Week 42 - pumpkin pie :,)

wait guys wait. Am I caught up?? No way ain't no way! It has literally been months since I have finally written and sent an email about the week I just had. Let's goooooo!!!! This week as a whole was pretty alright. There were a lot of fun highlights though so I'll focus on them. 

- On Monday Sestra Voigt and I got haircuts!!! Woooooo! I just got a trim and fix my layers but Sestra Voigt got bangs!! WOOOOOO!!! So fun. I love them

Post haircut!!

- Sestra Hancock and I met up with this one girl that I have been trying to meet up with for FOREVER!!! We went out to eat and it was so good to finally meet up in person

- On Wednesday we met up with this new guy. He actually first messaged me on Facebook looking to learn more. So we met up at the park and walked all around just talking about what we believe, how mission works, and whatnot. He is super cook and respectful as well. Oh and he could speak a little but of english and russian! Him and Sestra Hancock got to speak to each other in Russian which was sick

Reading by our river 

- On Thursday Sestra Hancock and I were in charge of English class and we literally just did MadLibs the whole time. It was so fun. I forgot how much I loved them 

- Thursday was stacked because we called through our ENTIRE less active member list to see if we could bring them cookies later in the list. Some of these people had not been contacted for years. Sadly not a lot of them answered back, but we did get two people who were like yes come over! We have a plan to visit a family on Sunday wooo!!

- On Friday we had exchanges wooo! I went with Sestra Voigt while Sestra Hancock and Sestra Williams were together. That was so so so so so so fun. In the morning Sestra Voigt and I had a phone call with a woman who responded to one of our ads. She wanted to know how to forgive. We were able to have a really good conversation about what forgiveness and repentance is. We hope to stay in contact with her. Then we met up with this other girl for some drinks and that was super fun. She nannied in America for a year or so and loved the missionaries there so she came back and wanted to meet the missionaries here. She is super super cool and laidback. 

- Oh and another really really cool thing that Sestra Voigt introduced me to was going to cemeteries and taking pictures of the grave stones. There is an app where you can take pictures of the headstone and upload it online so people in different parts of the world can find their relatives and ancestors. We went to this beautiful cemetery and took a bunch of pictures. This is also a good oportunity to comfort anyone in need of comfort. Whether it is words of love and support or the comforting truth that they will be reunited with their loved ones again. Also cemeteries in Europe are gorgeous. Absolutely stunning. 

The beautiful cemetery 

- Also as part of the exchange Sestra Voigt and I had a "spa night" where we did facemasks and played settlers of catan haha. I won :) 

On our exchange :)

- So do you remember that family that we set up to visit on Sunday? Well we went all the way to their house on a bus (maybe like a 30 to 40 minute bus  ride) and walked all the way through some fields (15 minutes) and all the way to their house only for it to have been the wrong address. We got there and there is a guy outside so we are like Hey yo are you ___? He's like no? So we say okay do you know a ___? He's like no I think you have the wrong address. Rip So we go call our guy again and he is like yeah I haven't lived there for 5 years. I live on the other side of Ljubljana (45 minutes away from us by car). Whelp. We started walking back to the bus station but then Sestra Hancock was like nah we gotta go back and talk to the family. There has got to be a reason why we had to go all the way here. So we go back and thank them for their help and explain the situation about it. Nothing super major happened. We didn't get their contact information, they didn't seem super interested in learning more, but you know what you never know what our little Hi thanks for your help can do

On the way to meetup with the family at the wrong address haha rip 

- Later that day we went and visited a members house (the same one we visited where we pulled out all of the weeds and bushes from their new property and then he fed us homemade pizza cuz he is a literal chef). Well we were going to go over with the other missionaries for pizza. And let me add a bit of context for y'all. So probably two months ago when Sestra Hancock and I both recently moved to Ljubljana we were going to go over to his house as an introduction thing. He asked us what we wanted to eat and we said pizza of course and then he asked what kind of dessert. I said pumpkin pie but then I realized dang that is a lot of work here because they don't have the pumpkin puree here like we do in America. So they would have to buy the pumpkin, cut the pumpkin, scoup out the guts, put the pumpkin in the oven with some water to soften it up, peel off the skin, puree the pumpkin, and then mix in all of the ingredients as well as make the dough. Essentially a LOT of work. We settled on him making brownies instead. Well. Flashforward to today and we walk in. The first thing he says is "Sister LaRose, you owe me big time". Guys. He made a whole pumpkin pie. :,) A WHOLE PUMPKIN PIE are you kidding me. and let me tell you that pumpkin pie was one of the best I have ever had. 1977728428495029274737210382428852983/10. I love my life haha. He even gave me the pumpkin puree so I can make another one for myself!!!!!

the heavenly pumpkin pie 

What a good end of the week. 

Pumpkin pie count: 1 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !