Adventures with friends

Our new couple the Lambs, that replaced our friends the Stafford's who went home to Boise, had to go to Germany for some training. So we needed to stay here in Bosnia to take care of some things. We will not be able to spend as much time as we had hoped in Montenegro this month. Helen has been as to be our Church's official representative here in Bosnia. That means she has to sign all the legal papers for visas and apartments and such. She even has an official stamp that she has to stamp everything with. All she needs now is a sheriff's badge.

We have been looking at apartments because we are getting another set of young missionaries to work here in Sarajevo. We decided on one that is super nice. It will be the envy of all the other missionaries, but if it works to get them to want to come here, then it is worth it. 

This week transfers were announced on Thursday. that is when our young missionaries get moved around to different areas. We cover five countries and have about 75 young people that work in them. We as senior couples don't usually move but the young people do. So on our P-day (preparation day) we decided to do a little site seeing, in case if our young friends were to get transferred. 

We started out on our adventure by visiting "Tito's Bunker". It is only about 45 minutes from us. You should look it up online. It's amazing, it was built to house 350 people in case of a nuclear attack. They started it in 1953 and didn't finish it until 1979 at a cost of $5 billion. What a waste of money and effort. The amazing thing was it was kept completely a secret until 2011.

These are pictures of the outside. It looks like a normal house along a small country road but the walk in door and the garage door are the entrances to the bunker. You can see our wonderful Muslim tour guide. We asked her how it was kept a secret for so long and she said back then nobody asked questions even if something seemed odd.

This shows how long the halls are inside, I guess if 350 people were going to live and work in there it had to be big.

Next we went to Mostar to see our dear friend Ljubica, who lives there. She and Helen have become great friends.

We asked Ljubica who painted the pretty little picture behind them on the wall and she said a young sister missionary that had served in this mission a few years ago. When I looked closely at it, she had signed it. It was Callie Perrin who is from our home town in Idaho. How crazy is that, what a small world.

We also visited the Old Bridge in Mostar that is world famous. It was built by the Ottoman king when they conquered this area.

We finished the day with another very famous site near Blagaj. The monastery was built in 1520 by the Dervish. It is at the site where a large river comes out of the mountain.

We had a grand day, then on Thursday when the transfers were announced, none of our missionaries are being transferred. Well we had a fun day anyway.

Then on Friday it was March 14th which is Pi Day, 3.14. It t is one of Helen's favorite days of the year. Anyone who knows Helen knows how much she loves pie. She even sings a song about it.

Well you might say it was a very fulfilling week.

We did work also, it wasn't just all site seeing and baking - but those were very fun.