Wow. What a fantastic week. This mission thing just keeps getting better and better. We started off Monday with the birthday celebrations and the senior sisters treated us to my favorite. . . Indian food! The place was fantastic and a little hole in the wall that you might miss if you are not an Indian food fanatic like myself.
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| Me, Davis and the Davenpratts |
Then Tuesday we had a great lesson with Baka. She cried. Not from the law of chastity lesson that we taught (which with 75 years behind her...she does not exactly have a problem with) but because we told her the new sisters were coming and that I will have to leave soon. She is so awesome. I will have to keep up my Croatian just so I can keep talking to her!
Right after the lesson we went to the church and picked up our new companions! The whole week I have been with Sister Vučenovioć from Serbia!! She is going to study opera singing and sings like a dream...speaks flawless English but still speaks a lot of Serbian-Croatian with me to let me practice and we are having SO. MUCH. FUN. The first time we went contacting together she placed a Book of Mormon and it is so powerful to have a native bearing testimony right next to you. We both have accents to the Croatian people so it gets quite the reactions when we tell them that an American and a Serbian are preaching the gospel together. It is so awesome! It is also like having a new missionary in the sense that she is so excited and full of hope. Every time we give away a card she says that she really feels like they will look at the pages or that they will call us and she is so humble and hopeful that it is making missionary work even more fun!
We taught an awesome English class together as well on her second day where we talked about family history and the history of the Book of Mormon and then gave a student a bom right in the middle of class. (She has been coming a while but never wanted one or showed interest until this week. Super cool!)
We have also entered the party of 4 life. All four sisters in one apartment. We do some splits and mix it up so it is like being in a quad together. Since we double the sisters we also double the effort and numbers and we are finding lots of investigators. So pretty much life is a party. It will be like this until the 8th of August when she goes to a ysa conference in Hungary. I canćt even describe to you all how awesome and fun and exciting it is.
So this week rocked. All the weeks rock, even when they are hard or slow. Missions rock. You all rock. (I dont usually use the word rock that much but today everything rocks. . . so . . . )
I love you all and am keeping you all in my prayers. I hope you are all finding living the gospel as rewarding and happy and forgiving and fun as it is meant to be. Have a fantastic week!
Sestra Rhodes
Some more birthday pics. Rachel Grant is the blonde and her friends who are traveling. We spent some time with them in centar of town.
She is also teaching me some fun Balkan cooking ways and Im returning her the favor by teaching her about american goodness. We cook lots!
Also....IT IS SO BLAZING HOT THIS WEEK!
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