11/14/2011

Okay,so I am a week behind...sorry gang. Here is the letter from last week.

Team!

I don't know why I throw out all these weird interjections. I just feel like I need to address somebody when I type, but really I don't know who all reads these besides mom.... Ah well, here we are again. E-mail time.

This week was super busy. Last Thursday we planned everything out together for our Transfer, Month, and week really well. I hate planning, but love to have a plan so it's kind of a Catch 22 for me. Anyways, we ended up teaching a bunch of times to a bunch of different people that we've been finding over the past couple of weeks and it just all worked out in the end. We've now got 6 investigators and a bunch of other people who we're very hopeful to begin teaching very soon. The thing is is that they'd better never take me out of SM because I love the people here far too much for any of that to be happening. There are too many people that I'm so ready to begin teaching and who are so ready for the gospel that I can't even begin to describe it. So.... I won't. Just have it at that.

Last P-day recap, though. After Internet we went and walked around the city and took more pictures. We also went to what they call the Palace here. It's actually the Palace Ruins of the City of Sirmijum (once the 3rd largest city in the Roman Empire as I'm often reminded). It was way cool. For like 150 dinar we got a cool booklet that we can't read yet, a fun ticket, got to see the on-display art there and walk around and climb on ancient Roman Ruins. Pretty cool, huh? We also drank tea with Mama, taught a lady named Umija and her sister (name? I can never remember....) and had FHE with the Vucenovici. It was all pretty great.

We spent a lot of our week postering and flyering for our English class sign-up on this Thursday. The Novi Sad elders a couple of weeks ago related to us the huge success that they've been having due to individual English courses held with a bunch of people these last two months. It's going to be a whirlwind adventure, tell you what. We printed up some really big posters and put them all over the place and this time around (I think because they were bigger and more professional-looking (thank you C. Defreitas)) they didn't get torn down by the students! A lot of people actually have been saying that they have heard about the class and so that gives me a lot of hope! We'll see! We'll see. :)

We actually had a party to end our last English class which was a lot of fun. Everybody brought food and we had music and these great games and talking in English and it was a lot of fun. Love parties, you know?

We had District Meeting on Saturday. We're now the the Novi Sad - Sremska Mitrovica district. We meet every week and that is a nice boost now. It's myself, Elder Schouten, Freeman, and Adams. Yupp. Gonna be a problem. The two new guys here are Elder Adams and Elder Gibson (who committed somebody to being baptized in Beograd on his first EVER lesson - such spoiling of the children... jk) I gave the language tip about numbers and how to use them in different ways. It's fun! Sounds like it will always be Tuesdays from now on. We also have another Zone Conference this Saturday which is going to last like 8 hours. Should be pretty good information. :) Big things a'happening.

RUMA. Ruma is a town not far from Sremska where the missionaries used to live because of the high amounts of members who used to live in that town. There are now many many inactive families there and a ton of potential investigator papers. In fact, hidden in the Dungeon beneath the Beograd Church a few months ago we discovered the Ruma Files. Anyways, Thursday we spent the day there trying to find people. It went well and we had some good conversations, but we packed way too light. Winter fell on us as we waited for the bus in the evening. Dang cold. Dang cold. Anyways, not much accomplished, but we now solved the mystery about Ruma - now we can focus 100% on SM. Not to mention the MASSIVE Palacinke we had at this pizzeria there. Good day overall.

Church was great yesterday. We taught about the Restoration and I think it went really well. Next week we're having District Conference which is roughly similar to stake conference but for all the members in Serbia. Should be way legit. Pretty stoked about it. Yesterday we also walked to Lacarak (a city not too far from Sremska). We crossed over some railroad tracks and left some 20 dinar coins on them. When we came back it was pretty late and there was another train coming so we only had time to look for a little bit. Found one of them though which was pretty cool. Smashed up treasures. Didn't find the person in Lacarak, but made a friend so it was good.

The harvest moon rises almost every night as our breath visibly escapes us. We teach, we learn, we act and hopefully remember. It's not much, but I sure hope that it means something to somebody. My life is summable into a few words - palacinke, investigators, walking, excitement, study, friends, hopes, fears, hope of rain, fear of failure really. This and foreign arabic money. Love.

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