A Week to Remember. Staring... Jan. 18th, 2016

A Week to Remember. Staring...the Rhodes family!! 

Sunday Night Tracting

Babies, jobs, missions...quite the week for us all. So i will describe really quick why mine was so memorable. 

First of all, we have been working with a less active family and part member...they have not baptized their kids. The oldest boy is 12 and the kindest, smartest, kid out there. I. love. this. family. The problem is the dad has been saying that the children need to know more before they get baptized. (Hence, we said ok and started going over and teaching the oldest boy all the lessons.) Well this week we had a lesson (after some venezuelan-croatian palečinke aka crepes) with the mom and the oldest son and we talked about...baptism. It went really well, and he really does know everything. Then we made a baptismal date together for February! This was all really great, the only problem..the dad was in the other room. He came out at the end when we asked him to come for the prayer and he just said, "good lesson." We didnt actually know however if he heard the date...so we told them we would come back tomorrow and make a baptismal calendar together. So we did. Cue round two of palečinke. However this time during the planning the oldest boy quickly tells us in English (he is the only one in the family who speaks english) "don't say it out loud, but my dad said I can get baptized in February!" 

Yaaaaaaaaa! 

He is such a good kid and really wants to be baptized. So worry number 2? We did not want the dad to feel bad that he could not baptize his own kids and postpone it, so we prayed to know how to handle that. Well at the end of our planning he came again for the pray, sits down and really opens up. He told us who he wants to baptize his kids and everything. SUCH an answer to prayers that I cannot relay over email...but Heavenly Father is really watching over this family. AND the mom brought her two boys to church, even though she is has a health issues and isnćt supposed to go out when it is too cold... and it was really cold and it is rough for them getting to the bus station. But they came! And they will get blessed for it! 

We also had a great zone conference here in Zagreb with the Croatia zone. Still a little weird to see so many unfamiliar faces at a zone conference, I dont know all the missionaries on this side of the mission! They are all great though and we talked about baptismal calendars too, then applied it, then saw that miracle! So great, great week. 

Got three new investigators. (Aka people who gave us there number or time) one of which we will get together with this next week. That is more success in one week than I have seen in 2 months! 

So moral of the story, Heavenly Father answers prayers. He knows what we need and He knows what everyone around us needs. I am so grateful for this gospel and so grateful for my testimony. That is one of the best gifts we can be given and I pray that we all constantly seek to gain and grow our testimony of the restored gospel. It will bless our lives in every way possible. 

I love and pray for you all! 

ps. fun fact. A random inactive members mom gave us a pan of delicious Balkan goodies from her Baka. (Grandma) THEY WERE SO GOOD. Homemade Balkan food...quite life changing if I might say so. 

Random fact number two: They do not have boots for cars when you park illegally, and the towing system is differnt. We call it the pouk. (Spider) It is a big spider looking machine on a truck that literally just comes and picks up your car and takes it away. This week was the first time I actually saw it in action...so how could it not be a memorable week? 

Setting up for zone conference.