11/12/2012
Hey!
So I would just like to begin this email by saying, "This bites!
My spelling is completely going down hill!" And the worst part is that
it's not like I'm losing my "English". My spelling is just on the
downhill. Also in pressing important matters: I might be extending my
mission a little bit....by 3 freaking years! I just have to convince president
Rowe to let me do it.... Just kidding. I think the
mission is turning me into a "cup is half-way full" kind of
guy!
That's so great that Brother F is home again! I don't know what
his secret is. I guess that death is just afraid of that man.
Tell Julianne that I say Hi!
I haven't seen her in forever...well I guess I haven't seen any of you in
forever....
I'm still jealous that you all are going to Florida.
Maybe I'll meet you out there. There's been a change in mission policy...Every
missionary now receives a Christmas bonus in the form of a plane ticket to anywhere
in the world! Ya...totally just kidding. Too bad though.
Ya, Elder B mom seems super nice. From what I've heard about
her, I think you two would get along well. Seems like you two use a lot of the
same parental techniques. I'd like to serve with Elder B again, but the
likely hood of that is rather slim.
Speaking of
sacrament meeting, funny story:
So President P texted us on Sunday morning before church
asking if either of us had a spare talk prepared because he forgot to assign
speakers. So I told him that I could throw something together. So he said that
he would speak, and then I would. So we got to church, set up the chairs,
prepared the sacrament, and then I started throwing a talk together. I finished
it before church started, so all was fine. Well President P went a little
over in his talk and there was about 15 minutes left for me, and the closing
song and prayer. So he finished his talk, and said, Now Elder Quinn will speak
to close the meeting....And then a lady in the
branch (just as a preface, we've realized it's easier to just give her what she
wants than to battle with her...gotta pick your battles), just yelled out from
the congregation of 10 people, "Eh, drugi put!", which means
"ehhh...some other time."....So ya... I got denied by a member of the
branch...so maybe I'll just speak next week. I'm not mad or offended, because
she would do that to anybody...I just think it's funny that it happened. I can
just imagine someone doing that in America....”So now we'll have Brother Whatever
give a talk”--- "Ehh. Not right now...some other time!----....It would be
funny.
Questions
for you:
1. Are you teaching any
investigators?
We're looking. Everybody that we ever had just dropped off the face
of the planet or just gave us the "We'll
call you when we have time" excuse. I guess it's a graceful way of saying
stop calling me.
2. What are you guys eating
these days?
hmmm....sandwiches...food...ramen....we get by
3. We haven't seen any pics
of your apartment or of your new companion. Fix that, would ya?
Sorry. I've been really bad about taking pictures this transfer. I
don't think I've really taken any at all. I'll have to take some this week for
next week.
4. When do you find out about
transfers?
We should find out on Friday. We go up to Zagreb on Thursday for
interviews with President Rowe. Then we stay the night at the mission home and
have Zone Conference on Friday. Then we go home again. We're taking the train
this time just because none of us ever have before and we all want to. It
usually doesn't run in correlation to our schedules, but this time it does, so
we're gonna try it.
5. Been to any cool sites
lately?
Not really. I still love it here in Zadar, but places have kind of
turned into old news. I think I've been everywhere by now. Zadar is an old city
with old stuff, but it's still not a big city by any means.
6. Miss anything American?
Just America itself. Walmart seems like the most amazing place in
the world right now!
7. Best part of being in
Croatia?
If you asked me this question a few months back, I would have said
the food, but it's managed to get old. So let me think of a few more
minutes.....The people that are nice to us are awesome. That's definitely the
biggest thing I would have missed out on if I had never come out on a mission.
There are so many people that I've met that I'll never forget that I never knew
existed, or even ever thought about prior to coming to this country.
8. Do you and your companion
speak Croatian to each other?
Uhhhh...probably not as much as we should, but sometimes. It seems
like when we do, it's for joking purposes. It's so hard
to sacrifice the English language. I love it so much. So much just
gets lost in the translation when you aren't a native speaker.
So news from this week: I got a pillow pet! It's a milka cow! Milka is
a chocolate brand. I'm not sure if you've ever had it before. Well, I saw it at
the store and bought it. It came with 2 giant chocolate bars, a regular size
chocolate bar, and 2 packs of cookies. It was cheaper to buy the pillow pet and
the chocolate than just all of the chocolate bars by themselves. Impulse buy at
it's best. Aren't you glad to know that I haven't changed all that much?
We had a baby shower this last week for the Perović's. It was
cool. Z****, a member, threw it together. Her husband, F*****, is a
professional chef at a hotel here, and he barbequed for us. It was really good.
We had a few games, ate food, and watched a slide show that Z**** compiled and
I made. It was pretty cool. It was a nice branch activity. We had a pretty good
turn out.
I think that pretty much sums things up...well the exciting
parts anyways. I hope all of you have great weeks!
Love,
P.J.
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