Thursday, April 8, 2010

Pula, Bucharest S&I Mtg, & Baptism in Beograd

Our visit to Pula gave us an opportunity to visit with The Tolemans and Harris' from Camarillo. They were on a 24 day trip through Eastern Europe.

We spent a week in Bucharest, Romania for a S&I Faculty Meeting. While there we met some Romanian friends of Tom & Judy Everton. They met Serban and his wife in Arizona while on their mission there a few years ago. He had his granddaughters with him who were visiting from Germany.
We saw a beautiful double rainbow while they were visiting. It was the first any of us had seen. This is also the Peoples Palace, 2nd largest bldg. in the world.
On our final day in Bucharest Marin and his wife took us to the Heritage Museum where we saw homes from the 17th century. Very beautiful day.
Our British Faculty joined us for this faculty meeting. It was great to be taught by them. Our Europe S&I Coordinator was sustained as an area seventy, Christian Fingerle during Conference.

Sister Dumner, YSA center couple in Bucharest; Sister Heywood S&I Coordinator in Czech Republic, Sister Iachimov, wife of our East Europe Coordinator and myself at the conference.

We left Ljubljana early Monday morning. Arrived in Bucharest and had our first meeting with Bro. Jensen where we were taught about opening and closing seminary & institute classes, how to help and support our teachers.


A view of the beautiful country we live in. Spring has arrived and it is just beautiful.

We were invited to meet with Elder & Sister Wondra, President & Sister Hill, Elder & Sister Schmoe, (humanitarian missionaries), Elder & Sister Thompson and our District Presidents. We had an opportunity to discuss the rising generation we work with.
March 27 we were in Beograd for the bapatism of Velimir. He had great support from the YSAs in Beograd. He spent some time with us at the New Year's party we had in Ljubljana.


Nothing better than a baptism to feel the Spirit of the Lord.


Elder & Sister Lewis with Velimir
Ljubljana Institute and activity. They were having a wonderful time together which is what we hope for.
Davor and Stanka were in charge of the refreshments. Davor's speciality is Palacinkas (Norwegian Pancakes. They went fast. Davor and Stanka will soon we are newly weds. They are being sealed in the Frankfurt Temple on April 27th.

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