We met another family who's
mom was baptized but inactive, so we went to her house to try to get her
active again and to our surprise we met Santa Clause who looks like he
lived in Texas instead of the north pole! He was so tan but has this long
white hair, He swims everyday, and collects cactus plants! They have
had missionaries before and love Americans cause all the missionaries
are Americans! The mom has a super strong testimony but i think she
is ashamed cause she likes to smoke so she has not got to church. They were so welcoming and made us palačinke in there small dirty house
as their shower is outside and while we were trying to teach a lesson
Santa walks over to the shower, in his swimming suit, and just rinses off
ha. We taught
them yesterday and the mom said she wants to
come back to church and will come to Aktivnost and cook for everyone and
the daughter she will come too! I was really touched when
the mother and the daughter both started talking about how when we
taught them the last time the felt so happy and full of joy! They said
that even their friends came about an after we life. They commented
on how their place felt different and they started to act different! Natasha, the daughter, was feeling is the Holy Ghost! We
asked her to be baptized and she said she WANTS TO! But she
wants to learn more first before she pics a date cause she knows baptism is
important for us to return to the Father! Then we are going to
teach her sister when we help her move and see her at English
class!
Then Stephinia a less active
we went to go see who has a very hard life. Everyone has died around
her, she lives by herself, her brother is in a coma and she has major
heart problems. She says she can't come to church cause like like a
20 min walk and its bad for her heart to really get out, but man does
she sure have a strong testimony!!! She said, "I can see u have a lot
of faith as you both just glow!" We just had such a good talk with her
and then she said she would come to church with us one Sunday!
Sunday we had the most members at church i have seen - 15 people! I was so shocked
to see that many people cause with the rain no one leaves their house,
Croats are very very weird about the weather. We meet in a small
church building with about 3 rooms its' a very nice building. Its so
humbling to see there people walk or bike in the rain 20 mins to come to
church. Our goal is to try to activate all the members cause there are
40! We need to get people excited to come to
church for growth! Speaking about getting people excited- we had a record
breaking for English class sign up as we got 27 people to sign up! It's mostly cause i stood outside waving to every car and pointed to the
church building saying sign up her free English classes! i think people
standing at corners holding English signs is new for Croatians, haha
but that's what got their attention to come! The people are great with
helping me learn the language cause its one of the hardest to learn with
all there cases but its a very slow process! well im am about to buy
everything at Sponširfest cause its like once in a life time to get
things now so ray for my wallet hahaa!
love u love family
thanks for the support!
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