The time flies by . . . Where did November go?

The schedule for the middle of November was FULL of travel. Sister Lamb and I traveled to Zagreb for the District Relief Society Conference. Our traveling and borders were uneventful (which is just the was we like them - lol). We had a wonderful time at the conference - learning, socializing and making new friends with other women from other parts of Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia.

After the activity on Saturday, we (Sister Lamb, Suzana and I) took a bus to downtown Zagreb and enjoyed the sites. It was fun to see the city at night. 

We walked and visited and felt very safe. The night air was a little chilly and we were happy to get home to our warm hotel - and tired from our walk, we slept very well. 

Sister Lamb and I drove home on Sunday afternoon and on Monday morning, we headed to Belgrade for the first of 2 Missionary Zone Conferences. Belgrade ZC on Tuesday and Wednesday and Zagreb ZC on Thursday and Friday. One of the activities of ZC was for the young missionaries to create a video testifying of Jesus Christ. In Belgrade they filmed in Serbian and in Zagreb they filmed in Croatian. They did the filming for the English version in Zagreb and the Slovenian one several weeks prior. 

This is one of the amazing challenges and miracles of our mission - 3 local languages (4, if you count English). Translation and communication is a component that must be considered - it can be challenging, laborious, beautiful and sometimes, comical :-)

This time at ZC, Lot and I both had the oppoortunity to help in teaching activities. Lot lead a scripture Jeopardy activity and I lead scripture block activity, where we looked for Christ-like characteristics. It was great!

The last week of November is of course Thanksgiving (in the United States). That week was also "transfers" and 24 incoming new missionaries - so it was a crazy week mission-wide.

These 7 sisters and 2 elders returned home, after faithfully finishing their missionary service. Our hearts were tender as we served the the same cities with all but one of these amazing young adults 💕

Thursday (Thanksgiving) was the day all the new missionaries and their trainers returned to their assigned cities - so the Thanksgiving dinner was postponed for a day or two. Our Thanksgiving dinner was hosted by Elder and Sister Lamb, with two brand-new missionaries, a missionary new to our city and our friends Maddy, Jonny and Michael. We had chicken (a whole turkey is hard to find), mashed potatoes w/ gravy and pies. It was delicious and felt like home. 

There are so many things for which we are grateful - our family, our friends, our mission and our Savior, Jesus Christ.