Back in Sarajevo - Hooray

We drove back from Montenegro on Monday. It feels nice to be back in the mountains where it is 30 degrees cooler. It is so hot and dry in Montenegro that there are wildfires everywhere. Some right in town and many in the mountains. They suppress the ones close to towns but the ones out away they just let them burn. We drove right by one that seemed to be started by a smoker, since it started right on the road and burned up the hill. There was one we stopped and watched that a retardant plane was dumping on. It brought back lots of memories from my days on fire.

One thing that drives me nuts here is how and where people park their cars. When these cities were built very few people owned cars so there are few parking spots so people park anywhere. If there isn't any place else they just stop in the middle of the road and put on their 4-way flashers and get out and go into the stores. It takes two people to drive here. One to drive the car and the other to watch for parked cars and pedestrians that don't even look they just walk out in front of you like they own the road.

This weekend there was an international Folk Fest here in Sarajevo. Yes since it was music, Helen was not to be deterred from going. There were a couple of group that even had a bass, so she was happy for that. There were dance groups from 14 countries around Europe with authentic costumes and dances. It was fun but they had the music so loud it was worse than a rock concert.

We went to visit this 84 year old lady that we know who lives up in the mountains by herself, except for her 20 cats. Every time we go visit her, we ask her how she is feeling and she always says "Oh I will probably die later today". But she is still there the next time we go. She doesn't speak English, only Bosnian and German so we have to talk to her in German. Her husband died last August so she really misses him. This week it was amazing how she perked up by the end of our visit. So I don't think she died that day.

Saturday was Elder Lamb's birthday, he turned the big 65. So we went with them and the six young missionaries to eat cevapi, a local favorites. It's like 'Little Smokies' that you eat with onions and kaymak in a flatbread. 

We really are having a wonderful time. We see God's blessing in our lives everyday. There are awesome people here that we have come to love. We feel very blessed in what we are doing