Greetings from Slovenia!
Wow this week has been interesting! It started out a little slow and a little difficult for me. Homesickness kind crept in a little bit again for a couple days but luckily the Lord always gives me a way to push through those rough spots! Wow did he help me out this time! So....guess what!!! Tadeja is getting baptized in August!!! We are so excited for her. She went to Switzerland to visit her boyfriend and they decided together. It was kind of interesting because Sister Oakley and I had decided to commit her to be baptized the next time Andre was in Slovenia and then she told us that is what they had already decided to do! So cool! She doesn't have an exact date yet because Andre doesn't know what week he will come but she has a more solid goal. We asked her about what her parents would think and she said basically that it doesn't matter:) yeah it was great!
Now for the second thing. So the branch had a picnic this past Saturday and Sister Oakley and I were worried that we weren't going to be able to go because we didn't have an investigator coming along (trust me we basically called everyone possible- former investigators, inactive members, our few investigators we have now, people from english class... and yes even our landlords:)) We went to meet at the church anyway because we said we would bring some banana bread (which was a huge hit by the way) and met a mom and her daughter that a member had brought a long. We also got permission to go and it is a really good thing we did! The mom's name is Ksenija and her daughter's name is Brita. Brita is 11 and we spent quite a bit of time together playing basketball and talking. She is such a sweet girl! They came to church yesterday and before sacrament meeting Brita came up and asked me " will you learn me za krst?" (basically will you teach me for baptism!!) Wow! probably the highlight of my mission so far! They both have already decided that they want to be baptized they just need to learn more first! Ksenija agreed with all the talks in sacrament meeting and was taking diligent notes in Sunday school. They are both great and a member referral to boot! We are really excited to start teaching them!! the only downside is that Ksenija can't get together with us until next Monday because she is watching a lot of kids this week. But she did say that after that we could get together every day if we can! Amazing. The Lord truly does prepare people for us to teach! It also is evidence that if we work hard the Lord will bless us even if it is not directly related to the work we have been doing:)
Olga is doing ok. We have gotten together with her once and then she didn't have time. She didn't come to church yesterday but we have a lesson with her tomorrow. we'll see how it goes!
We are also starting English class this week....well the sign up date is on Wednesday. We found a family on the street that was interested and we really hope they come. we could tell that they really loved each other and the Light of Christ was very evident in their eyes...that sounds kind of cheesy especially written in an e-mail but it is true and I don't know how to make it sound truly sincere...soooo yeah.
Anyway it has been a good week and we are really looking forward to the upcoming weeks!
Thanks for the love and support as always!
Love,
Sestra Powell
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