Sister Laws: December 27, 2010

Is it only two days after Christmas? It feels like a century!
How is my family since we last talked? I hope good. I hope everyone is enjoying all their Christmas presents and new things and candy. We have SO MUCH candy - we got candy bars, each apiece, from three of the old people we deliver lunches to. And everything delicious and yummy from Mom and Dad! homemade cookies and raspberry and orange sticks and chocolate covered cherries and cinnamon bears and candy canes! I realized when I got the candy canes that I haven't had one all Christmas season! That's another thing they don't do here in Croatia, I guess. And we bought nuts, pistachios and cashews etc. for some holiday spirit - oh, AND we got chocolate from one of our English students. And from zone meeting. And probably more from somewhere else. And the presents! I appreciate the clothes I got, and Sister Dillender liked her sweater that Mom sent her, it does fit and it looks really nice, and my stuff is REALLY cute! Thank you! And I liked the scarf, did you make it Mom? Or someone else? And we did a little gift exchange with the Elders, I got this wood puzzle thing. And we got scarfs from zone meeting. AND at zone meeting we did a white elephant exchange with the sisters - we picked things from our sisters' closet (hideous things that people have left behind) and swapped them up. It was really funny. And we got foot stuff from Amelia. And... there's more. But my brain doesn't work anymore!
It was nice to talk with all of you and hear your voices! Glad that everyone's Christmas was so great.
Yesterday was good - we had church of course and that's about it that's interesting.
And today we're going to Uglijan! That's an island close by, I went to it a couple times right when I got here, Sister Dillender still hasn't been yet and there's a new Elder here, who I actually served with my first transfer, so even though we heard it's supposed to snow we're going! We did hear that, but it's actually really sunny outside. The weathermen weren't right this time.
It's weird not having anything to say! I can't think of much.
Last pday we went to a couple of China shops to buy our exchanges gifts and I had Sister Dillender and I was looking at some keychains. And I asked how much one of them was. And the man said 10 kuna. And I was just standing there thinking, should I get it? Should I get a different one? Would she like it? And he said, you can buy it for 5 kuna. And i said ok! So I bartered for the first time without even saying anything! That was funny. On wednesday we had young women's and made sugar cookies and listened to Christmas music. That was fun. They actually played the Josh Groban CD, I thought of that when Mom said she listened to it for some Christmas spirit. Oh and I also thought it was funny that Nyah wanted and got a electric helicopter, because one of the Elders got two of them! Actually one for him and one for his companion, and they brought it to the church and flied them all day long. I tried it out and it was actually pretty hard! Well, inside our small church was harder than it would be outside of course. And on Christmas we had a really good dinner - turkey breasts and mashed potatoes and green beans. Simple and yummy. We didn't eat the trix Christmas morning because we had a french toast extravaganza! But we're looking forward to eating that, probably tomorrow. This morning we had our weekly pday eggs extravaganza!
So that's all I have to say I think! Everyone have a great week! Love you tons!
Sister Laws
Oh, and Mom, I didn't get a letter from you at zone meeting :/ I already told president in my weekly letter to him that you said you wrote one so to check out if it came to the right place and it was just missed. But if you would like to resend it straight to me that would work, too! Love you!

PICTURES!!
The first one is from Wednesday, we went by the sea for lunch! It was REALLY pretty!