Wazzup?
First of all, I did laugh at the Star Wars thing, but the groan
afterwards was louder than the chuckle ;).
~For those of you who are curious about what the, "Star Wars" thing is....~
It's been a great week! The weather
is cooling down, so how could it be anything other than great?
Ya...it makes sense that I'm here. President Rowe said something interesting
in my last interview. He said something to the effect of "Why did you get
called here? The Lord could have called you to Tucson, Arizona, but he didn't.
He called you to the Adriatic North Mission, half-way around the world to build
branches!" It's something that's made me think, Why am I here?
So something that I thought about for Christmas...Seriously, I can't think of anything that I
want right now. Maybe a suit eventually. Supposedly sales season is coming
up....
I would assume that you could call the phone again after the
Skype...I'm pretty sure we can Skype again. We have it on the computer here at
the church. But I don't know anything. No one has even said anything since it's
still 3 months away....an eternity in missionary land.
Questions for the week:
1. How do
you like your new companion?
He's cool. I think we'll get along just fine. I guess I don't have
too much to say. He's not a problem, and I don't think I am, so things are
good.
2. Any new
Elders come yet?
Yup...finally. The first ones since I came. Two came and are in
Slovenia, and then a missionary in Sarajevo. I
was asking a couple of weeks back if the two missionaries going to Slovenia
were actually going to make it there this time (we all know what happened last
time ;)) and I heard that President Rowe wanted to send them somewhere else,
but he was looking at the missionaries in Slovenia and realized that if he
didn't start sending missionaries in there, in a year's time, all of the elders
would be gone from the country. All of them.... So people have to start going
there. We just need so many more people all across the mission.
3. How are
you doing with the language?
It's interesting. I find myself getting better. And it's weird
because we have a greenie sister in the district, and not that she's bad at the
language, she's just new.... but, I saw how far I've come. Since I've been the
newest one for so long, I kind of felt like I was still not getting anywhere,
but now that I got a reminder of where I was, I'm feeling better about things.
I heard a guy speaking Slovene a couple of weeks back....I'm a little ashamed
to say that the language sounds super funky now. I think I'm going Croat
against my will.
4. Are you
planning on buying boots for winter/snow?
Nah...I'm not sure if we're even allowed to wear them. According to
the missionary handbook, you can't. It also doesn't really snow here in Zadar.
It did for the first time in like 20 years last year, but it should be fine. I
don't think anywhere here gets too much snow, and I was fine at BYU without
boots. I think it'll be cool.
5. Did you
know they have FB missions now? I guess that is a mission where the
missionaries write home every night! Can you believe it? We know
someone whose son is on one of these missions. It's a pilot program.
Where do we petition for this?? Kidding. I think you might
get completely burnt out on your family if you had to write us every day.
How about a cell mission? You know…where you call your family every
day. Sign us up!!!!! :)
I've heard of the Facebook missions. They've been doing it for a
while now. I think it would bite. How would you not be trunky 24/7? I love you
guys a ton, and it'll be great to see you again someday....somewhere around 16
months in the future, but I think that a mission would be so much harder with
constant semi-contact like that. It's kind of like a giant tease. It's a bit of
blessing, I would think, that I don't do that.
6. Any
investigators?
Eh, a few potentials, but nothing super rock solid. We're working on
solidifying things. We've been trying to meet with L*** and A****, but they've
been busy, but we'll get there eventually.
7. Get
mooned lately? We did, yesterday…a trucker on the side of the road
decided to climb out of his truck. It wasn't a pretty sight AT
ALL!!!!!
Nope...well...kind of. A guy with no legs was swimming off of the
coast in center (the no legs part is why we were watching him. We wanted to see
how he was planning on climbing the ladder to get out) well, and he got out of
the water and then stripped off his speedo....it's weird to see a [rear] with no
legs attached to it...just a random thought.....
Can you let Grandma know that I got her letter a couple of weeks
back, and I'm slowly, but surely working on a letter back to her? Thanks!
Oh gosh...Does Mollie want friends? Tell her not to dance in public.
Our family didn't get those genes.
So this last week has been all right. Nothing too super exciting.
Elder A and I got back to Zadar on Tuesday night and pretty much didn't
have time for anything after that. And then the next few days until now have
just been normal. Trying to hit it hard everyday. But it's kind of funny. The
only tags he has are in Serbian Cyrillic, and since the war, people around here
don't really care for Cyrillic...so he's just been going around without tags
for the last week and is tag-less until we can get some Croatian ones from the
office, which will be a couple of weeks because of shipping. He thought about
wearing them, but it's better not to get beat up, I should think.
I also found out that I’ve got a cool Bosnian souvenir coming my
way. In all of the larger Bosnian cities, they make pens out of bullets. Well I
got Elder B some candy (crunchy M&M's and Jelly Bellys) and got them to
him in Osijek, and he got me a bullet pen in Sarajevo when he was
there for zone conference. It'll be cool to have.
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna come home with lung cancer. You know it's
pretty bad when you walk into an apartment where they smoke like crazy inside
and you don't even notice it anymore. It honestly doesn't bother me too much
anymore. It's going to be sad when I step outside of a store where people are
smoking out front and get mission-trunky because of it ;).
I hope everything is going well for all of you. I'm trying to think
if I have any questions for any of you, but I'm like a guy with an eraser and
no pencils....just drawing blanks....don't judge. I came up with it literally
like 15 seconds ago... Any interesting news from the ward? It's going to be
crazy to go home and eventually be in a "ward" again. I'm gonna laugh
if I ever hear somebody use the phrase "small ward." Those two words
just can't go together after being over here.
One last thing. We accidently found a Chinese restaurant here in
Zadar, and it seems to be pretty good so far. They had good sweet and sour
squid and the wan-tan soup was all right. The only downside is that it's a
little pricy and far out, but it's good to find new places to eat at.
I'm pretty sure that's about it for this week. I love you all a
bunch and look forward to hearing back from you next week!
Love,
P.J.
P.S.: The picture of the chapel is a picture of the church here in
Zadar. The Zagreb Chapel is a whole lot bigger and actually is church produced,
so it looks like a church, instead of a bottom floor of a house.
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