Tako....družina. Zdravo še en krat.
It is quite the front seat we have to a view on the plan of Salvation right now. Wedding, funeral, family....I hope you all feel my love and most importantly feel the love from our Heavenly Father. Imagine at this time how much He feels for us. His children. We are so blessed with this knowledge and I am so blessed to get to share it with people in Slovenia.
We've started our tracking adventures. Each house we knock on and each person we talk to, it is truly crazy how much I feel love for these strangers. I genuinely love them all and have such a strong desire for them and their families. We met the sweetest woman and her mother who had come to English class approx 10 years ago. She is around 60 and her mom is around 90, blind, can barely move, and they work their farm together. She really didn't want to get baptized 10 years ago but really wants us to keep visiting her. So we naturally were looking for service opportunities. Her pregnant cow is due any day....but, I don't know if I could handle that in a skirt. Just kidding, I totally would, but based on her description of how that goes down (really it was just based on the game of charades we were playing...their Slovene was really hard to understand) I'm thinking we won't be able to help out. But we did get to feed and water her goats.
You wouldn't believe how confusing it is to choose between 5 buckets and put some water in one of them, when trying to follow the directions of a blind Slovene. . . one of the funniest parts of my week. Also she gave us fresh eggs from her farm. Woot!
This week I am especially grateful for the holy ghost. We always teach and learn that it is a thing of comfort for us...but I have really felt that for myself over the past two weeks especially. I feel a little bit like Dimitri on Anastasia. I so desperately want to force people to believe something they have just forgotten. (Princess Anastasia) And the other part of me wants to convince people that I seriously have the answer to their questions that they have been searching for for years! (The grand duchess naturally.) I just want to hand them all the 'music box' and say LOOK! CAN'T YOU REMEMBER? You lived before this life and willingly chose to follow Jesus Christ!
That is why I am grateful for the spirit. As good as my Slovene is . . . . . . . awkward silence . . . . this task would be impossible without the holy ghost testifying to people and God preparing their hearts for us. So, I will do everything I can to be the instrument that allows these beautiful people to feel the holy ghost and that love from our Heavenly Father. This week I really dug into Jacob 5. 8 times the Lord of the Vinyard says or refers to the thought that, ˝It grieveth me that I should lose this tree.' He even weeps over his vinyard to see that it is struggling. I promise you all, Heavenly Father truly loves us. If you have not felt that in a while, do something different. Put yourself in a place that you can feel the presence of the Holy Ghost in your life.
This work is starting to pick up and every day my desire to share it increases. I love you all so much and pray for you and hope that you have an amazing week. Talk to you on Sunday!
xoxox
Sestra Rhodes
p.s.
Answer to the language question: It is definitely coming! However sometimes we have a conversation with a Slovene and then when I talk about it with my companion, the story that I just heard in my head whilst that person was talking turns out to be quite opposite sometimes. So...work to be had. Words to be learned. But I love it!
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