Week 40 - chestnuts roasting on an open fire

 Buckle up guys because this week was SO FUN!!!! October 10-16.

- Monday was super fun. Sestra Hancock and I just went exploring a whole bunch. We found this really cool thrift store that is one of the weighted ones where like 1 kilo = like 22 euros or something like that. It was also super super cool just in how the store was set up. Sestra Hancock got a fire vintage tracksuit and I got three sick sweaters. 10/10 Also at the store they had a whole giant rock of REAL fur coats. So ofc we did a photoshoot.

The iconic furcoats 

- Tuesday and Wednesday we had exchanges and wow that was so fun. I went with Sestra Williams (my first companion here in Slovenia so THROWBACK) and it was such a blast. She was sick and so we went back to their apartment and she said she would take a nap for about an hour or so to regain her energy. Well uh 7 hours went by hahaha but it was SO FUN because I got to just study the scriptures, catch up on things I've been wanting to do forever, deep clean my messages, deep clean all of my notes, study the language, and so much more. It was such a good catch up day that I didn't even know I needed. When Sestra Williams woke up we went out to McDonalds for dinner where I proceeded to LOSE MY WALLET bruh. My wallet had everything on it (my bus card, my visa, my credit card, my personal card, my train card, etc etc etc) but I wasn't to worried because the mall literally closed right after we were in there. 

WC Selfie

- we went back the next day and lo and behold THERE SHE WAS so we are good

- Wednesday was also Sestra Hancock's bdayyyy wooooooo 

- we all went out to lunch at a yummy Indian restaurant to celebrate and then had district council and then taught Leon a lesson and it went really good and then we went to a meeting at this charity organization to start getting more service opportunities BUT THE BEST PART EVER WAS.... CHESTNUT ROASTING AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Birthday celebration with indian food

- Sestra Williams has a ccol connection back home with this one family here in slovenia and she we went to go roast chestnuts together. Well first we had to go get them! So we just hopped on over into the forest and started picking them up and putting them in a cute little baskets. The outside of the chestnuts are SHARP. I got pricked a bit but it's all for the mems. Anyways we went back to her house and started roasting them and eating them. And man I really like chestnuts hahahaha they also brought out some of the yummiest apples ever + yummy yummy bread + an apple cider type thing that was WOW and then proceeded to tell us all about slovene history. We just chatted and had a wonderful time while eating (aka my FAVORITE thing to do in the WORLD). After out visit we made a quick pitstop at McDonald's for a bday ice cream trip

Chestnut picking

Chestnut roasting and eating with the gang

- the next day we went to BLED!!! Bled is one of the most famous things Slovenia is known for. Go look it up. Well we went to meet up with this sweet lady and her daughter who live in Bled. They were super super nice. I talked to the mom while Sestra Hancock helped her daughter with her english homework haha. English is hard man! Her homework was so hard and I am literally a native english speaker. That was so fun. When we went to get on the bus after out visit, the bus driver was literally like bro I don't drive to Ljubljana. So uh whelp I guess we are stranded for another 30 minutes! Might as well walk around and see the sights. Now from where we were before, we couldn't see the lake, the church, castle, or anything of it but after a 4 or 5 minute walk BOOM it was all right there. SO FREAKING PRETTY like are you kidding me!?!?!?!?!? 

Bleeeedddddddd <3

We actually ended up missing the second bus bc I didn't look at the right time but it was fine because we were walking around and out of nowhere hear "Hi Sisters!" Um WHAT?!?!?!?! We never ever ever ever hear that. We turn around and there is a guy, his wife, his mom, and their adorable babt :,) just walking by. Apparently the guy served his mission in Slovenia 10 or more years ago and was finally coming back. So that was really cool. We did end up making the last bus haha 

Soup :)

- Saturday was SUCH AN ADVENTURE!! Okay so we were going to have a branch picnic which was super exciting because we haven't had one of these in a while. What we didn't realize is how long it would take to get there. It was about over an hour and a half by bus and the bus only left at 10am and 1pm. Picnic starts at 1. hmmmmm. 10am it is. Elder Kjeldson and Elder Owen joined us on our fun journey. Well we all get to the bus station and are waiting. Oo! We see our bus yay! Um well bus goes flying right past us. Bruh. The next one is literally coming at 1pm. So we decide to go to the train station and just get another random bus just close ish to the area and then maybe find some local busses. We do that and get to the town. Well no local busses but what we can do is walk for an hour. Whelp buckle your boots and straighten your tags because that is just what he did and it was so fun. We just walked all throughout the cute countryside for a while hour. 

1hr walk type beat

If there was any song to describe the vibes of that hour long walk it would be "Send Me on My Way" by Rusted Root. The picnic itself was really really really amazing. A good amount of people showed up and we all just ate some amazing food (čevapčiči :D), talked a bunch, and played a bunch. The coolest thing was I was able to talk to a bunch of the members about a common connection we had. My stake president back at home, President Haglund, was actually the branch president in Ljubljana and lived there for three years. All of the members loved him and his family so much so we were able to talk about how cool their family is. So thank you Haglund family for being amazing. Slovenia misses you!

The cat that came and cuddled me while we were waiting for everyone else to come to the picnic :,) tears

- Sunday was really good too! I gave a talk in church! I was asked to give a talk about missionary work and it went really well! I was pretty nervous but you know what send it. My parents watched on zoom which was super sweet because it was literally 4am their time. Later I made some bomb mac and cheese. 

Anyways this week was so amazing 19384938753929284/10