We had a very busy week as usual; but now busy with the usual. I'll start with the people we are teaching. Our dancer friend is doing great. We meet with her twice a week and she usually has training on Sundays and has to leave after sacrament meeting but this week she stayed for Sunday school! We taught the Sabbath day and (drum roll) law of chastity. Both went over really well actually and her mom has been staying for the lessons, which is a blessing, considering they both need to be taught. She is preparing to go to Blackpool, the international ballroom competition in england and we will not see her for two weeks. She leaves at the end of this week and gets baptized shortly after her return. Two weeks is a lot of time for Satan to work while she is away so we are trying our best to help her be prepared and continue to prepare for baptism without us.
We got to teach our baka investigator. Though 66 she is very spry and filled with energy. She also loves to talk. Welcome to almost every investigator I have ever taught. She has felt the spirit multiple times and feels like she belongs with us. We committed her to a soft date for baptism and she said that that is her biggest desire. Never bad words to hear when you are a missionary. We will be meeting with her this week and are practicing a lot so we can teach clearly and simply and answer all her questions.
This week we also had our David Archuleta events missionwide. David, his fantastic accompanist Kendra, and his traveling manager Carrie all came. In Slovenia he had a concert with Paul Cardall in the Ljubljana opera house as a fundraiser for the 25th anniversary of a heart foundation in Slovenia. Seeing we have worked a lot on helping these events come together on the media we were invited and I got to see some of my Slovenian member friends and sit next to my former comp Sis. Duffy!
David hit it home with Imagine and some of his other popular ones INCLUDING 'The Prayer' with a members daughter who one Slovenia idol. They NAILED IT.
He had a missionary fireside in Slovenia with Paul Cardall as well, then he went to Serbia (we did not) and then he came to Zagreb. Sunday night we had the church the fullest I have ever seen it. Members brought friends, nonmembers brought friends, AND two Hungarian people who saw it on social media came and loved it! They are now going to take the missionary discussions in Hungary!! Yeah! Then Monday morning we had a missionary breakfast with him and his crew and they each shared some wonderful missionary thoughts and then he treated us with some really great primary songs and a repeat (per my request) of 'He lives in you' from the lion king. Very, very enjoyable. What was not so enjoyable, when President Grant made me and sister Davis roleplay the gospel of Jesus Christ lesson to David and his manager (who is baptist) in front of all the other missionaries . . . in English.
David also shared some nice thoughts (from Brad Wilcox actually) about Christ's first miracle of changing water to wine. While some may think 'why was Christ drinking wine' or 'who's wedding was it?' and a plethora of other thoughts, Christ was announcing himself to the world with a divine message "I can change things."
Christ can change things. I am striving to change every day and it is my sincerest desire that I can help someone else recognize that that change is possible through Jesus Christ. Let us not get comfortable where we are, but let us constantly strive to use the atonement of Jesus Christ to change!
Love you all. Have a great week.
Sestra Rhodes
Glad I got to show Sis Davis a piece of Slovenia!
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