One of our greatest Joys

This past week or so has been busy with some of our regular missionary work - teaching a "Find a Better Job" class over Zoom, visiting members of the congregation and preparing lessons. But in this post, I am going share one of the greatest joys that we experience - the joy of relationships. 

When we served our first mission, an unexpected joy was that we became life-long friends with some of the other missionaries serving in Germany; both young and senior. With some missionaries, our hearts will be eternally tied together - because of our shared experiences and service.  Since we got home from Germany; we've met for weekend retreats, gone to dinner, sent wedding gifts and kept in touch. 

Our experience this time is also filled with personal connections. Only this time, we have had much more interaction with the young elders and sisters. We've shared meals, driven to meetings, shared fun sight-seeing P-day activities, counseled together and labored together to invite others to make covenants with God. We've given and received gifts, been taught and helped teach lessons and encouraged and been lifted up. Together, we've served, studied and prayed.

We greatefully give a "huge shout out" to the young missionaries for their gracious willingness to help us with "language" tasks that are beyond our current Bosnian skills. They proof read flyers to make sure we are not saying something offensive or crazy. They provided live translation for our talks when we give the message or our testimonies in Sacrament Meeting. They have helped us understand parking tickets and traffic signs.

Today, Lot and I counted. In the congregations of Sarajevo or Podgorica, we have served with over two dozen amazing young missionaries and 3 senior couples. This does not count the interaction we've had mission-wide, with the 75 +/- young elders and sisters and the 51 senior missionaries. 

So today, I will just post some pictures of these amazing human beings - that have blessed our lives forever.