Travelling around Bosnia

This week we spent a few days getting to know Bosnia. The Stafford's are helping us to get introduced to many people here.

On Tuesday we drove in two cars to Mostar. It is a city in southern Bosnia that is populated heavily with Muslims. We have one elderly women there that is a member of the Church. She is the only member for 150 miles around. She has a great story, in fact it was published in the March 2025 edition of the Liahona. She always feed the missionaries when they come to visit her. She made us some traditional Bosnian food that was fantastic.

We took some time to drive up to a large cross that is above the city, it is called the Millennium Cross. It is 100 feet tall. It was built on Hum Hill by the Croats after the Bosnian War in the 1990s  . It was built as a symbol of peace but it is offensive to the Muslim faith.

On Saturday, all eight of us missionaries and President Casbeer, our Branch President drove 3 1/2 hours north to a city called Banja Luka. It is the second largest city in Bosnia. Since it is at the opposite end of Bosnia from Mostar this city's main population are Serbs, who are Christian Orthodox. These are the two main groups that fought each other during the war. Our missionaries were removed out of this city about 1 1/2 years ago. We still have some faithful members there, so we go up once a month to visit them. It was so nice to see a beautiful sunny day.( first sun we have seen since we have been here) It was a nice drive, it opens up to a large valley with lots of farms. It reminded me of home.

We were pretty late getting home last night, but it was a great day. We are enjoying being here as we get to know our way around and getting to know the people.