Hello dear family!
I can not BELIEVE how fast this month is going....we only have one week of August and the month of September will be just as busy if not busier. So right into the update. We had a successful zone conference here in Maribor and a special treat was that one of the members here in Maribor wants to go on a mission, so we invited her and she got to come feel the spirit there around all the missionaries and the President and it was a wonderful day. We saw some cool miracles as we headed back out into the exact same two cities that we tracted a short two months ago. We met some really nice people, got fed homemade pastries.. and the best part is that there are two families that said we could come back later to explain more of what we are doing! One foot in:) I am thinking of just taking the pastries and juice that I get and taking it to the next house as an offering. If they don't want the Book of Mormon, maybe something a little less dependent on their eternal salvation will soften some hearts. :) I'll let you know how that goes.
Another cool thing of the week...I got to talk to Sister Greenwood on the phone for a while! She was visiting with her husband the mission home in Croatia...turns out their mission responsibilities have taken them all over the place! It was great to hear a familiar voice and see how we are all doing the Lord's work in different ways from our lives now, to our families back home. It is the most important thing we can be doing...the Lord's work. Whether that is at home or abroad or within yourself.
We also got to have a member lesson last night (very last minute) with the branch mission leader and his wife! Aka...the coolest couple I have ever met. So devoted and awesome. I love them! The coolest part (why the lesson was last minute) was that right when I got to Slovenia, we had contact with a young man and kept trying to set up lessons with him. He even said he was going to bring his cousin....but it always fell through. Well, four months later, we are getting on a bus coming home from trackting and we start talking to a kid next to us with headphones in. We ask him a question about Slovene, then explain why we are learning Slovene, then after a short amount of time....who is he? THE COUSIN! So right before he had to get off the bus he gives us his number and says that they will contact us for reals this time....AND THEY DID! They are future missionaries and leaders of the church here in Slovenia, i feel it! So cool.
So...miracles are happening and we are trying to be worthy enough and work hard enough in order to be able to find and TEACH the people that are prepared for this gospel. The work will go on no matter what I do...so might as well stay on board! :) I love and think of you all often! Send pictures of your lives, that is my favorite! (Shout out to the selfies I have received from many fo you . . . you know who you are . . . including Dad adn his tomatoes. That's all I'm askin:) )
Have an amazing week family!
xoxoxo
Sestra rhodes
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