Week 29 - sick days woo

 Hello!! So I messed up the week numbers again rip. Thank you mom and dad for telling me haha. Last week was supposed to be week 28! But welcome welcome welcome to another week in the lovely land of Slovenia. Also please read Saturday. 

Cute comp pic by the Maribor river

Monday 7/25:

Nice and relaxing day! We went shopping and just chilled all day. 

Tuesday 7/26:

Today was really good! While we were planning our day, we got a call from one of the members in Ljubljana and he said yo I am in Celje!! Let’s meet up and I will buy you breakfast! So we met up with him and got a croissant + chocolate muffin + tangerine schweppes (amazing). It was really good because we were able to just chat and talk all about music and other cool things. We then got a call from Fila and she was like yo pull up. So we did and she was like alright help me make your lunch haha so we made spaghetti and a salad but the spaghetti was so spicy and man. I was lowkey dying. It was really good and yummy but sooo spicy - well when I say sooo spicy I mean not that much bc I aam a wimp when it comes to spice. Later for when we were doing our language study, we went to go to the library and then ended up going to the cute little cafe and man that was great. We found twilight in Slovene and they had pomegranate schweppes and woo man what a vibe. Then we came back home and had a lesson with Luigi. He really is great. We asked him to pray and he prayed for us in English and man it was so sincere and sweet. One of my favorite parts of the lesson was when sestra chandler asked if he had his physical copy of the Book of Mormon with him (we just gave him his own copy this past Sunday) and he broke out in the cheesiest grin and held up his book that was hiding below the screen. He was literally so excited to show us it and it literally killed me. We talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon and read from Helaman chapter 5 (really really good chapter would 100% recommend).  A really good day overall. 

TWILIGHT IN SLOVENE

Wednesday 7/27:

Today was a good day. Sestra Chandler in I didn’t feel too hot in the morning so we just went on a nice little walk to the stairs and back. We also met with Mirko (my favorite Slovene grandpa)!!!!! He is so amazing - he told me my slovene was amazing (tears) and was feeding us all of the fruit from his backyard. He remembered when my birthday was  and was just like bro you gotta come over and we will celebrate it together. Elder barrus and I both were farmers with the plant (I forgot which plant it is rip) hanging out of our mouths. 

Embracing my inner farm girl with Elder Barrus 

We came back home and then met with Hana who was one of the counselors from the english camp at karitas. We got ice cream from our favorite truck (mango) and just chatted for a good while. Vibes. 

Ice cream :)

Later that evening Sestra Chandler and I weren't feeling too hot so she checked her temperature with a thermometer and it was 102. Something so woo

She took a covid test and it was negative so woo.

Thursday 7/28:

Sick day wooo. I was not feeling super hot today. We took covid tests and they were both negative again. 

Negative covid tests woo

We took today pretty easy. We did meet up with one person in the church and taught him how to play the piano for a bit haha. We called Lea and it was cool because she was able to meet with the missionaries in England. They are teaching her now but in the future we will join lessons so we can help translate them into Slovene. The rest of the day was studies and then english class. 

Friday 7/29:

Today I felt way better which was good. We met with one of the families from our ward and that was super good. We went on a fun little walk around Celje and they bought us ICE CREAM. They knew the way to my heart haha. Sestra Chandler and I got to read Slovene books to their 4 year old son which was fun to try and personality to all of the kids book lines.

Reading children's books 

Then we had a call with one of our members to practice teaching a lesson with her. It went good. She gave us a lot of advice about what we could do to say things in a more natural way. 

Saturday 7/30:

FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE DAY!! The son of our branch president just turned 8 years old recently so his baptism was today. It was in Maribor and was just so cool. His mom is from Austria so her entire family came and it was so cool to see the Maribor church full of people coming to support. Other members from Ljubljana and Celje came to support as well. Sestra Chandler and I were asked to sing a couple songs while he was getting changed back after the baptism. We prepared two songs and then had another song as a back up back up but didn't plan on singing so we didn't practice it.

Singing at the baptism 

Well two songs go by and he is still not back so we hurry and get ready to sing the other song which was "I Am a Child of God". And this was among the top 5 most amazing and influential moments of my mission, if not my entire life because as we were singing "I Am a Child of God"  in Slovene, people just started singing it in their own language quietly. People sung it in Croatian, German, Slovene, Spanish, and English. Definetly one of the coolest experiences ever because so many people just automatically started singing along with us in their own language. Adding in their own testimony of the fact that they are children of God. Sooooo cool. 

Baptism (notice the death choke hold on my neck hahahaha)

Sunday 7/31:

Pretty chill day. We went to church and it was lovely as always. We then went back home, did studies, planned out our week, and then had dinner with the Barrus'. Then I got to call my family :) :) :) :) :) 

Ice cream count: 2

Highlights:

-  Metod gave me a book about all of the different famous athletes to study the language more 

- we did not have covid

- I got ice cream bought for me

- Singing at the baptism (see Saturday)