A Little Bit of Home and Family for Our Missionaries

We really enjoy being a part of a missionary district with 4 young missionaries. We're so fortunate to have Elder Shaw and Elder O'Brien and Sister Zemenchik and Sister Christensen. We also had Sister Robertson and Sister Ashdown in our district for a few weeks. All of these missionaries like to sing so they've provided our branch with musical numbers many Sunday's.  We enjoy providing a "home away from home" for the missionaries and are surprised how much we love them like "sons and daughters."  They are so good and dedicated to the gospel of Jesus Christ.  They are a wonderful example to both of us.

 

 We enjoy having them over on Sunday for dinner and going on P-days with them. One P-day we met at the Farmer's Market in Centar and each of us bought an edible item we'd never eaten and then later at our house we put together a dinner with all of the ingredients. We ate unusually striped beans, a turnip-like veggie cooked with a pumpkin-like squash, ginger candy, and black (fish) pasta.

Another P-day we met at the church and walked to the entry of the 561 steps to Trsat. Trsat is part of the city of Rijeka. Wikipedia says "it's a steep hill, 138 m high, rising over the gorge of the Rječina River, about a kilometer away from the sea. It was strategically significant from the earliest times right up to the 17th century." There is a historic castle/fortress that you can climb to the very top for a 360-degree view. We visit the Trsat castle with every new missionary.

We took our missionaries once to Pula, a town with a famous Roman Colosseum.   And we have gone twice to Rovinj, a charming 15th-century island that is now a peninsula.  There is a church with an old bell tower we have climbed now three times.  It is fairly scary as it is made of old wood steps that you can look down through the cracks to the bottom of the tower.

We have taken our Sisters to Postonja Castle in Slovenia and then on to Rijeka.  And we have taken our Sisters to the Vršić Pass, build during WW I.  It has a wonderful view of the surrounding Julian Alps in Slovenia.