11/21/2011

This one scares me....no mother want her son to be cold.

Team,

Sounds like a pretty cool week you all had! How often is it really that you get to shake the hand of an Apostle, huh? That's not yet happened for me, but maybe someday, huh? So this week we're in Novi Sad again with Elders Freeman and Adams (small little Adamsy world). We just had to get out of Sremska because well, it's teeny. So up in the bigish city again an loving it.

MOM. PACKAGE. LOVE. Okay, that was like way legit. We had our most recent Zone Conference this last Saturday and then I got the package filled with Christmassy stuff. I didn't know about this one's existence (unless it's one of the three?) and so just kind of tore right into it an then afterwards realized that it was for Christmas. Some of the invisible things I've saved for Christmas (which they celebrate usually here on the 25th but also on the 7th of January if they're bored or have the funds to do it again. Kind of weird. The best thing ever was that voice recorder, though! I've listened through all of the messages and a bit of the music, even got into th conference talks this morning! Thank! I'm prolly going to keep that 8gb card with me until its full but I'm excited to send the two one gig ones back and forth, if I can! It's really way too much fun for me. Basically the whole busride today I was using it just talking about the flat, icy ground. Sad, okay maybe a little.

Zone Conference was good, though. We did a lot of role-playing which was pretty fun. We ordered this Bomb cake (as always it was on the home front because we're in the middle of everything....) made out of rasberries and had pizza. It was nice.

The real news is that this week we also had our kind of Stake Conference, though we call it District Conference. The Spirit was literally like thick enough to cut with a knife as all of the Serbian members (and quite a few investigators too) came to listen to our Mission President in Beograd. There was a calling shuffle and now the old District President is going to be spending all of his time translating the Doctrine and Covenants which will be a huge blessing. President Rowe asked that all of our investigators who were there listen to us as representatives of Jesus Christ. Zlata and Milica I think really had that speak to them and now we're going to meet with them on Friday. So stoked.

We had a great lesson with Mirko an Emilija too. Somehow we went from Ammon and Aaron's different accounts of how God exists into the Restoration lesson. Spun through that and then asked them to be baptized which they didn't turn down, even if they didn't accept. I know that they feel the spirit, and this was actually the first lesson that we'd ever as a companionship pointed out to them the fact that they were feeling the Spirit. It was way cool. I love 'em both to death.

We had english class sign-ups again. We had a ton more people show up this time and so I'm pretty stoked. We're also doing a lot of individual classes with people who speak better and seeing if we can't do about half and half time spent between English and the Gospel. We'll see. These Novi Sad boys had some success with that last transfer so we'll see what we can't do! It's definitely going to keep us busy.

Friday the visibility level because of the fog was about 30.56 feet. That was nice and all, but since then the frigid air has been freezing all particles of water from that fog an leaving them all over the ground as this weird hoar frost or snow thing. Last night actually we spent part of the evening with Mama, our landlady, building a fire. We have a stove-chimney thing in our kitchen. She was telling us about how hard winter is and ladada and C. Schouten kind of agreed with her and then she looked at us and was all like, no you don't understand. Winter is HARD. She kind of looked scared.... Apparently it's no at all uncommon to have a lot of the winter be around -20 celsius. Little worried.

Finally started our visa application process. Should have them in about 10 days now.

Got Cyrillic nametags. WAY LEGIT.
Старешина Адамз
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I'll take a picture.

To je to for now.
Čao

Старешина Адамз