Week #51

Sretna Nova Godina!-Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and are excited for the new year! This last week was a great week talking to people at home. There are so many people we found at home and that we'll be visiting after the holidays. They were a little busy with the excitement of the holidays and guests over, but they said we could come back and talk to them more. We're going to be so busy these next few weeks! I'm so excited! Today is New Year's Eve and we're having a birthday party for Elder Matosich and celebrating the new year :) It was exciting yesterday to hear from this woman in Split (3 hours away but she's still in our branch boundaries). We've been in contact with her a little bit and she told us she was going to go to come to church. This shocked me so much! Her faith has been down and it's been a big struggle to lift her up. But she came! And it was so great to talk to her face to face and help her get a reboost. Hopefully with all these new missionaries coming out that more places will be opened up so the church can grow here tremendously. We'll see. Last night when we went tracting, we were talking to this lady and she was a little strange at first, but then she said 6:30 (because that was the time) and then it seemed like a flip switched. She started chanting and when she saw the picture of Jesus on the back of a pamphlet Sestra Trumbo had, she grabbed it and started kissing the picture and kept chanting talking about the sun and the moon. It was really weird. But what was even weirder to me that afterward I felt a huge love for her. There are so, so, so many people in this country who have been effected so much by the war which happened in all these adults' lifetimes. I don't know if this woman we tracted into was a not there because of the war or what, but I felt this love for her and a desire for her to understand what the gospel can do for her. In 1 Nephi 11:17 Nephi knows that God loves his children nevertheless he doesn't know the meaning of all things. I switched it up for me that I don't know the meaning of all things like why these people have to be effected by all these hardships nevertheless God loves his children. No matter what happens in life, the Atonement can fix it. We just have to do our part so the enabling power can do its part. So will you take some time and allow the Atonement to heal your life? I know it can. It has healed mine many times. Start this year with no regrets and moving forward to a new year bright and full of hopes and dreams! Because you can totally reach them! Volim vas!

S vjećnom ljubavlju,
Vaša kćer,

Sestra Kristine Jolley

Uvijek Sljedići Braće