Hallo everybody!
This week was really great because it finally stopped raining!!!! Call me mortal, but contacting in the rain is not quite as fun as contacting in the beautiful Croatian sun. Well this week the sun reeeeally came out and gave me flashbacks to last summer tracting outside of Maribor in the blazing heat. Wonderful times they were and wonderful times ahead!
We have officially taught Anja all the commandments and now she is headed off to Blackpool England to the worldwide ballroom competition! Maybe Richard Gear and J lo will make an appearance... We asked her to read something out of the book of Mormon every day and something out of the 'for the strength of youth' every day on her trip. That little book is a wonderful wonderful tool. She will be getting baptized in the beginning of June and I am praying that she gets a deeper understanding of the truthfulness of the gospel throughout the next couple of weeks.
This week we also had the opportunity to help out at the annual Kresimir Cosic basketball tournament for the mission. The members each got a team from their country (Slovenia won) and came to Zagreb to play in this tournament to remember Kresimir. Hugh Nibley taught Kresimir when he went to play basketball at BYU and instead of continuing professionally like offered, Kresimir came back to his country to bring the gospel here. His story is really amazing it is was really neat to see all the members come together, playing basketball in the same gym because of this one man. Though it was a game of basketball, there was a huge gratitude for the gospel among all these members . . . and free t shirts. Win win. Here is me in mine helping keep score. My very first time... you can imagine it went very well. ;)
Cool story of the week. We pass out a lot of cards and pamphlets (and this week we hit our goal of Book of Mormons passed out!), all of which have our number on it. Well Saturday afternoon we got a call from a random number and she said that she found this pamphlet at a friends house and took it home and that it kept tugging at her to go to that church. Well she forgot about it but on Saturday she was cleaning up and found it again and that something kept tugging her to go there. So she called the number to get better directions. I talked to her and she sounded really great and I am hoping that she follows that prompting and comes next Sunday! (If not, we have her number and will prompt her further :) ) It was just really comforting to know that it does good to hand out things like we do. Maybe that person won't directly benefit from it, but a friend, a family member, who knows. Well, actually one person knows. But we don't so we have to keep working and handing out things and talking to people! It also gave me comfort to remember that Heavenly Father is working on people. The holy ghost still prompts them to pick up a phone, to read that pamphlet, and I know that by these simple things, GREAT AND WONDERFUL things will happen!
Also my 60 year old English class student invited me again to come stay with her this summer in her 'vikenica' or her little get away house on the coast of Croatia. So if you don't see me in August...you will know where to find me. :)
I love you all a lot and hope you have a wonderful week! I am rooting for you all and appreciating your prayers in my behalf as well.
Lijepi pozz
Sestra Rhodes
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