FAMILY!
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY / INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!
Well we have had yet another quite crazy week.
last Tuesday, we had Sister milius with us still. That was cool. She's a good missionary. We had a lesson with some investigators about the Holy Ghost and we hid some chocolate in the church and said, There is chocolate for you here in this building, you can look for it. And they did for a little while. And then one of us was the Holy Ghost and gave them directions and they found it so much faster and then we talked about how the Holy Ghost gives us directions, etc. It was kinda fun. That was Sister Creager's idea. She's pretty good at coming up with object lessons. The investigators actually did expect chocolate, so when they found it they were like, oh wow! Funny.
Then Tuesday night Sister Lethco came! Sister Milius' new companion, straight from the MTC. She was tired. We didn't have a lot of time with her to get to know her, because she got in at ten at night and then we sent them off first thing the next morning on a bus to Zadar. But all the missionaries from the whole mission are coming up tomorrow for a meeting with the new mission president! So we'll see the sisters again there.
So that was Wednesday morning. Then we had district meeting on Wednesday and a lesson with a member that night. Standard day.
Thursday, me and Sister Creager got to go over to the new mission home and help make beds! That was kinda fun. We got a sneak-peak at the house. And we had heard like, that it was big. We had heard that it was maybe a little extravagent or whatever. You would not believe this house. I took pictures. First floor, ground floor, there's a very nice kitchen. A good sized dining room. A large front room. Goes out to a nice balcony. Basement, an indoor swimming pool. Walk out to the patio where there's a barbecue and picnic tables, a second kitchen with some locker-rooms, because there's some stairs down to a TENNIS COURT! They have a clay tennis court in their backyard. Then you go down some more stairs and there's a little miniature orchard with cherry and apple trees and stuff. Crazy! So you go upstairs and you have the master bedroom with bathroom that has a garden-tub, bedrooms and office, and then you go up one more floor and you reach some more bedrooms, and it has a little balcony that looks off to the best view of the whole house. It is so crazy! And there's enough beds and bedrooms that they are going to have missionaries stay the night there like, when they're coming and going. So that will be cool at the end of this transfer! Really nice house. It's kinda far away, too, that kinda sucks. Oh, and while I'm on this subject. They do have the mission office here now. It's in center so not too far away. I've been to it, it's pretty spacious and nice. Should be cool to have there.
Also on Thursday I talked to President Hill on the phone. It was his last day and he was here in Zagreb, he wanted to maybe do some interviews with us but we had a busy day and he did, too, so our schedules didn't match up. :( That would have been really nice. And I talked to Sister Hill, too. She's so great. She said, "yeah, we're flying out tomorrow. It's so sad!" and I was thinking, yeah, I bet! I can't believe how weird and crazy that would be. 3 years in one place doing the same thing and then.. you go home. weird!
Friday night we had a branch activity at a park. It was fun. There were lots of people, including Sister Nelson and her parents and sister, they've been touring Croatia this past week. They actually flew out this morning. It was great to have them here.
On Saturday we had interviews with the new president! And we were fervently cleaning our apartment because it was planned that he would come to each of us, but they called Saturday morning and asked us to come to the mission home so that we could meet his wife and kids, too. Only the two youngest are here for now, 6-year-old twin girls. They are cute. The older ones are visiting family and working etc. The next oldest (9years old I think?) is coming next week. And Sister Rowe is really nice. They are a young family, so it's quite a bit different than having President and Sister Hill. Just different, still good.
And this is exciting. President Rowe told me for my last transfer he wants me and Sister Creager to focus most of our time on inactive people. And he told me to reactive someone before I go home! I am really excited about that because I really like doing things with inactive people. Should be a really great transfer.
Also on Saturday we all went to dinner with the Nelsons. Fun, and Sister Nelson showed me all her purchases- they had been shopping a lot and the best thing she got was a bunch of movies! Some of them are sinchronised into Croatian and the other ones have subtitles. It made me want to go shopping, haha. But we'll see what I come home with. The best looking movie was a Croatian classic that Sister Nelson got, a member went with them to the store and said it's a movie that they always watch when they're young and like, basically Disney for us. I'll probably look into getting that one. ANYWAY!
Sunday after church we had a little get-together with the members and the new mission president and family. And then we went to work. and now it's today.
So TODAY we went over to the mission mansion again for a fourth of July celebration! It was short and sweet, the elders who have tennis rackets brought them and we all took turns playing, and they had a frozen t-shirt competition and we ate lots of good food. Everyone brought something and then sister Rowe made the meat, delicious. And two of the Elders found some sparklers for the girls. It wasn't dark yet so it wasn't that cool, but it was fun. And now here I am at internet! So that was my whole week! It was great!
Glad to hear that you're all doing well. amelia- good luck with everything. You've got a lot of faith! Mom, that's crazy that you met Elder Fowler! He did just get home, like, almost two weeks ago now. That's cool. he was a good missionary. Oh, and thanks for the wimbledone updates. Actually on our walk here one of the elders got a newspaper, because there's a daily newspaper here that they hand out for free and he likes checking the weather. So I looked at there was a picture of Dokovic. I can't believe he won! That's kinda cool, since he's been wanting to win for so long. And he's a Serb! Cool! Of course, I still wish that Federer had won, but I guess we can't get everything that we want.
I hope you all have another fantastic week!
Love you!
Sister Laws
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