A week not to do again

There isn't much news to report this week; not even any good pictures to share.  Mostly because I have been sick all week.  Really sick.  Chills and fever, achy, constant chest cough that won't stop kind of really sick.  Now that you all feel sorry for me, I am on the mend.  I did stay home from church today so no one else would be exposed to a coughing fit.  Tomorrow I'll be forced to be more productive.

The area welfare couple from Frankfurt should have arrived early Monday afternoon to begin our training but they missed their flight and didn't get in until 10:00 PM.  They took a taxi to their hotel.  We had previously scheduled a trip to Mostar to visit a potential partner on Tuesday.  The local Red Cross partner here in Sarajevo volunteered to drive us to Mostar; we are so grateful he did.  It was a good trip getting to know him better and meeting his associate in Mostar.

We had training all the rest of the week, all day.  It was fairly tedious, especially since I didn't feel well.  But we did the best we could and even tried to show them a bit of Sarajevo when we went out for dinner in the evening.  We visited another local partner on Friday morning and then it was time for them to go to the airport.

I did get out of bed long enough yesterday to make cookies for Elder Corona's birthday on Monday.  John took the cookies to church with him this morning and Elder Corona promptly hid them away.  We'll make a cake and celebrate more with him at district meeting on Thursday.  That is also transfer announcement day so we'll find out who stays and who goes.  Elder King is going home so we know we'll have at least one new Elder here with us.

In spite of everything negative this week, we are glad to be here.  The gospel is true and we are happy to have a small part in building the kingdom here in this part of the vineyard.