Sestra Erin Rhodes: The Kranj Life! Oct. 12, 2015

Živjo Family!

Glad to hear all is well and everyone is enjoying the fall season! We are enjoying it too. :) Lots of chestnuts roasting on open fires...literally and we thought we'd start of the transfer with.... a . . . tv interview for national tv Slovenia. No big deal. This very kind woman and her camera crew came to the church and interviewed the Elders and then the sisters asking us questions like 'what does the book of mormon mean to you and do you have any favorite passages....or.... what would you tell people who are still searching for their purpose in life....do people here understand your purpose and accept you?' So she asked, we smiled and answered. Sestra Duffy even got teary. It was an amazing opportunity and I pray that some of the people who watch it will be touched and that the Lord can use it in some way to bring people to the knowledge of the gospel. There was even a boom mic. And my personal favorite part? It was all in Slovene. Very, very very far from perfect Slovene, but people are touched when we hear them trying to learn their language and am I so grateful for that opportunity! Then..they brought their camera crew to the center of the town and we did our thing what we do for a lot of time daily, we stopped people on the streets and talked to them about the gospel. The presence of a camera though was really weird. So that is one crazy thing that happened in the first week of my new area!

The second amazing thing....the branch here! I have not been to 3 hours of church in over 6 months...but they have all three hours here in Kranj and it is all run by locals! We had an awesome correlation meeting with the branch president and I found a lot of good missionary energy there at church and am very excited to work with the members here in Kranj to do missionary work. We even got to go into primary for 5 minutes to give a presentation to the two kids on missionary work. It was so much fun.

My new comp is also great. Music is one of the many things we have in common and it has been fun singing around the apartment and on the streets. (You do what you can to get people to talk to you... Still working on dragging a piano out there... :)

And to top all that off, we ran into a lady the other day who was really interested in coming to church but never did because her boyfriend did not allow it. However, we ran into her and she informed us that they are no longer together....that means, she came to church! It was a miracle and we are going to start teaching her this week along with a couple other people who seem really awesome. The amazing girl we found in Maribor right before I left also went to church again...two weeks in a row! So the work is picking up adn it will continue even more this week as we have zone conference with Elder Charles and his wife.

So all is well here and I am just praying that I can work hard enough and be humble enough to ask for things and have the faith to watch them happen. We should all think about our prayers. We had a cool meeting (prep for our interview) with the district president and he told us something awesome. He said, 'the battle is won every morning and every night in prayer.' The rest stems off of that. I know it is true and that prayer is a gift and we should use it as intended. None of this ordering pizza business and then hanging up. :)

Thanks for all your support and I love and pray for you all. Enjoy the football and crisp weather!

lep pozdrav,

Sestra Rhodes