Londyn LaRose Mission: Week 41

Wassuuupp y'all welcome back to another email! This is for October 17-23rd. We are almost caught up guys don't you worry. The explanation for the title is near the end

a new feature we found out we could do on zoom

- Pday on Monday was fun! We hiked to the top of the mountain/hill thing in the park to the restuarant and ate goulaš with the other sisters - so so so so so so so yummy

The pink church at the top of the park hill that is right next to the fire restaurant

- We also went shopping at a new place and we found out new favorite store. It is called Tedi and it is just like a dollar store but not everything is a dollar sadly. We made some unneccesary but also so necessary purchases. We both got one of those diamond paintings and a bunch of other fun crafts things for super super super cheap

- Also today we did a pretty scary thing and went into center to hand out english flyers to people. We went with two of the other elders hear and made a deal that if we handed out two stacks out of four, we could celebrate and get ice cream. Well I handed out my entire stack. And Sestra Hancock handed out her entire stack. So you know what that means.... ICE CREAM COUNT ON ONE WOOOO

- The next day we went out to breakfast with Alejandra and it was so good! We went to this really cute place to eat and it was good to get to know her more.

My breakfast :D

- Ooo also on this Tuesday we had a FIRE lesson with Leon. We met up at the church for the first time and while we were waiting for Leon to show up, we saw that one of our members was there. He asked us how missionary work was going and we told him great, we have a lesson in like 2 minutes. He straight up was like alright can I join your lesson and help? Um...... ABSOLUTELY!!!!! When Leon arrived we went around the church to show him around and our member just went OFF which was so helpful. He explained everything that could possibly be explained and just explained it in a way that would have taken forever for me to translate and say haha. It was just so good. And then we read from Alma 32 together (fire fire fire chapter) and he was literally like woah this totally answers my prayers - I have been looking at things too logically and that is not what faith is - woooooooaaahh so so so so so cool that he is learning and growing. so yeah that was amazing.

The bus broke down for a solid 20 minutes rip

- The next day the other sisters and us went and had dinner at the Kralj's. Now this is the mom and dad of my mtc teacher!! How cool. Also I forgot to mention but her dad was the one that joined the lesson yesterday. What a guy so cool. They made amazing amazing amazing food. I ate until I was STUFFED.

- Also another cool thing on Thursday was we visited another one of the member families here to celebrate because both the wife and Sestra Hancock had birthdays this past week. It was so fun. She made this absolutely scrumptious apple pastry cake thing and zooweemama lovely.

- We also met with a new girl named Natalija - she responded to one of our Facebook ads and was like yo come to my house! I want to me you! So we did and she gave us tea, cookies, a lollipop, and so much more. She was so sweet and she also had a cat that had the zoomies nearly the whole time which was so funny. We hope that she will continue meeting with us

Breakfast with Alejandra ft. my massive scarf because it was FREEZING

- On Saturday we had another Polynesian dance night! It was super fun! I definitely not very good at it but hey I am learning.

Pretty view :)

- Okay here is where the title comes in. So apparently every 3rd Sunday in October they have this massive massive marathon where everything gets shut down. The roads are all cut off and the busses don't go where they usually go. On Friday and Saturday they started closing down the routes but it was just the route to center and so that just added maybe an extra 10 or so minutes to the travel. So Sunday rolls around and we are like alright we don't need to worry it is just ten minutes longer which doesn't affect us that much. Well um. More and more roads are closed and it is looking like we are going to have to be a little late. Maybe 10 minutes but nothing crazy. We get on this one bus and it takes us in the complete OPPOSITE side of the city. Well. Um. We still need to go to church! No buses are coming anytime soon so we decide to walk. Well it is about an hour long walk and it is right alongside the race almost the entire walk.

The marathoners

So anyone that may know the missionaries and our church would see Sestra Hancock and I "ditching" church hahahaha. So so so funny. We cheered on the people and just trudged along. Oh and did I mention that it was POURING rain on us? Yeah that too. We ended up pulling up almost an hour late. We literally came in right at the end on the closing talk and hymn. The rest of the day was good too.

Taking a break after having been walking for 30 minutes to the church (in the pouring rain)