Dragi obitelj i prijatelj,
Every missionary has seen so, so many the episodes of, "The District" which are training videos where they followed missionaries around interviewed them and film their lessons and stuff. When we watch those we try not to be sarcastic because we just think our circumstances are VERY different! We decided to picture document one random day, uživaj. It's realllll cheesy and partly sarcastic, but šta ćeš.
6:30 personal prayer, shoes and badge, brush teeth
6:35ish prayer before leaving
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WELL these computers we email at are the worst, I keep trying to upload more and our mail server and the computers can't handle it.
I'll send part 2 next week, if you want. Let me know if you do!
This week we went to the "museum of broken relationships" for Pday. It was super funny, look it up. Someone tell Tasha that I met a guy who knew her! He had a picture with her and everything! We were emailing at the church and there was a knock on the window and he is a member from Germany who was travelling here. We took a picture.
It rained a lot! We were just out on the streets though contacting. We talked to a lady on a bench and I was like hey we're Mormons, have you ever heard of us? She was like yes, thanks though, I am a Christian. I was like hey well we are too! And we got talking, talked about the Book of Mormon and that it is another witness of Jesus Christ along with the Bible. We're meeting with her this week.
Another lady named Ines- (pronounced like "Enos") we stopped and talked to, had this feeling to talk about plan of salvation with. She was like yeah my husband actually died 7 months ago and it's just me and my three year old daughter. For sure one of the best street contacts my whole mission. She was so bright and radiant. After we taught her the plan of salvation and that she'll see her husband again she was like "wow I would love to talk to you again" and we were like.. YOU CAN! So we are teaching her tonight. #zlatna #je
We had to go refill our tram bus cards in centar and we passed this big group of Asian tourists who just waved their arms at us and were beaming and so excited and took so so many pictures of us! If anyone sees those somewhere, let us know ha
We started giving tours of the church! People are so so much more likely to actually talk to us when we are standing out front the church because they don't feel like we're infringing on their space, we're on ours, if that makes sense. So we just ask people if they've ever been inside our church or not then invite them in and talk and show them and invite them to come see it for sacrament meeting! For "mission", as they call it. A lot of people cross themselves when they walk into the chapel or just walking past outside. We've talked to a lot of super nice people. One man thought we were Irish, another saluted us and said "PEARL HARBOR!" and started running, and we got a few fingers and other things. Nothin' new. One man we were talking to said a word and we didn't know it and so we repeated it back to him and said we didn't understand, then he said it in English... not a mission-vocab word. Woops!
We are going to start teaching Bible class in place of our English class. We are excited. Lots of good things happening in Zagreb! I know I say that about all my areas and maybe every week. But really. For Father's day our district got dinner at President's! That was so nice. He showed us how he eats cheese and peanut butter, so so good. CHEDDAR CHEESE. It was manna from heaven.
WE FOUND OTTER POPS THIS WEEK in a German store, Kaufland. They were actually called "dolphin flippers" but hey, they were good.
Maybe you're thinking wow, that's a lot of prayer! from these pictures. But really, my testimony of "constant prayer" is something I try to build every day. Someone we talked to this week was like yeah, we probably have different opinions about prayer though because I believe prayer is something you can do in the 4 walls of your own home, that you don't need to be in a church to do it! We were like yes, we agree. And truly, that is how it is. God hears our prayers on the tram, on our knees by our bed, in a moment of despair (missing the bus, having no idea where you are, next bus does not come for 2 hours) or of thankfulness (for Sister Grant's cooking!)
Volim vas puno!!!
Sestra Richardson
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