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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