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Bok bok! Hows everyone's week. Mines been pretty fun. Nothing too crazy actually, rather just a few main points.

We finally transfer planned which took like 2 or 3 days because we had so many random obligations to do. One of which was we had to wake up soo early to take some missionaries going home to the air port, we woke up at like 4 and I was just so tired the rest if the day, even after a nap and such it was crazy. I am excited for the transfer though and I think I will learn a ton. My comp Elder Peterson is a great guy and we both want to get our language abilities up so this coming week we are trying an "English fast" and only do Croatian the whole week. So far it's been good hahah, it helps keep my mind in language. We got some fun things planned for the work in general. We also got some good bonding time and had some good conversations during transfer planing which was fun.

The next thing was that we had return and report for the two Canadian missionaries Elder Atwood and Elder Thompson (my grandson) which was so fun. They did great and they are both such studs too it was awesome. They came out to the mission later than normal because Canada wasn't letting out of the country for covid, but now they have made it after a couple months. It felt weird leading it but it was still good. 

Then we had a service opportunity which was so fun! We have been working with these people called "čisteći medvjedići" which means cleaning bears which is kind of fun. We went with them to join this other service group called Rangers. We met in Sisak, about an hour out of Zagreb, and cleaned up along side a river. It was literally so fun and we met so many fun people. We got these free shirts and medals for helping which was fun. Plus there was this one lady leading it and she would give announcements and stuff through these speakers and stuff and while we were eating lunch, she started welcoming the guest volunteers (us) and started walking over. As she's walking over I just take the biggest bite of my sandwich and am chewing and she comes over and begins to ask me questions and to introduce myself and us and what not. So I'm like chewing as fast as humanly possible then had this brief interview which was super fun hahah, my mouth was still a little full of bread during it, whoops. Kind of scary because I'm still working on the Croatian. It was all so fun though, so many great people, especially thus one woman named Zora who is this sweet lady who is always just so happy and laughing so I hope we can see her again.

Church was good, we had some people come and got to know these two younger dudes named Adrijan Flis and Danijel Babić and I was talking to them about brawl stars and rocket league and now we are going to play together when I get home and I could not be more excited hahah!

Final note: Samoan missionaries finally made it home after 3 months here haha but now 5 missionaries from the Kiribati island are here, they have been serving for like 35 or 36 months now. I feel so bad, they are just trying to get vaccinated then go home. So meeting them was super cool.

Besides that we had a fun pday playing sports and such, got some nice food and a nice tour of zagreb. Fun fact: Zagrabiti - to scoop (story of the name Zagreb. Za short for iza (behind) and greb for name of water banks. This because it was behind the river) (when a someone asked a lady to scoop up some water from the bank she sajd, "zagrebi mando").

 

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Busy Week

We had such a crazy week. So basically this whole week was just planning and performing travel plans from transfers, it was so complex to do everything with who was going where, who had vaccines, who needed covid tests, getting people through borders, luggage, comps. It was a lot hahah. But we got to pick up the new missionaries coming in and two of them went to high school with my cousin Max so it was a fun connection with them haha.

But fun stuff is that the Samoan missionaries who were here left today to hopefully get home, they have been on their missions for so long because of covid and trying to get home for them has been extremely difficult with borders closed to home and such. I am gonna miss those guys. There was one, Elder Lealofi, who stayed with us a couple nights and he is such a fun chill guy so I'm gonna miss that guy lots, he taught us some fun Samoans phrases hahah. These guys got turned back at the Germany border already once and the situation was if they got covid they would have to wait 6 more months until they could even attempt to go back home so we have been keeping them in our apartment completely isolated, and because of that my comp,Elder Peterson (awesome guy) and I have been in a hotel which has been so fun.

In addition,we are helping missionaries get into Bulgaria so we got to meet them and such and do service and they helped us find some people there, good group of guys. Some of then are learning Persian so they have been getting taught Persian by some members here, but at the same time the missionaries can teach them and are helping then come to church and such so that's awesome.

We also got some missionaries trying to get home to the Kiribati island came in, there are five of them and they are all super nice! Some of them have been on their missions for like 34 months.

That's been about it this week. Love yall have a great week!

 

 

 

Late Weekly

 Hello! Yeah this week has been crazy busy. We had a normal beginning of the week then on like Thursday we get a call from the APs and they're like, "pack you bags and be ready for us to get you in hour and a half." And we were like shoot okay so we did and we got taken to the mission home (mission palace) and we get interviews with President field and he pulls me in and just goes, "you're AP" and I was like freak and then we started finishing up transfer planning and travel plans and such for like 3 days then transfers happened and we were just helping everyone get to where they needed to be. It's been SO busy but I really enjoy being busy so this is good. We were doing travel stuff and it's so complicated with borders, who's got a vaccine, covid tests, and someone got covid so we had to quarantine a bunch of people and change plans and such, it's awesome.

I should have mentioned it before but we had a way fun service thing in the hills where we cleaned out this old house and it was a ton of fun but kinda nasty because there was stuff literally to the ceiling covered in mouse poop and there were some mice running around. Yikes.

Literally that's about it so I hope yall had a great week!

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