Sausage - Dec. 28th. 2015

Hello all!! 

What an extremely fast 50 minutes that was! Wow. We have a big family. It was so great to see all of you and I am only know thinking of all the things I wanted to tell you. Haha. Lucky for us, we have emails once a week, so here is the update. 

We had a really really great Christmas. It lasted a few days it felt like. We had a zone conference from wed-thurs and then Christmas on Friday. At zone conference we learned in meetings and then we took the last group caroling in centar! It was a lot of fun and put me a little out of my comfort zone as sister allred and I were split to lead two different groups. IT went great and we talked to some really great people. After about a half hour of that we got some time to tour centar and enjoy the christmas markets. I bought a Christmas tree ornament. A classic zagreb item. We went around in a group this time so it was great buy some zagreb treats and be able to share them so you could try more than one thing! Pres and Sister Grant's daughter is here as well and she is so awesome. She came to midnight mass with us and toured around and it was some very well spent free time!!

                                                            

             

Christmas eve we dropped off some surprise gifts at some members (they don't know...we dressed in black and ran our guts away) then went into centr to find some dinner and....NOTHING was open. Except...of coarse..the one american restaraunt. Rocket Burger. So that was our Christmas Eve dinner with the district and then we hit up midnight mass! It always confirms my testimony of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. But is still a cool and unique experience! They have had a really cool live nativity going on all week right in the middle of zagreb. They are definitely proud of their religion which is really cool to me. 

Christmas day consisted of us waking up early to make district breakfast at the church and host a mass (with about 6 people) in our church building. A little interfaith building never hurts! The bonus for working on Christmas day...this awesome pictures. Very worth it. 

             

Danijel Asler, Allred, Serbian Orthodox priest, me, Elder Harris

We then had our lovely chat and made our way to the mission home for an amazing dinner (featuring pretzel jello salad from sister Rhodes), a warm Christmas tree, Meet the Mormons movie, and a nice nap. (I guess only half of Meet the Mormons.) 

So all in all, it was a very nice, spirit filled, food filled Christmas and it is great to be back to work. Back to the grind. Back to serving not being served. Back to finding people prepared for the gospel!!! 

Thanks for all of your support and prayers! I am praying for all of you over here as well and hope you have a great week! Don't let the Christmas spirit go! Keep Christ centered all year round. 

Love,

Sestra Rhodes

P.S. Also, the reason it was title sausage was because between 6 of us we split 4 sausages that were SOOO GOOOD. Two words. Cheese filled. It was a life changer for sure.

Merry Christmas to me?  Maybe....fun coat!