Dear dear family.
This week was awesome. Beyond awesome. In fact it had some pretty big
downs as well, but I literally cannot remember them because of all the
blessings we have had. So, let's get started.
We had 3 appointments with members/part-members this week. Members are
my favorite part of being over here. Seeing and hearing there
testimonies strengthens me more than they can know. One of our
members, a cute single mom was painting her apartment! That
means...seeervice!! We went over on Saturday and got to be with her,
and paint her walls, and talk to her about how she has been wanting to
share the gospel with her friends and is planning for us to meet them!
What? A referral? It's too good to be true. Also...we got to wear pants
for this little adventure. Bingo.
We have also seen miracles with finding people or just having people
listen to us, by really trying to follow the spirit and by going that
extra step. When it is more uncomfortable or maybe inconvenient, or
when we were hungry and literally one building away from being home
for the night...that is when we found people that would listen. So we
found some awesome potentials and one investigator (who we had to give
to the elders) WHO CAME TO HIS FOLLOW UP APPOINTMENT! That was the
first time that has ever happened to me thus far on the mission. He
really came. Oh it was so great. Even better, we went and gave him a
church tour with the elders to make a smooth transfer and he said he
wants to meet with them weekly. We met him on a park bench AFTER we
had walked past him and then decided to go back. Awkward? A little.
Did it pay off? Yes!
Another awesome story. Yesterday we went to do our tracting outside of
Maribor....it is such a beautiful town and lots of families. We got
let in...wait for it....3 times. And though not all of them wanted to
learn even more, one did. It was our very last house we went to, and
there was a very friendly mom who was working in her garden and
immediately let us into her 200 year old, giant, gorgeous house and
gave us cake and juice. She then called her daughter (key part of the
zgodba) who speaks english to come and talk to us. Well turns out the
mom wasn't interested, but the daughter was! How we found this out? As
the four of us sat at their table, the mom got a call. Naturally their
bunny had run away and was half way down the street, so the mom ran to
go find the bunny and we got to have a lesson with her daughter. She
goes to high school in Maribor so she said we could get together this
week! Also, when the mom came back, bunny in hand, I almost thought it
was a weird dog. It was THE biggest pet bunny I have ever seen. So
sometimes the Lord works through runaway rabbits. So we are praying
that Vita will come to her follow up appointment and we can help her!
She is so cute and would love young women's.
I literally do not have time to write down all the great things that
happened this week. But one more? English class. We spent some time
advertising for our English class and started it up again two weeks
ago. We have about 12 people coming! In our class we have 4 sometime 5
in our English class and it is sooo fun and an answer to prayers. Not
to mention two of them have started coming for our spiritual thoughts
afterwards. They are so great and help us with Slovene too.
So...moral of the story. I am 100 percent not able to do anything here
in Slovenia...without the holy ghost. We have been guided and helped
and comforted and I have also been given an awesome companion and we
are working hard. I know the Lord blesses us in a lot of different
ways, sometimes we just have to look! So the challenge for you
all....look for your blessings this week. Be grateful, SEEK to find
what the Lord has given you. You will be happier.
I love you all so much and pray for you and know this church is the
happiest path we can be on. Until next week!
Love,
Sestra Rhodes
p.s.
We also make the most random friends here. Including a man last week
(during our pday) who without any effort on our part, started talking
to us (in English) and ended up inviting us 'on a mushroom soup' and
giving us pages of his power point work on 'common sense.' This kind
of stuff is a regular occurrence people. And it is so funny and
awesome. Slovenes rock.
pps
shout out to Karlie who sent some stellar recipes this week!
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