Sometimes the week is a blur. You go to bed on Monday night and when you wake up, it's Saturday morning. This is how I felt about this past week - YIKES!
We spent the most of our week in Podgorica. We celebrated the birthdays of two sister missionaries. Elder and Sister Allan graciously host Sunday dinner for the young missionaries at their house. Our friend, Nenad, joined us for the afternoon. It was "Happy Birthday", to Sister Porter. (Sister Allan has employed the "20" candles multiple times and luckily, everyone whose had a birthday at their house has turned 20- LOL)
The bulk of our week included the visits to congregation members, missionary meetings, language training, an evening English class and a trip on Thursday to the Montenegrin coast.
On Saturday and Sunday, we gathered to watch General Conference - broadcast from Salt Lake City. In adjusting for the time change, we watched some of the sessions "live" and some recorded from the previous day. It is a unifying feeling to know that we were gathered with latter-day saints from across the globe, to hear the words of modern-day prophets and apostles. Some saints gathered in chapels with the local members, some in their homes with family and/or friends and others watching or listening by themselves - the messages given were inspiring and encouraging. We were grateful for this blessing and the technology that makes it possible.
We drove with Elders McGraw and Biehn to Herceg Novi - a beautiful costal city that sits on the bay of Kotor.
It was a lovely day there :-)
After our meeting our member, Venessa and her husband, our day took us south to Budva. The quickest route was to take the ferry across the bay - and so our first ferry ride in the Balkans.
In Budva we visited with Sister Niktina, her son, Rostislav and another member, Zelko. The Niktins are always gracious hosts of their city, we discussed the possibility of an upcoming service project and shared a spiritual thought.
On Friday, it was back to Sarajevo. About 10 mintutes out of Nikšić, they really up the game of a "rest area". Lot is modeling the permanent roomy roadside bench with a breathtaking view of Lake Slansko.
(it looks like he was photoshopped in, but that really is the photo - lol)
As we drove towards Sarajevo and we could see spring was in full swing.
It was so fun to see the blossoms on trees and the vineyards budding out, and fields that had been recently turned. Lot's "farmer heart" always is looking at the soil.
Because we arrived in Mostar a little bit earlier than our appointment, we pulled in to check out to the regional airport (just "airport slumming", as we call it)
We met Elder and Sister Lamb at the home of our dear member, Ljubica. It was a visit to her, that was the purpose of our travel to Mostar. She was the gracious hostess, as always and we were blessed to be able to visit her.
About half way between Mostar and Sarajevo, is the town of Jablanica. Our bodies were tired of siting in a car and we stopped at the "Old Neretva Train Bridge" - mostly because it has easy parking (which is sometimes tricky to find) and a wonderful place to walk and stretch one's legs. We were able to stroll over the new bridge and walk down to the river on the steps.
We believe and teach, that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the same church Christ organized when He was on the earth - restored in our day. It has the same organization and authority as Christ's original church.
And just as in former times, we believe that God continues to speak through a modern-day prophet, our dear Russel M. Nelson. His conference message to the world - "seek to fill your life with charity and virtue".
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