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
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