Slušaj!

My dears, 

I have to make this email relatively fast,  I am so sorry! I know I didn't get to all your emails, but I had a lot of "potatoes" to reply to. THANK YOU!

THE COOLEST MOMENT OF THIS WEEK: We met with an investigator named who has been gone in Zagreb for a long time so I hadn't even met her yet. She was so sweet. Oh my goodness. She gave us some sok (Croatians thrive on sok) and we taught lesson 3- about how Christ was baptized by immersion and by proper authority and what blessings living the gospel of Jesus Christ brings us. When we were teaching about repentance, she went and got her prayer beads and started saying Oče Nas. A Catholic prayer. We explained that God wants us to pray about the things that are in our hearts and invited her to pray. She prayed and it was so powerful. When we taught more about repentance she said but wait to we have to repent constantly? And I had this feeling I needed to teach about the opportunity to take the sacrament each week. She loved that and I invited her to church. She said she has church at 9 so she couldn't come to ours. I said okay, then come next week. She said probably not. So anyways we had a great lesson. Sunday came around and I'm playing prelude music and GUESS WHO WALKS IN. She hugged me and gave me both side of cheek kisses like they do and I sat between her and another investigator! I had to speak in sacrament. The first talk was about blessings of being a member of the church, and I spoke about enduring to the end! Most of the talk was written and I read it because... Croatian is hard but I did say a lot from my heart too! Then Ivan, an awesome member in the branch who went to the Frankfurt temple this week to receive his own endowment talked about temple blessings. It was a really powerful meeting and I cried like two tears as I sat there and felt the spirit! It was amazing. She turned to me at the end of the meeting and said that is was super wonderful and she felt something different she couldn't explain. CANNOT WAIT for that next lesson. Oh my goodness. Also a member translated Teach me to Walk in the Light into the language and we sang that as the closing hymn. 

This week. P day I got in these thing large ball clear things! I don't even know how to describe it more than that.. look at the pictures. It was only 30 kuna! Worth it. The worker there even let us jump on trampolines for free because I talked to him about his beliefs and he found out the men can't have lots of wives so he felt bad for the Elders. ??  We have three cool finding activities planned for this week involving a white board and cowboy hats, and some more things. Just wait for that email.

So a baka told us this week to pray for she and her cat as we were going off to church. They had a big holiday Friday called Velika Gospa. I think it was just like praising Jesus and everyone goes to lots of the Catholic churches on the same day and burn candles. The bus system ran from the center of the city to the churches and there was a big market at the church to buy candy and crosses and such. We took the wrong bus and ended up there instead of at a lesson one time this week. I am learning this city... slowly.

pictures: we contacted down by the sea one night, we actually got lots of people who wanted to come to our English class! From last P day running and playing in those balls things. THE GRAPES OUTSIDE OUR HOUSE ARE FINALLY SWEET and we have eaten them every meal. God bless Croatia! God bless you all! The spirit is powerful, the church of Jesus Christ is true. I am happy. I am happy when I read the scriptures. I am happy when I get the chance to teach and when I pray! Love you all!

Sestra R