Zone Conferences!

 Hello! These past few weeks have literally been so fun! We have been doing zone conferences. So we have had the chance to travel to each of the zones and do presentations. It's so good to see all the missionaries. Like half of them I've never met and met for the first time haha, others I haven't seen for like a whole year so it was so good to see everyone again. 

Recently we have been super busy on pdays and so we kind of lost some pdays but it for sure makes up for it that we get to go to each country and do an activity for zone conference! 

Some of the stuff we have been busy with is helping the new Kiribati  missionaries getting settled in here. Like the Samoans (who just got home actually), they are trying to get home so Croatia is like a pit stop. It's been so fun because they gave us the skirt things (lava lava I think is what they are called) and are teaching us a dance. We are planning on doing a cultural night with them have them make traditional food and teach everyone dances and stuff so it should be a ton of fun! We have also been helping some Russian missionaries come in who will be here for two weeks or so I think. There's like 25 of them.

Besides those we have had some way fun times doing service and stuff! We been helping a member build his house which has been way fun, he sadly broke his back so he just walks and helps as much as he can and literally will randomly just say, "my back is broken. My špinal. I broke my back", love the guy, his name is Krešomir. We also have been cleaning with čisteći medvjedići which has been so fun. We are making good friends with people there. One of which is named Zora who is so nice and full of energy and is so funny and great. 

Zone conferences

Serbia:

* The first one and it was great because my whole mtc group was there except for one person so it was so good to be with everyone, especially the ones I haven't seen since the mtc hahah. For our activity we went to this Castle which is on this beautiful side of a hill and river and on the other side is Romania, pretty crazy. 

Slovenia:

* Super beautiful there, as with Serbia, this was the first time I was there. Slovenian is really interesting, The language sounds sooo hard hahah but talking with people in Croatian we can understand each other. Its was way cool to finally meet a lot of the missionaries there in Slovenia, we dont see them a whole lot. They are so awesome. For our activity we went to this place and took a gondola up to Velika Planina which means big mountain. It was beautiful though, it was up in the Alps and they have this little village hut things that people could rent and spend a couple nights in. We were up there for the day and it was like I was on top of the world. I can now say I have played chess and spikeball on the top of the world. Afterwords we had an exchange which was way fun . We taught English and such it was cool. The situation with covid there is interesting, you have to have proof of vaccination or that you have recovered from covid within the past 6 months or else you cannot enter any buildings.

Croatia

* Croatia was way fun! See all the people here was great as always. For our activity we went to Sljeme, which is this area in the mountains and then walked around, very beautiful especially in the fall. Later in the evening we went to Mirogoj on sve Sveti which is like the day of the dead. We went to the one last year so it was crazy because It was exactly a year later that I was there. It's a graveyard for many of the people who died in the war and they also have Krešomir čosićs grave there and there were candles everywhere and it was beautiful.

Bosnia

* It felt so good to be back here. I love Bosnia so much. It's sad there is some rumors of civil unrest between Republica of Serbia and the Federation so it's a bit sketchy, the missionaries in Banja Luka are now in Sarajevo because of it. And with that in Sarajevo there are floods going on which is sad, it's wiped out some houses in Iliđa which is sad. So keel Bosnia in your prayers. In terms of happy fun stuff we got to check out this cool castle and stuff called vranduk were they had archery inside which we got to do which was so fun. Then we spent time in Sarajevo and Baščaršija which has been amazing. I love this place. The best food by far, it's all local food. Čevapi, punjenje paprike, sarma. Literally all amazing. I got to visit one of my best friends here who is this nice Lady who sells pape (little knitted socks) in Baščaršija. We got to know each other last year when I was here and we took pictures then I came back this year and retook them and it was so nice to see her. She is so nice and was so excited to see me haha, it made me so happy she remembered my name. Her name is Hatidža.

If you remember, we had a friend at American Corner who's name is Miodrag and he is such a cool guy. He's young and just has his whole life figured out and got selected to be a representative of Bosnia for young leaders in Europe and he's going to a conference in Rome for it. But he's going to stop in Zagreb so I'll be able to see him there which will be so sick. Plus he has been having questions about after life and the Godhead so I am soooo excited to talk to him about those. Plus he's gonna check out the temple in Rome. 

Sorry it's so long. Pictures!