Which means it was general conference! Yay!!!!!
I loved General Conference. We watched it in the branch presidents office, we fit about 15 chairs in there and we did it ALL in Croatian.
Well, all that we could watch, because only the two morning sessions are at reasonable times here in Croatia. Saturday we made a branch dinner at 4:30 and then watched from 6-8p and then on Sunday we watched from 6-8. We had fast Sunday too, because we didn't cancel church, because we could watch conference without cancelling church!
So. The Croatian was played as an audio, but we pulled up a video file too, and watched the speakers while we listened to the Croatian translation.
Aren't our leaders the best ever? Sister Nelson and I made an awesome coloring sheet, too, I'll send some pictures, that we used and gave to the kids that came. So much fun!
Other than that:
IT'S OCTOBER!
How is everyone doing?
All your e-mails sounded great and I'm happy to hear from you ALL again this week. Last Monday at FHE one of the members made potatoes... for dessert! (For me, since I'm from Idaho :D) It was the weirdest thing I've ever eaten, I think. It was sweet with plums inside. I didn't know potatoes could be made like that. But the texture was a little bit too much for me. I didn't really like it.
One of my favorite things that I've had here, though, is stuffed peppers! It's not just a Croatian thing, because Sister Nelson's dad makes them and she's had them at home, and they are so good! ground beef and rice, stuffed in peppers, and cooked in the oven with whatever sauce or spices. I don't know exactly how I'd make it, but we had some this week at a restaurant and it was super super good.
And on Friday I made Mom's bowtie pasta salad recipe! It's so good! I think the coleslaw recipe that Mom gave me is a little different, but it worked out just great. We still have a little, I ate some for lunch before I came here.
I made it while Sister Nelson took a nap, because she has been sick this week. I'm crossing my fingers that I don't get her cold. We'll see, the Elders were sick this week, too, so it would be pretty hard to not get sick at this point. I'll try.
ALSO on Friday, the assistants to the president came down from Ljubljana and brought our mail and I got something from Jesse! It was a picture book of Jude and it was SO CUTE! Thank you thank you thank you! He's a cutie, and it was a fun fun surprise.
Earlier on Friday, ok we serve at an old people place 2-3 times a week, they are special old people, so they aren't all there, we go and carry lunches to other old people who still live in their own apartments, but need a little help. So we carry lunches. I think I probably mentioned this before. And on Friday was Dan Starih, which means Day of the Old People, or Old People Day (if you remember English the right way) so they had a festival! They had music, and special food, and dessert, and all the old people were wearing chef's hats and aprons, and it was really fun. And there is one old lady that we carry lunches to, who can't hear and can't barely see or read, so we went to her house and we were trying to tell her it was Dan Starih, but she couldn't understand us, and kept saying, "yeah, I know I'm old..." and we were like, "no! it's dan starih! you need to celebrate!" it was really funny. We get along quite well with our old people. Sister Nelson is really good with them.
One other interesting thing: we went to an inactive member's house on Saturday to "help sort clothes" or so she told us on the phone the night before (or so Sister Nelson understood from the Croatian) but we ended up first, walking clear back across town to a soup kitchen where we picked up her food, then we helped with her laundry, and then we cleaned, and THEN we managed to squeeze in a spiritual thought. Other than the fact that I was annoyed that we ended up being her slaves for the morning it was a very interesting experience. The soup kitchen was a very organized, clean place, we were in no danger (don't worry, Mom) and Sisters before us used to volunteer there, so the ladies working knew who we were. It was intriguing. I don't know how else to explain it, it was kinda like living in a different world for 10 minutes. The laundry: We got to use a pulley between two buildings for hanging up the clothes to dry! I was excited to do it and if you'd believe it, it was hard to pull when there was clothes on it! It's hard work, it looks easy, but it's not. And the CLEANING. Lets just say that I couldn't breath because of the dust and I will never own more than 2 cats in my life. There was no cat poop involved, though, so that was fine. It was good to help her out and an eventful day, what with that and then conference later.
My favorite conference talk was probably Elder Oaks and I really liked Elder Holland's, too. And Elder Eyring's was good, but I didn't understand it as well as some of the others. As a matter of fact I didn't understand Elder Oaks, either, but I could tell they were good so I hope we can get together and watch it all in English soon. That would be awesome. Sister Nelson said they did that last time on a preparation day or something. So that was cool.
Today we're planning on being tourists in Zadar!
We're going around to a museum or two and taking lots of pictures, so I'll send some next week!
Love you all!
Sister Laws
The first is a picture of the room we were in for general conference, I meant to take at least one while we were all in there, but I forgot!
The next is the picture of the "conference speakers" thing we made, I don't remember what I said about it in the e-mail, we drew it for a couple of our investigators who are younger, but I think I'm the one who enjoyed it the most :) The point was to color the ties and take a few notes.
And then mine after it was all done!
I was glad to hear that Mom and Dad survived having the kids with them this week! And those pictures of Hawaii sure looked nice, Kelsey! Lucky!
Love you all tons!
Keshia
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