Hello family!
We had another fantastic week! As my companion so wisely stated, "There are no bad weeks on a mission. Only some that are less excited than others." AMEN.
This week the brother of the girl we are teaching got baptized! It was great! That was on Saturday, the same day that they were finishing a mission wide singles adult conference at the church. The church building had so many people in it for a straight 3 days and it was SUCH beautiful sight! At the conference they did some rotation workshops and we were in charge of one of them, teaching them about facebook, the internet and what not. I even got to see some of my Slovene members! (Luckily for me they understand Croatian:) ) Then at the closing devotional I played a little rendition of 'Come thou Fount' and 'I need the every hour.' Always a crowd pleaser. We then prepared for a baptism about an hour after the conference was over! What a busy day. The baptism was wonderful!!!!!!!!! We had THREE investigators come. The Russian girl we are teaching came and stayed a long time and told everyone that asked that she was next and getting baptised in 2 weeks! She really loved bonding with some members and she loves coming to lessons. THAT is when you know someone is sincere, when they enjoy learning and asking questions about the gospel and talking with others about it! She is so awesome.
The third investigator that came is the worlds funniest 66 year old. We have been doing follow up lessons with Tomislav (the young boy that just got baptised and is receiving the aaronic priesthood this next week!) and remember how I told you about their neighbor that moved in? She was a miracle for them! Well this week we went for our lesson and then they took us to their neighbors house to introduce us to her. She is chaaaatty. She lived in America for a little bit too. We gave her a book of Mormon and listened to her stories of living in a war torn country. Then we invited her to the baptism with her neighbors and she came! She said hello to every. single. member. She loves people and she is excited for us to come over again. I have never had this many people to teach my whole mission, it is really miraculous, and I don't exactly know why it is happening now...but I will take it!
Also while we were over there (before we went to meet the neighbor) we were fed something....When people who have hardly any money, if they feed you something...you eat it. Well this adorable spanish but Croatian speaking lady puts some jam on a plate and hands it to us with a spoon. She then told us the ingredients... marmalade (jam) then mixed with coco powder and rum extract. Possibly the grossest thing I have ever tasted. Sister Allred downed hers SO fast and then just looked and me and in Croatian quietly says "you HAVE to." Haha... Nothing like a little straight cocoa powder and rum extract for taste.
Also random fact..Croatia finally got their own mormon.org page! Check me out on it. :) https://www.mormon.org/hrv/me/
Well I love you all. I wish you an amazing week. Bring on Spring!!
Love,
Just me casually sitting next to a German aka head of all european public affairs. She meets with Pres. Kearon and those people... there we are. Enjoying a šopska solata together. Yeah! She was telling us her conversion story and it was so cool!
Sister Rhodes, "Hehehehe."
Out on the deck at the mission home. A little fresh air!
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