we said "we have a message for you --" and he was like, "oh, we're not interested, we don't have time, we have a really big dog, he's really big, you should go, he's a big dog." or something like that, it was so funny. I was like, OK, we'll go, you have the nicest big dog in all of Zadar, but we'll go. No, I didn't say that, but it was funny. And then that same night, we were tracting, and there was an older lady, pretty nice, but she was saying that she didn't have time, that she was helping her husband right now to bathe (she didn't say what was wrong with him, but she was helping him bathe, so maybe he was paralyzed or something, we don't know) but Sister Nelson didn't hear her exactly, so she said, "Možemo li vam pomoći?" which means, can we help you? So she offered this lady to help bathe her husband, it was so funny! The lady was like, "my husband is really old, do you understand?" And I was like, in english, "Sister Nelson, she's helping her husband bathe!" And we said Ok, bye, and then we just sat on the stairs laughing. It was too funny!
And that was basically my whole week! It's always so much fun to hear from you all! Even though I say, every week, that it feels like I just wrote you, I always can't wait to hear what you've been up to! Thanks for keeping me up to date on tennis (as much as you can, anyway, without dish :)) And your comings and goings. Question: What is "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World"? Is it a movie? Kelsey mentioned some movies a few weeks ago, or maybe it was more like a month or more ago, and I didn't reocgnize the titles at all, and it made me realize how fast the entertainment industry moves on, because none of the movies that I knew of before the mission matter anymore, and every single week there are more new movies to see and there's now way I could ever keep up with it all. Not that I have to. I don't, but it's interesting. And what is the title for the new Hunger Games book? Maybe I can glean some of the plot from the title and I won't have to wait another year (exactly) to know what it's all about. Again, not that it matters right now, but it's fun. Tell me all about it!
Mom, have fun in South Dakota, when are you going? You didn't say exactly. And Kelsey, have fun in Hawaii. I'll count down the days with you. That sounds pretty much awesome. But I guess I'm on the beach, too! Walking by it in my skirt anyway. Every day. Ah, it's great to be in Zadar :)
Thank you for sharing your testimonies with me! Love you tons! Have a great week!
Sister Laws
I didn't take a ton on my camera, so there's only one. Sister Nelson and me with two members here: on the left, Sister Verica Bogdan, and on the right Sister Anka Gr탑an. It's Anka's house that we went to!
Lots of love!
Sister Laws
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