My life has changed! I am an AUNTY WHOOP WHOOP!!!( 3 november )

Afgelopen tijd was een beetje raar... Maar alsnog heel erg interesant! Ik ben naar Beograd gevlogen voor een conferentie en ook hadden we wat tijd om daar te besteden! Het is een mooie stad, van wat ik ervan heb gezien! Het is ook een grote stad! Heb voor het eerst mijn trainers, trainer ontmoet en ze is super awesome!
Ook heb ik mijn kerst/verjaardags-pakketje gekregen! EN ik heb pindakaas-chocokoekjes kunnen bakken! En het was super lekker!! (Dankje voor het sturen van de pindakaas MA!) Van de 70 koekjes die ik heb gebakken zijn er nog maar 25 over!! ( no worries, ik heb het gedeeld!)

Ook kreeg ik opeens te horen dat Sestra Kawai werd overgeplaatst en daar waren we niet zo erg blij mee... (we hebben gehuild over de telefoon en ik zie haar weer na 2 maanden!) Maar vlak erna kreeg ik bericht dat ik tante ben geworden van een hele mooie kleine prinsesje! Helaas moet ik het maar doen met een fotootje! En kan ik haar niet vasthouden en zal ik haar pas zien na haar 1ste verjaardag! :(

En ik heb een les gegeven over de wet van kuisheid.. I killed it! of hoe Harris het zou zeggen ' You destroyed it Sister Mahabier!' We hebben alles geplant voor Suada's doopdienst, maar nu nog het moeilijkste, het vertellen aan haar man. En dat is het moeilijkste! We weten namelijk niet hoe hij erop zal reageren! Alhoewel we hebben volledige vertrouwen erin!

Morgen zullen we een Halloween-ish party hebben.. En ik zal jullie er van op de hoogte houden ( als ik het niet vergeet!! XP)

And that's all folks!! Hou van jullie!
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The  past 2 weeks was a little weird ... but still very interesting! I flew to Belgrade for a conference and we also had some time to spend there! It is a beautiful city, from what I've seen it! It's also a great city! Got to meet my trainers,  trainer (sister Hendricks) and she is super awesome!
I also got my Christmas / birthday packet! AND I could bake some peanut butter-choco-cookies! And it was super yummy!! ( thanks for sending the peanutbutter MOM!) Of the 70 cookies I've baked, there are only 25 left over (No worries, I've shared!)

I suddenly also heard that Sestra Kawai was being transferred ( this Wednesday) and we were not very happy about it ... (we cried on the phone and I see her again after 2 months!) not long after I got the message that I've become a Aunt of a beautiful little princess! Unfortunately I have to do it with a picture! And I can not hold her and I will only see her after her 1st birthday! :(

And I gave a lesson on the law of chastity .. I killed it! or how Harris would say 'You destroyed it  Sister Mahabier!" We have planted everything for Suada's baptism, but now the hardest thing, telling her husband. We do not know how he will react! Although we have full confidence in it!

Tomorrow we will have a Halloween-ish party .. And I will keep you informed of it (if I remember !! XP)

And that's all folks !! Love you!

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Shaila Mahabier

Bijela Tabija ( 20 oktober )

My week summed up:
Today we went to the Bijela Tabija and we had an amazing view of the city!

We also had some mission-drama, due to some visa problems!3 elders have been transfered out of Bosnia.

Because of that, I got a wayy awesome picture of Elder Bailey in a misfitted suit.

I gave away another book of Mormon and someone else kinda snatched a Book of Mormon out of my hands.

German-class was way nice. (I almost fell asleep, and was thinking in Dutch all the time, I am the teacher, fyi. And now you all know about my love for German 0:D)

We also had A way awesome lesson with Almela, she is just freaking awesome, I love her!

I have a copy of the poem Invictus: The unconquerable on the back of my planner, we discussed it during English class and I actually like the poem.

and that was it..
I love you all!! ;)

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Shaila Mahabier

Weird things? ( 13 oktober)

So we had bajram on Monday, way fun... Spended my day in pants!! whoops! Haris' crazy uncle somehow was mesmerized by me and really wanted to take pictures of me.. I felt like a zoo-animal.. Without the weird caging! :P

We haven't done allot this week, we finaly watched conference did not understand allot, because the translation was waayyy to fast for me! So I had to read it at the same time!! I understood it better!! hooraayy!

we also had this crazy woman comming to church who wanted psalms to read and not just that she *brace yourselves, they are freaking real, apparently* is from Jupiter and Saturn! Her husband had to pick her up in a space shuttle..

After all that crazy we went hiking today!! Can't send pictures today, so maybe next week??
But we went just outside of the city and is was waaayy beautiful!!

AND I almost forgot! Last Friday was sestra Lefler's birthday.. and is was way awesome and we had allot of fun! I also finally got my package from home!! whoo waayy happy!! Got overloaded with chocolate!!! Gonna gain loads of weight!! whahahahaha... XD

Love you all!!

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Shaila Mahabier

Ps in the pictures below you can see what i did last week. ☺

Kurban-ul-Eid Mubarak!! (6 oktober )

Last week was wayy crazy!!
We where applying for my visa and we went with Emir, our lawyer. so when we reached the municipality-building they did not charge us! Wanna know why?? Because they said that I was beautiful and they just can't charge me any fee! hahahaha.. I was wayy happy!! XD

I also felt strongly that I should call the Tuzla sisters, so I did! Things wheren't going way well over there, but now they are! YAY! I am happy that I got to talk to my old companion Sestra Kawai! She is awesome!
We also rocked at our English class... It looks like there are more people interested!! And I totaly want to teach Zlatan & Damir! 
German class was good to!!! We talked about family members and body-parts! and next lesson we are going to make them sing ˝Kopf Schulter Knie und Fuß˝! Talking about that.. That is what President Grant made me Elder Uhlig and Elder Dyer sing in front of everyone, during Zone Conference.. I suck at it.. But that is okay..... I guess...

I was way happy with Zone cenference! I got to see Sestra Kawai And MERIDA! AKA Sestra Marlow!
I just wished the AP's brought our mail! But sadly enough they did not had enough time to load it all in the car and bring it!! It made me a little sad!
The funny-part of that was that I brought Elder Uhlig some lebkuchen, and because I wasn't very happy he offered me my cookies back.. X) He got to keep them! I am not that mean!! :p

My week was quite boring, and ow yeah it looks like I had a allergic reaction to something and my skin is slightly itchie.. whoops!! Long live good creams.. :p

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Shaila Mahabier

I also wrote Maaike a Monthly card! I Barney Stinson some accepted the challenge.. Do you Maaike??!! 0X)
And I got this sweet note from Dave Muntiga!!! Thanks!!!

Love you all!!

I accidentally invited someone over the phone to get baptized and she hung up on me! WHOOPS! (29 september )

So last week was amazing!
Naida got baptized! HARIS BAPTIZED HER!!! WWHOOOOO!!! I am so happy! My Bosnian brother had his first baptism!
So we had to prep allot for this baptism! We also had to move German-classes! But it was worth it! Even though I had less time to prep Sanja and I have given a great lesson! (if I may say so! hahaha)

So the baptism was on Friday and there was a ton to do! In all of this hectic run-a-round Dragica called, I asked her if she would like to come to the baptism this night and that we where not able to go to her! ( that is why she called, she wanted us to come) Somehow she thought I wanted her to be baptized... And she said something and hung up on me.. So my companion had to call her back! XD

whoops!!! Technology, you forget how to work it after a while!! hahahaha (note to myself don't just press ctrl + enter)

Anyways, Dragica didn't come to the baptism!
But allot of missionaries came and so did president Grant! It was his birthday as it was Naida's. We where running from one point to the other.. But everything worked out! It was a unforgettable day!

Naida made a choice that was hard for her! Luckily she has a great friend who supports her! After the baptism Pres. Grant took us to Vapiano! Whoop Whoop!! My fav. Italian restaurant!! BOOHYEAH!

And the best part was this I got lebkruchen, from Eld. Uhlig!! THEY WHERE SO GOOD!! My companion and I devoured every cookie!! Like speculaas, they are hard to find here, well, there are no good ones here!!! :(

two other things that are also totaly worth sharing!: 1 Suada looked at the font and said I am next! So people pray for her! She is progressing! and waaayyy awesome!!
2 I invited an investigator of the Elders to be baptized ASAP and not to wait! She said she would pray about it.. Now I need to follow up on that!!

Actually there is a third thing! My companion and I played a game, put stickers on the elders, without touching them and they noticing it! Let me tell you I GOT 12 STICKERS ON THEM!!! and yeah, I WON!! :)
They probably get me back for that, but that is okay, I have more stickers!! :D

Love you all!! XOXO

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Shaila Mahabier

a happy week.. a sad week! (22 september )

Mijn lieve familie en vriendjes!!!

Wat is er gebeurt deze week.. VEEL! Maar ik zal het kort houden!

Mijn week leek super goed te gaan, totdat we opeens te horen kregen dat Fedja, een inactief lid was overleden. We lopen elke dag langs langs en zagen opeens politie en mensen. Natuurlijk vroegen wij ons af wat is er gebeurd!! Mijn collega dacht dat er een gaslek was en ik zei nee.. Het lijkt erop dat iets is doodgegaan... Niet verder nadenkend zijn we doorgelopen naar huis.
Later kregen we van Josip te horen dat Fedja een overdosis drugs binnen heeft gekregen of alchohol vergiftiging en zodoende is overleden in zijn slaap. Hij lag 10 dagen dood in zijn woning, met Donna, zijn hond, je kunt wel raden wat er is gebeurd met zijn lijk.

Daar waren nog van in de shock en aan paar dagen later kregen we wat meer slecht nieuws maar dat alles bespaar ik jullie! Ik wil namelijk ook wat leuks delen!

Mijn lessen Duits lijken goed te gaan afgelopen week hebben we er weer eens 2 nieuwe studenten bijgekregen en een goede les in spelling gedaan met FANTA 4! - Mfg. En ze vroegen om huiswerk... 0.0

Daarnaast zijn we vandaag ook nog eens naar Tunel Spasa gegaan. Tijdens de oorlog werd deze tunnel gebruikt om de stad van eten en hulpmiddelen te voorzien. En het was vrij bijzonder om dit allemaal te kunnen zien! Zie foto's!
De foto van mij, de gaten in de muur zijn werkelijke kogelgaten!
En een foto van Eld. Bennett met de tunnel op de achtergrond!
EN een fotootje erbij van mijn schriften! Mensen ik lees mijn schriften in 3 talen! :D

In ieder geval tot zo ver mijn week!
Ik hou van jullie!

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Shaila Mahabier

TRANSFERS!!! (Mail van 15 september)

Dus deze week krijgen we te weten wie er wordt overgeplaatst en wie niet!! Om 17:00 -_-'

Gelukkig weet ik dat mijn trainer blijft en eerlijk gezegd ben ik daar zo blij mee.. en aangezien wij training nog steeds niet helemaal hebben voltooid, blijf ik en hoef ik gelukkig niet te gaan trainen! Ik zat daar een beetje erg tegen op aan te kijken, maar eind goed al goed! Haar vertigo heeft een bright-side! En wij zijn beide er heel erg blij mee!!

Ondertussen hebben we ookal 2 lessen Duits gegeven en we hadden beide keren een opkomst van 21 mensen!! En dat lijkt super goed te gaan!! :D

En de Prank-Wars gaan uiteraad gewoon door in volle vaart, het lijkt er zelfs op dat ik erin wordt betrokken. Zuster Lefler had Elder Stuarts Noteboek verstopt en de volgende dag toen hij ernaar op zoek ging vond Elder Bennett het voordat hij het vond en duwde het snel en stieken in mijn handen. Uiteindelijk gooide ik het de gang in en Zuster Lelfer verstopte het opnieuw en hield vol dat zij van niks wist! Aangezien ze bang is voor clowns.. Guess what.. Ze wordt terug geprankt met clowns!

Verder is er niet veel gebeurd! Maar ik hou van jullie!
Tot gauw!

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So this week we'll get to know who is being transferred and who is not !! At 17:00 today -_- '

Fortunately, I know my trainer will stay and frankly I'm so happy with that and since we still have to complete training I'll not have to train coming transfer!!!  I was not very happy when president told me he wanted me to train, so for me this is a blessing!! Her vertigo has a bright side! And we are both very very happy !!

Meanwhile, we have given two German classes and both times we had a turnout of 21 people !! And that seems to be going super !! :D

And Prank Wars obviously are still going on at full speed, it even seems that I managed to be involved, even though I wished not to be. Sister Lefler hid Elder Stuarts Notebook and the next day when he went looking for it Elder Bennett found it before he did it and pushed it quickly into my hands, before Elder Stuart saw it. Eventually I threw it into the hallway and Sister Lelfer hid it again, and insisted that she knew nothing! Because she is afraid of clowns .. Guess what .. She prank-ed back with clowns!

Well, there is not much that happened! But I love you!

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Shaila Mahabier

AND I HAVE A DATE

Suada has decided  to get baptised! She has set a date for November 8th! She is so awesome!!!!!!

We had zone-conference with... SUPERMAN.. So I had to take a picture!!

Last week we didn't do a load of stuff., but we had a fire side with sister Stay and it was very interesting!

Today we played laser tag with the elders and Eldar and Haris! We teamed up so we could stay in sight and hearing of each other!  I loved it! Afterwards we went bowling! We had fun! I love Eldar!! He is a great guy and he killed me a few times during laser tag! XD
My companion is awesome.. While having vertigo and not even being able of standing normally, she just played and fell.. and kept on playing!! XD

Actually this kinda sums up my week!!!

Love you guys!
see you soon!

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Shaila Mahabier

Today I just want to say happy birthday moj brat!

First things first!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHIVA!  Even though I am not there, i am celebrating your birthday!

What happened this week! We met with Suada, and she want to have all the lessons in one day! We just started to read from the book of Mormon out loud and she just asked if she could see it, she started reading.. Asked questions and guess what.. We gave her our lesson! OW DA! my companion is AWESOME! She pulled a LEFLER!

She is actually a good missionary and a prankster!
The Elders changed in the church ( they were playing volleyball with an investigator) and left their clothes. My companion took one of the pants and a watch and hid it in a drawer. and we left! (I was totally innocent btw.. I was prepping German!) So later the Elders called us and Elder Stuart was asking! Where are my pants!! Sestra Lefler said.. what happened!! long story short! she made them believe that there was a hobo in the church looking around and he might have stolen the pants and watch...
Elder Stuart was like.. well it looks like I am going to sit in district meeting in my shorts!
Sestra Lefler and Haris ( Yes our 1st counselor was a huge part of this!!) started laugh and told them what they did and where there stuff was.

The elders decided to get back!! But before that they did the ice-bucket-challenge! With Haris! See picture of wet people! :P

Later the elders, because they knew my companion is legitimately scared for clowns, they sended her a few creepy pictures of clowns! She could not sleep! Thanks guy! -_-'
She later told them what happened.. and is totally planning on getting back to them.. And I will share that later, after execution! ;)

Later this week my companion thought it would be nice to lock herself up in the Rožajac bathroom and walk into nettle.. that was not wise.. But slightly funny!

During sign ups for English and German, we where alone in the church for a while, because the elders went to play volleyball with investigators, at the end of sign-ups there was this creep, Blažo. He was die-hard flirting with my companion and wanted her to learn more about the church. he actually wrote on the application-form his address.. He was a total creep.. and actually turned around and came back, so we decided to close up everything and I was texting the elders, calling was of no use, because they where playing vollyball. After they read it they called us and came asap!

That was kind of my week!

(sorry I have no time to translate all of this! But I love you all!!)

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Shaila Mahabier