Thu 3/22/07 1:15 AM

Dear Family,
Well we sent missionaries home after their mission on the 13th March and received new ones the same day. It is quite an experience doing this every 9 weeks. The flight was cancelled for those arriving and those leaving were suppose to take the same plane out. But since it did not come in their flight was cancelled also. So we came back to the mission home for about four hours until the next flight from the same airline. It all worked out eventually. We had one Elder whose parents came to pick him up and he toured with them for one week. Then he was on a different flight than his parents and he missed his flight, so he had to stay an extra two days. Then his flight was cancelled also so he had to stay one more morning. He eventually left also. What an ordeal. We did orientation on the 14th and sent them to their areas of assignment. On thursday the 15th March we took our two Slovene Zone Leaders and a member ( he is a convert of last year ) to Portoroz which is about one and one half hours drive away. We had a lesson with a referal that I received from Brigham City from a Brother Bill Hensley. This young lady stayed with them for about 3 months. We committed her to be baptized on the 31 March here in Ljubljana. She will come this saturday and stay overnight at our home and go to church with us and then return to Portoroz. She will do it again the following weekend for her baptism. On the 17thMarch we went to Maribor to a baptism of a 13 year old boy. His family wants to be baptized also but the mother and father need to get married. There is also a 16 year old daughter. It is amazing to see the influence for good the church has on this family. On sunday we went to church in Rijeka, Croatia. It is on the coast by the Adriatic Sea. We experience the most spiritual sacrament meeting of our mission. Most of the members were there early and sitting in their seat listening to prelude music for 8 to 10 minutes before the meeting started. Also the sacrament was already and covered. And the Leaders were sitting in their seats on the stand. The talks were great also. It was a joy. Then a young 18 year old sister that I was able to give a priesthood blessing to last year before she was baptized taught the sunday school lesson. She was really prepared and did a first class job. She is the one that held off being baptized for a couple of years and the blessing turned her around. She kept saying to the sister missionaries: "How did he know" They just told her that God knows and spoke to you through him. Today I have to go to Zagreb to meet with the District President and a member to handle a problem. We have been busy this week catching up on responding to emails. You would be amazed at how much time I have to spend at this computer. I can actually type again after years of not doing much. I will never have alot of speed, but it is better than it was. MaraDee types so fast that it makes my fingers tired just to watch her. She and JR Hansen have really been a blessing to this mission and to us personally. We don't have replacements yet and I am really concerned. I must have more faith. Well I have to go. Love all of you alot. Dad