Merry Christmas Everyone!
I can't decide if people in Novi Sad are the nicest people I've met on my mission,
or if everyone is just so nice because of the Christmas joy that flutters through the air...?
Either way! I'm loving it here in Novi Sad.
We have met some young college students lately and that has been super fun!
We try to meet up and talk with people in an environment that is quiet and where they can feel the Spirit,
but sometimes we end up teaching at restaurants or kafić's (cafes).
This week we met up with lots of young people at kafić's and we drank lots of hot chocolate!
By the way- the hot chocolate here is like hot pudding! It is so thick and delicious!
We have been trying new methods of finding people who are searching for truth. So this week we went "chalking"!
We drew a cute, simple nativities on the sidewalk and wrote links to Light the World and other things!
A few people asked us what we were doing, and then we got to talk a little bit about Christ and Christmas!
In Serbia, the main religion is Orthodox. They celebrate Christmas on January 7th! Which is really cool.
A lot of people have asked us ,"So which Christmas are you celebrating?" I have thought about that a lot.
It doesn't matter which day you celebrate, or how many presents you get, or how many sugar cookies you frost.
It matters that you celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. That Christ came into the world to take away all pain.
To give us hope. We should celebrate the day in history that changed all other days,
because we now can sing JOY to the World the Lord is come!
I am grateful that He was born, and that He lives. That brings me hope and joy!
Sister Dimas and I have had a lot of fun together!
In the Centar of Novi Sad they have a cute Advent, lights, music, smells, and Christmas spirit!
They have Chessnuts roasting on every corner! So we got to try "chessnuts roasting on an open fire"!
It is fun helping her adjust to missionary life and trying to help her learn Serbian.
Serbian is hard!! I have done a lot of reflecting to my 1st transfer and am grateful for everything I have learned.
I still have a ways to go.....
MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone! When you see your families, give them hugs and enjoy their company!
And to my family, I would be lying to say that the Christmas season doesn't pull at my heart strings a little extra.
I miss you all! But I'm so grateful for this time and the joy I feel in my life.
The Christmas season in the BEST time to be a missionary!
СРЕЋАН БОЖИЋ!!!! 
hurrah for israel!
волим вас
сестра гитинс
The other day on the street we were talking to this guy who said he had been in SLC.
He said he tried to go into the big building with the angel Gabriel on the top, but they wouldn't let him in.
Then he proceeds to ask in which mountain do we keep our spaceship to fly with Joseph Smith to heaven.
This is all in Sebian so my companion is completely lost.
I understood it all until he started asking about UFO's and all that.
So I reasked him to see if I understood and then he just blurts out in english-
"You are going on that spaceship thing hidden in the mountains to heaven!"
My companion was caught so off guard we were trying not to die laughing.. AWW good times (:
He continued to say he tried to pay to go in but they wouldn't let him hahha. so funny i was trying not to die laughing.
But he was super nice!
pictures:
Eating Chimney Cake in Centar!
We have to bundle up or we freeze!
and serbian pride (:
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