the candles from all saints day
a building inside the grave yard... but we never figured out what it was.
ghost version of me and elder brown. but elder brown moved so i told him that i was going to crop him out. he was just too excited to be a ghost.
from the park next to the church
artsy picture that i thought looked cool
congrats to dad. i am very proud to have old retired parents now. sounds like the visit with adam was fun. wish i was there to join in on the fun. let me know how the elections go. you know. the props that pass and dont and the seats in the senate and all that jazz. i need to know so i dont waste my time wondering. even though i will all this week. i might just ask president hill tomorrow at zone meeting what the turn out is. halloween is NOT the same here. i think i saw about 6 trick or treaters. lame. and they're all scary things. which is okay. of course. but they arent anything fun. like a racecar driver like me :] the bigger holiday was all saints day and its not really a holiday for anything. they just put candles in the grave yard and it looks cool. its going well. i like elder marchant a lot. of course we're getting to know each other every day. i think this week we're going to start talking in croatian 24/7. he's pretty good with the language too. he has been here in croatia for 9 months i think it is and i have for 8 or something. so he's been here longer but did have that break where he went home for 3 months for the operation. he knows some words that i dont know, but sure isnt used to speaking in croatian this much. even as much as we do right now. but when we start to do it 24/7 i think itll help him and stuff to be a little more comfortable with speaking in croatian. its good exercise. his knee is pretty good. he cant play sports or anything like that, but its healing well i think. sometimes when we walk too much, it swells and hurts the next day. but it sure doesnt affect the work. we can do everything we were doing before. we taught a guy this week named mario but i dont think he's really interested. he's just really interested in finding out the differences between us and the catholics and then he really likes the fact that we're from america. i mean half the people here are interested in that. haha stella is great. we did service this past week but nothing too exciting happened. elder jones still has back problems so he cant do service. so we have to help them out. we're still passing out english fliers for the sign up day which is next monday. so we'll see how many people come and for which classes. im hoping a lot of people show up. im super excited for this transfer and english classes. the fliers look great and we're doing great handing them out. a lot of people sound interested. we have a piano at church. elder jones kinda knows how to play so he plays the most often, but thats probably the hardest part about sundays is the music haha. no one leads music cause its not really needed. but maybe someday in another ward. i used to in rijeka sometimes. but here we dont really need it. when more people come, maybe. there's not a whole lot to tell about this week. we had a couple lessons with people and we went over to lidija's house with alen and little lydia there. that was fun. she's going to make us sarma for elder browns birthday on friday. so im SUPER excited about that :]]] we also had a lesson with alen that went well. we had a lesson with ivana. a lesson with mario. and i think thats it. he became a "new investigator" so im glad for that. i just hope he really is interested and keeps wanting to learn more. i cant wait to come home and celebrate real halloween :] i dont really know what you guys want to hear from me. i always feel like these emails are super duper boring and have nothing to do with missionary work or anything. sorry everyone! i should be better about that. here's a small story. it was all in croatian, but ill type in english of course.
so we were walking to an appointment (that ended up falling through) and we saw a couple older guys standing by some pumpkins. one was carved too.
so we stopped and elder marchant says, "hey thats cool".
they stare at him and say "... what?"
marchant just says "well that pumpkin right there. thats what we do in america and we havent seen one like that here yet"
they give him a weird look and say " we didnt do it. some other boys did it."
elder marchant kinda just says "oh.... well... then thats not cool"
after that we ended up talking to them for quite a while and found out that one of their wives is from england and the kids knew English and had little accents and everything. so it was cool we talked about what we do and everything. its just good for people to understand that we're not jehovah's witnesses or catholics. we need to just get our name out there.
announcement for everyone. i need recipes. i want recipes. but here's a little twist. they cant contain measurement like "1 can of..., 1 packet of..., 1 stick of..." cause they dont exist here. i could figure it out maybe, but still i dont know. some recipes that ive thought of:
- any cookies!
- breads that are good and easier
- cakes or brownies or something
- pizza ideas (already have amys famous from cammy, thanks!)
- any meals that are fairly easy
- anything that is cheap, fast, simple, good, and healthy. if it fits into that category, send :]
- ivy, those cookies you made me before i went into the mtc. they're the chocolate ones that are always moist. i LOVE those.
ill write more if i can think of more, but usually i dont so i guess this is good for this week. i love you all and thanks for everything!
love
elder jacobsen
