Week 68 - coolest experience ever

Hi guys!!!!! This week was pretty cool! I had one of the coolest experiences ever happen to me on Tuesday so stay in tune for that! :)

Pday was super fun! We went to Vintgar and Bled which were absolutely g o r g e u o s!!! I have always wanted to go to Vintgar but never had a chance to so this was amazzziinnnggg! We also walked around Lake Bled and got some ice cream (woooo!). It was so fun. 

Selfie in vintgar (peep the amazing color of the water!)

Vintgar again

A waterfall/cool bridge in Vintgar

Ice cream at Lake Bled (6/10 - not too bad)

Lake Bled selfie!

Tuesday was an amazing day! First off we had a lesson online with Alain and that was really cool because two of our members joined who could speak french. This helped a lot because Alain understands a good amount of English but it can still be hard for him to express himself/understand everything. The lesson went really really good and he said he was interested in learning more so wooooooooo!!!! 

We also got a referral where a person filled out one of our ads for us to contact them so I called her and she was like yo what i don't remember this I'm not interested. BUT THEN! Like an hour later she called me back and was like wait a minute I actually am interested and so we had a 30 minute lesson on the spot and talked about our purpose here on Earth and where we came from. She was super sweet and around our age so that was even cooler. We hope to keep in contact with her. 

Ice cream #2 (Hazelnut from McDonalds and very mid)

Anyways enough waiting here is the coolest thing that has ever happened to me on my mission thus far. We went to go visit one of our members who is in the hospital (i've mentioned her in past emails) and she is the sweetest person ever. She had asked us beforehand to bring two copies of the Book of Mormon so she could give it to two people who wanted it. So we go but it is rainging which means we can't walk around but instead have to go to this pavillion thing. A lot of people are already there but we end up just sitting at one of the tables. Well after a bit, one of the girls that Iva wanted to give the Book of Mormon to showed up and was so excited that we were there. She kept inviting us over to her house for lunch and dinner and was so excited. She wanted us to write something in the Book of Mormon for her and was just so excited that we came. Well there were three people sitting across from us and obviously they get curious. One woman started speaking to us in english because she had been an english teacher. So we were chatting with her and then the guy next to her brought the conversation back to slovene and asked us if we had a message to share with them. And boy do we have a message for them!! So we ended up sharing Mosiah 24:14 (my favorite verse) and talked about the context of the scripture and it was just so so so cool because we were able to share that sripture which talks a lot about peace and our burdens being lifted to a group of people who are struggling. Sadly, they had to leave early because of dinner but they said they wanted to do this again. So next time when we go back, we will bring more copies of the Book of Mormon :) such a cool experience because the spirit underneath that pavillion was unlike anything I had ever felt. UGH SO AMAZING!!!!

Onto the rest of the week. Sestra Smith and I finally got to work in the botanical garden and it was so fun. We spent the entire morning weeding and making the different plant sections look pretty. It was so fun. I can't wait to do it again :)

Working in the botanical garden ;)

A snail! Or slug? I don't know the difference

We spent some more time in the hospital on Friday and found out that everything is okay so woooo! Also my mtc teacher Brat Kunzler came back on a visit so we got to see him and say hi.

On Saturday they had a city-wide walk to walk around a specific path in Ljubljana. This path is where the old fence had been when Ljubljana was essentially being controlled and in lockdown by whoever was ruling at that time. But every year they do a big walk to celebrate when the wall was taken down. It was so much fun. We walked a good portion of it with a member family. At one of the check points instead of giving you water or juice, we got alcohol free beer. It was so funny. 

Open kitchen in center woo

The weather this week has been amazing! It has been mid 70's basically all week! Wooooo! 

I'm going to start a new count for the random tourists who recognize us on the street because they are members too. Since summer is coming there will def be a lot of them. The count won't count how many people just the interaction itself. 

Tourist member interactions: 4

Ice cream count: 3 !!!!!

Love you all!!