Sestra Allred and I are teaching the most solid investigator of my whole mission, his name is Momcilo and he lives somewhere in the Germany, Berlin mission. We skype teach him. He speaks Serbian, it is awesome to teach him. He actually said "I want to be baptized" when we invited him, WHAT. It is scheduled for Nov. 21, but there is some political things that could maybe hold that up. But we will get to watch the bap over skype, that will be sweet. He asked us about the reformers who came before Joseph smith and why they were important, he talked about the authority of God and asked so many good questions. The Lord may be moving His people, but He is preparing a way.. a crazy way.. for scattered Israel to hear the Gospel!
We the 30th anniversary broadcast of the dedication of former Yugoslavia. We filmed it and edited it and put the subtitles in three different languages all within 10 hours. There have been some long nights and some random assignments for us lately. It may not sound like it but I am going to cry when I leave the mission. We had the last MPAC (mission public affairs council) meeting last night and Pres Grant was saying his two cents about me leaving the council.. cause I am leaving, and our skype cut out. But I had a good 10 second cry this morning in the shower about how much I love where I am right now and all that is happening. AH
We biked last pday and got protein shakes, protein has hit the balkans ladies and gentleman! Today we cleaned out our apartment and slept, we are so creative. We ate so so so much candy for Halloween though, which we bought ourselves from Kaufland, livin the dream. Some sisters do "six months to sexy" where they diet the last six months of their mission, I am just trying to eat everything that is not in American, all the food that is dear to me! Ha!
Satan was rampant in these parts this week! He tried to get us down but we wouldnt let him! We contacted people and they'd say nah, then people we didn't even contact would stop us and yell at us! Then, we tried to get these cards printed for our presentations and went to get the bid at a graphic design place, they said theyd be happy to work with us and email the bid to us. Then we got the email, they said because of their (religion) preferences they would not print our cards! So we had to scramble to find another place! Then we texted this member we had visited once before and she said, "NO! you cannot come over and share a message!" And many other, very, very weird and uncomfortable things. Contacting got all shades of weird this week. We had a Halloween party in the branch and we got told off by a member, everyone really loves us in this branch.
We talked and walked with this Jewish guy for an hour. He was nice, we "scheduled a lesson" with him that we would walk back and talk to him later. We talked about the plan of salvation. How blessed we are to have such a specific knowledge!
This weekend was great though- on Saturday morning we had a baptism at the mission office in the old font that they closed off because they have one at the chapel, so this was the first baptism here for 7 years! Here meaning at the mission office. It was of a guy who literally just walked into the church three weeks ago who used to be a Catholic priest. He is baptism number 26 for our mission this year! Each soul is precious!
Then we watched the broadcast from Pres Grant about the 30 anniversary... the subtitles in the language were off but we did not have time to fix them but it was still good. Then did a service project, assembled hygiene kits for the refugees. Lots of them.
Then Sat we went to Beograd, had dinner at the Raiceics! Then slept in the BEo apartment, went to church there, did our presentation. Tasa told me he knew I would be there, he prayed me there. He got baptized 40 years ago in Austria. He is the best. We did our presentations despite the projector not working, drove to Sremska and did it there, drove home.
That's all I got for you this week. The Lord is aware of each and every one of us!
Love you!
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