I heard from every single one of you this week! Yeah! That means that Michael wrote me! Michael, that's cool that you went to that festival thingy, my trainer, Sister Whitaker, went to it, too, and she sent some pics for it, too! That's crazy that you were both there! Were there a ton of people? You probably didn't even see her.
Oh, and my bellybutton... well, I have an outie, BUT it's inside. It doesn't stick out. So I guess it's an innie... I have absolutely no idea.
I'm glad to hear that Mom travelled safely home. I'm guessing Grandma decided to stick it out in Sioux Falls? Wasn't she planning on moving to Idaho as Mom came back from South Carolina? Maybe I can't remember right. And Amelia, do you know where you're moving to yet? No one has told me if there's been a decision, and I know it's been crazy with new baby, etc.
Thanks for sending pictures! And ones with Mom and Dad, that was so fun!
This week has been pretty pretty good. I'll go backwards. This morning we found out that Sister Stratton (she was serving in Zagreb) went home due to health problems, we thought if she went home we would end up serving in a trio in Zagreb, but they got a young adult member from Rijeka to go to Zagreb to serve a mini mission with Sister Nelson. So it doesn't really affect us. Sister Dillender and I are still in Zadar! Yay! I am really enjoying Zadar and not looking forward to leaving, so I'm glad that my stay here isn't cut short. BUT I was expecting to be Sister Stratton's companion next transfer, so that really sucks. I was looking forward to it. Next transfer two sisters are coming, so most likely I will be in a trio either here or in Zagreb. There is no telling. I'm crossing my fingers for Zadar, but the likelihood of that is kind of slim.
Also this morning we bought tickets to see Swan Lake performed by the Russian ballet! We didn't know if we would be able to go, because it isn't on pday, it's April 15th, a Friday, but we got permission from President, and THEN we didn't know if we would be able to go because the showing was sold out! But they scheduled another showing and started selling tickets for it this morning at 9am, so where were we this morning at 9 am? That's right. We were buying tickets. I am SO EXCITED. It's a TON cheaper here than it would be in America, so this is like, a once in a lifetime opportunity! I am so stoked! The Russian ballet! And the elders that we're serving with right now are really into music and performances etc. so they are going to appreciate it, too, and it will be really fun. I am so stoked!!!
So yesterday, was Sunday. Last night we watched the Sunday morning session of general conference, in the branch president's office, in Croatian. It was nice. It's really nice to be able to watch general conference, it's like having a piece of home here! On Saturday night we watched the Saturday morning session and before it we had a dinner with the members. Which was really yummy. Sister Dillender and I took mashed potatoes, which the members liked, so I guess we didn't botch it too much. My favorite talk? I don't have my notes with me. I know I liked President Monson's because before conference on Saturday Sister Dillender and me wrote down like, questions we had and what things we wanted to hear or feel while we were watching conference. And one thing I wrote down was it would be nice to hear about temples, and he delivered! But everyone did good. It's cool to see themes from speakers, like Elder Bednar seems to talk about receiving revelation a lot, and Elder Perry talks about youth and young mens and priesthood. Now, if he didn't this time, then I guess I didn't understand the Croatian as much as I thought I did. lol. And then on Saturday, I turned to Sister Dillender and said, "Who do you think the last speaker will be?" and she said, "If it's Eyring the church is true" and it was Eyring! The church is true! Woohoo!
So we've had four elders serving here in Zadar, but as of Thursday two of them left. We knew they were going to, because they were told as much when we got transfer calls, but they were expecting to leave next week. And they got a call from President on Wednesday telling them to pack up. So one was a Serbian elder and he actually went to Rijeka, and the other was our branch president, and he went to Karlovac. So we have a new branch president, another one of the elders, and we're back down to two elders and two sisters here in Zadar. It kinda worried Sister Dillender and me because we were thinking, at any minute we could get a call to tell us to pack up for Zagreb! Ah!! But like I said, we'll be staying here. At least I'm crossing my fingers. This transfer has been pretty crazy with people moving around and stuff. But it's not the end of the world so it's all ok! haha.
So our week was great! We got honked at a couple times, but people were only waving at us. I guess the elders get flipped off fairly regularly. But that doesn't happen to us! And we're looking forward to a good week, and the Russian ballet :D
Have a great week, too!
Love you tons!
Sister Laws
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