I Never Know What to Title These

 Howdy! So this week we had a ton of lessons and some went well and some went average but nothing crazy good and nothing crazy bad, pretty average week hahah. There is one person we hope will continue reading the Book of Mormon because she told us she felt great peace when she read it with us the first time. So that's a highlight. 

Next highlight, we teach English and last week our lesson was apparently too easy for the people there so we tried to make a new topic that no one knew a lot about in English. Finance! We got some good business-y words and examples and we thought it would be good because people would actually learn stuff. But the only person who joined was a 13 year old who is actually really good at English. But it was hilarious because we pretty much ended up teaching finance to this dude and it was very funny.

We saw the Childhood War museum today. It has artifacts and toys from the war along with excerpts from the owners of the toys about what sentimental value it had for them during the war. It was very sad to read some of the stories but definitely puts it all into perspective.

 

Also, we gave a blessing of healing to a friend. It was my first one and to be honest, I didn't really know what to do and I wish I was more prepared for it because I was too worried about not know what to do or if I said the words right (I did the anointing).  When my companion gave the blessing though, I could feel the spirit more prominently and I really hope we can give a blessing again so I can be ready.

Little spiritual challenge: 

Go and read "Try Try Try" by Elder Eyring in the April 2018 general conference. I have been reading other general conference talks and they have helped me so much and always apply to me. I have heard that this one is very good :). So i will read and study it this week and I'd invite you guys to give it a read yourself and apply it to your life. I know that the prophet and the apostles are not only very wise people but seers and revelator's in our day. I hope you all can benefit from them as much as I have.

 

Week Somethin

 Howdy everyone! So this week my new comp came in, he is such a cool and fun guy, literally the best! He is also incredible at the language so I can hopefully learn a ton from him which is sick. He came in around Wednesday or Thursday or something I don't remember, but we had a crazy busy week trying to figure out stuff for our new apartment. We've had to look and find a new apartment because our landlady at our current one is wak. So that has kept us really busy. The one we are probably moving into looks sooo nice, it is super European-looking and has a very cool view of a mosque just outside. This coming week is also going to be very busy. We have about 2 to 3 lessons set up for each day next week so iIam super excited for that. Also because its a chance for me to continue to practice and improve my language.

Spiritual:

We had a first lesson with someone who we have been talking to on Facebook for a long time and it went so well. She was super nice and she said when she got the Book of Mormon (we sent in the mail) she felt super happy and excited to start reading. We were all like, yup that's awesome, and we taught the restoration and it went well and she agreed to read the first chapter and meet again with us and read the second chapter together.

Pictures: 

 

 

Weekly Opet

This week was pretty fun! For Pday today, we went to a tunnel museum that was made during the siege of Sarajevo which was used to deliver supplies to the people in Sarajevo. It was very interesting and cool to see everything. There was a video that showed the war and it was weird to see the buildings and places we walk by everyday that were once blown up or on fire during the war.

Also here is more missionary work we did this week (got some emails asking for the missionary info so evo ga).

This week we had another Banja Luka trip which was low key one of the more chill ones because it snowed up there so everyone canceled on our meetings with them. So that was fun. We went from Tuesday to Wednesday evening. We then had an English life event where we taught the past tense which English past tense is wak. We also went to visit the one guy who called us a while ago about the gospel (we met with him twice and it went awesome), so we drove up to where he lives and knocked on his door and no one answered. So we walked around town and couldn't find him. But it snowed a TON so it was kinda fun. Then we drove home to deliver a gift to someone whose dad was in the hospital and since the snow was crazy it took twice as long to get there (originally 45 minutes). And once there, we show up and the address we were given was the name of the village and the words "bez broj" which means no number. And turns out the entire village didn't have addresses on the houses so we had to ask people we found outside where this girl lived. We ended up having a vague idea and left a gift with our number so hopefully she got it and if not someone else can hopefully text us.

Yall are awesome

(PS Knitting Club Update: I finished knitting my first scarf so that's sick. I am currently working on a hat)

 

 

Snowshoeing in the Bosnian Hills

 Hello hello. This week was pretty solid, we had a nice time posting a Facebook Christmas video for the Orthodox Christmas (which is Jan 7th). We also had our first service project from our Facebook page we made so that was very enjoyable and we hope to get more service opportunities. Besides that we did some good missionary stuff and planned some stuff for the future like Facebook Live events and such. 

Today we went snowshoeing which was awesome. Who knew my first time snowshoeing would be in Bosnia in the middle of a pandemic hahah! Any who, the snow was super deep, like as tall as I am and some spot a little deeper. All the snow was untouched as well because we were the only ones up there so it was absolutely beautiful. I was freezing though, I didn't pack like snow gear for my mission so I'm out there in jeans just dying but it was so worth it. 

Pictures.

1. Snow shoeing

 

 

Fallout

So this week was pretty fun! Did some cool missionary stuff, if you're interested to hear about that send me an email. For the rest of you, I think you want to hear more about our trip to a militarily secret: Tito's nuclear bunker.

So during the cold war Tito made this bunker that is literally massive just in the side of a mountain. The entrance is like a normal looking building but its actually just empty. Then you walk into this thick metal doors and into the bunker. If any of you have played Fallout, it's the same vibe. It was made to hold 350 of the most important people in Yugoslavia, and only one woman (Tito's wife). What's crazy is there are tons of other bunkers throughout the Balkans, but this one is the largest. It was kept a secret up until 2012 when they couldn't fund it so they opened it up for tours to make money for it. There was a ton to learn about how they got water, food and electricity. They said that it was able to withstand an attack 5 times bigger than Hiroshima. Also they have these two huge tanks of oil in them and at one point there was an order to blow up the entire bunker so know one would know about it but these two Bosnian dudes intercepted the order. So they were gonna blow it up by putting dynamite in the oil room place and draw a fuse all the way out and blow it up. These two Bosnian people cut the fuse so it didn't go off, thus saving the bunker. It was really interesting and very cool to see all about it. I seriously felt like I was in one of those movies based on the Cold War: military secrets, nuclear wars, bunkers, old typewriters, spies, codes, strategies. It was very cool.

Here are some pictures:

(The last one is of all the mini bunkers they made for all the families in Yugoslavia, now used by homeless people.)