Week 81: Flooding, Zone Conference, and Good Food

Hello everyone! This week it was really cold. Also wet, with all the snow. But, we hear that it's going to start getting warmer as of this week, so that's good. On to the recap of the week!

Elder Heaton trying to stay warm!

Tuesday we did a bunch of work from the area book, as well as ECG. One of our participants came early to have us translate something for him, and turns out it was an email from some scammers trying to get him to give them his information. We told him as much repeatedly, but he didn't seem to totally believe us. We tried, so let's hope he doesn't lose all of his money.

On Wednesday we had district meeting at the church with the Deckers, and had some really good discussions. After some contacting and studies we had "sports night", but other than me and Elder Heaton plus the Deckers, only our dear atheist friend came. That's fine though. So, I played some ping pong with him and we had a good time.

Studying.

Thursday we went contacting, got Tešić for lunch, did some more contacting. Then we went to visit some members, and also heard from the landlord of the other (currently empty) apartment that there was some kind of problem, so we went over there to meet with him. Apparently one of the water-based heaters had bust a pipe and had kinda flooded the apartment, causing water damage in that apartment and the one below also. So, that's fun. That evening for ECG, one friend of the Deckers came, and somehow it got arranged for me to start teaching him Slovene.

I'm collecting a lot of books in other languages...

Friday we had zone conference! The whole theme was on the Book of Mormon, and it was really good. We had Chinese food for lunch, and it was great. And, like always, it was great getting to see everyone. When we got back to Sremska for the evening, we visited some members with the Deckers, and then went to find the APs, since they were there in town. We went with them over to a different member home where we had a wonderful dinner and a great discussion. That night the APs stayed over with us.

Seeing everyone at zone conference was a lot of fun.

Saturday we did a lot of contacting, and once again got lunch at Tesic before more contacting. Later on we had that Slovene lesson with the friend of the Deckers. He's now our friend too, I think. We did some phone calls, and at the end of the day cleaned the church with the Deckers and our dear atheist friend. During the course of cleaning things, one of the breakers went out, or something like that. 

Our church is small, but really nice.

Another picture from our church building.

Sunday morning we of course had church, but we didn't have lights in the main room. Yes, we tried flipping the switches, and no, it didn't fix anything. At least we still had our electric piano and the main heating, so we survived. It's quite a long story, but there was also some notable drama at church, and so it was quite an interesting Sunday. In any case, after the whole thing, Elder Heaton and I had our regular weekly planning, and then went over the Deckers' for dinner. Besides just us, the Deckers had also invited one of the member families over, and it was really great to have so many people there.

We've had a lot of snow lately.

Today Elder Heaton got a haircut, we got groceries, emailed, etc. The regular P-day thing. We also had to be at the church and our apartment for various repairmen to repair things.

Your homework is to read President Nelson's talk "The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?" and sincerely ponder those questions that he asks.

Well, I guess that's it for now. Here are some pictures! One of them is some of us at zone conference, and the other one is the salt shelf in the grocery store. Have a great week!

Salt at the grocery store in Serbia.

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Elder Ryan Echols
Adriatic North Mission
Svačićev Trg 3/1
HR-10000 Zagreb
Croatia