Well...Monday night we had an appointment with E who became an investigator last week. She answered the door holding her Book of Mormon which we were excited about. Until she tried to give it back to us telling us that she didnt have time and she just wasnt interested. It was kind of disappointing because we finally got an investigator and then she didnt want to meet with us again. But, we left her building and went tracting to find more investigators!
Tuesday...We had a full day planned but everything managed to fall through. We started out the morning with coorelation meeting which went fine. After we had set up to go meet with two potentials and one member. Well, none of them ended up being able to meet with us. We also had a waitress that we talked to the week before at a restaurant who had taken a Book of Mormon so we went back there for lunch hoping to be able to talk to her and she ended up not working. So, all of of our plans fell through and it was another day of checking up on formers and tracting. Our favorite! We did have English class which was a good class and then the Sarajevo sisters got to apartment that night so that we could go to Zagreb together the next day.
Wednesday...President has started a new thing called return and report. It is for the new missionaries and their trainers and it is halfway through the training so that we can go in and he can kind of get a feel for how all of the missionaries are doing. It was good but it was kind of a short meeting and a long drive for it. He had the new missionaries do role plays so that he could see how things were coming language wise, he did some training, and had all the new missionaries give a report of their first couple of weeks and then he did interviews with all of the new missionaries and trainers. The meeting was actually really good and I really think it was a good idea. It is just difficult because of transportation and travel and such. That night we were with the Zagreb sisters and by the time we ended up finishing the meeting and getting out of the mission home we had time to eat really quick and go back to their apartment.
Thursday was a day in Zagreb. There actually ended up being 6 sisters in Zagreb for a couple of days which was kind of interesting so we were on splits and all kinds of things. Saturday morning I was with Sister Orgill and my companion. We started off the morning with a lesson with a member. We talked to him about the Restoration and challenged him to find someone that he could share it with. It was good but he was really talkative and kept going off on challenges. I then spent a few hours in the office and doing some other random things and then I was back with Sister Orgill and Sister Kawai and we drove out to visit another member named S. I had met her before and she is great. She is preparing to go to the temple. She has been struggling to read the Book of Mormon daily so we read a chapter and discussed it with her and talked to her about how important it is to read every day to help her prepare for the temple. The rest of the night was spent out and about contacting. A man actually stopped us and he is living in Zagreb and is from the US. He had heard of our church and had a lot of questions about it so we were able to answer his questions and had a really good discussion with him.
Friday morning we started off with a lesson with a member named J. She is another one that I had met with before in Zagreb. She has a son who is 10 who wants to be baptized but they are struggling to get permission from her husband. So the missionaries meet with him and he loves it. He wasnt feeling very good but the second we walked in the door he grabbed his scriptures and came and sat down to meet with us. He is really good at reading the Book of Mormon. We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him and did an object lesson which he loved!
I then headed off with Sister Orgill and we went to the mission office for leadership council. Sister Orgill is the Sister Trainer Leader for Croatia and since her companion is a brand new missionary President asked me to come to leadership meeting with her. So we had that meeting. It was really good. We talked about goals and just had a few other discussions. It was really good but it was a long meeting. It went until about 9:30 at night. So when it was finished we all basically got ready for bed.
Saturday morning we woke up and got ready and then went and met my companion and then we headed back to Tuzla. The travel took a little longer than we had planned and we got back just in time for district meeting. They waited to do district meeting today since we were gone for the rest of the week. We are actually getting a new senior couple here in Tuzla. There has been kind of a senior couple transfer so the Shepherds are heading to Karlovac and the Devers who just got here from the MTC will be in Tuzla. So both senior couples were at district meeting. We had a good district meeting and discussed discerning by the Spirit to know what to teach people. We had to go over to the senior couple apartment to do something on the computer and it was the only time we could do that so we went there. By this time it was about 7 pm and we hadnt had a chance to go home yet from our travels and had barely eaten anything all day and Sister Shepherd was so nice and fed us while we were there. The Shepherds are really nice but I think this transfer and a new senior couple will be good for Tuzla. Anyways..so Saturday was kind of a crazy day but we survived it and we were glad to make it back to Tuzla.
Sunday...well, because we had 2 senior couples at church we broke double digits. We had 10. S also came to church and it was the first time she has come in over a month so we were really excited about that! We still cant get her to set up to meet with us but at least she came to church! Sister Shepherd taught Sunday school and she did it all in Bosnian. I was really impressed because most of the senior couples dont do so great and dont really try. It wasnt perfect but atleast she did it!
After church we had to do weekly planning since we hadnt been able to the rest of the week and then we had cleaning checks. Then we went out for the rest of the night to find potential investigators. We talked to one woman at the door who told us that we could come back another time and that she would try to come to church. We talked to another woman on the street who literally told us that she had heard about our church and if she knew how to become a member she would. We told her we are here to help people learn about our church so that they can find out for themselves if it is true. She seemed sincerely interested in learning more. So hopefully both of those will go well over the next week or so as we try to actually meet with them now!
Well, it was kind of a different, crazy week but it was still good. We are hoping that this will be the week that we can get in contact again with all of these people that we are meeting and see things start to grow. We are meeting great people and if nothing else we are helping them to have spiritual experiences that they will remember in the future.
I love you all and hope that you have a great week! I love being a missionary and I love the Gospel!
Volim vas!
Sestra Clark
Shoutouts...
emails...Tys, Lex, Dad, Grandpa, Mom, Carrie
and got a letter from home...it was just the ward newsletter but I still got it
Sretan Rodendan...Chris!
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