American Corner

 So this week has been very exciting! It started off with us meeting someone named Slavko who actually grew up in Germany and is now living here in Banja Luka. He has met with missionaries before and he is such a fun a cool guy, its nice to talk to chill people every once in a while haha. He has told us he wants to be baptized but he doesn't want to give up some things with the word of wisdom. I am so stoked to keep meeting with him, I really enjoyed getting to know him.

We taught our English class we set up and that went well! We went over American geography and it was a very fun conversation with the people here. We also had our first day at this horse club we found which was way fun, we really just helped clean off this paint on some fence and that was about it, we did get free food which was great though haha. At the end of the week we also did some work at the soup kitchen here and they invited us to a ping pong tournament the next day but sadly we got SUPER busy so we couldn't go. They had all these cool little trophies too.

Lesson wise, we have been calling this super sweet woman named Katarina. We have been reading from the Book of Mormon and stuff for a while now, I have been in contact with her since my second transfer and after our lesson this week she said she believes that the Book of Mormon is the word of God! So that was way exciting, we also invited her to church and SHE CAME! This is huge for me because this is the first person in my whole mission (who I first got in contact with) that came to church, so that was super exciting and I am so excited to talk to her again about how she liked it and such.

Then the big squeeze. On Monday we had a presentation planned at this place called American corner which is kind of like a mini embassy that does a lot of presentations, workshops, and teaches about America and STEM stuff. But we had a presentation about us and who we are! It was so so fun, we talked about who we were before we came on a mission, what we want to do after the mission, and what we are doing on the mission. in addition we also talked about American culture and differences with our lives at home to living in the Balkans. There was like 15 people which was an amazing turn out. Plus one guy is interested in what we do so we hope to meet up with him, and along with him, another person wants to learn english so it was very good. In college I did a lot of presentations in the business scholars program so doing this one felt oddly fun to be presenting again, it was a weird but nice feeling.

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