Conference Week. We showed conference this week! It worked a
lot better this time than the last, where we had a small lunch in between
sessions, took out the singing, and shortened the time between sessions. A
really good treat for all the members is that both Elder Hallstrom and
President Johnson spoke, who visited here in February or March. I really
enjoyed Holland's talk this conference, about how important faith is. We just
need to show the faith, and God will always be there to support us! One
disappointment though is a few months back, a member of the translation
committee promised us that this session would be translated into Macedonian,
but we have yet to see anything.
There's been some protests again, just about the same time
as last year! They don't seem to be nearly as serious as last year's though.
I went on exchanges with Elder Bowen, our new Russian
missionary who is a little fireball. He was an orphan and got adopted by an
American LDS family when he was 15. We did a language study together, and as
various Macedonian words came up, he would know most of them! He's got such a
head start! The grammar however, is radically different, so he can't really
talk too much yet. We ended up spending the day with Elder Chingas and Dibble,
our companions, anyways because we're not supposed to work in center with the
protests going on.
So for a food note, the hamburgers always come with fries in
them! There's a restaurant called Sedmica (Seven) close to our apartment, and
they've got the best burgers in the city! The beef that's used in burgers is
way weird, so I always go for the chicken. They give you a tiny plastic fork,
and you eat away at the fries until you can finally fit a bit of the burger in
your mouth. They also smother them in ketchup and mayonnaise.
There's a ton of little basketball courts between apartment
buildings, so we joined in on one the other day! From what I've seen,
Macedonians aren't too good at basketball. Elder Chingas is pretty dang good,
and we were on the same team for some 3-on-3, and we won pretty handily. They
also had quite the colorful language, testing our knowledge of Macedonian
slang. It was really fun though! We've also been playing every week with a
member, an investigator, and all the missionaries coming.
That's it for this week! Love you all
Elder Rigby
