I made the team!!

So this past week I found out that I made the team here in Kamnik!! My tryouts were for about a week and a half, and I finally found out that I made it and I am so excited! I absolutely love it here and they treat me so well, and so I am excited to spend the next 7 months here! The girls have been very nice to invite me out to do things with them. Last Saturday we were able to go to the main city, Ljubljana, and it was a lot of fun! They took me and we had pizza for lunch and then they took me to another little place for dessert. I thought that most Europeans just like ice cream, gelato, but the Slovenes actually like cakes/pies, and so they took me to a dessert place and we all had cakes! They were delicious! I was not able to translate everything to the waiter, and so I told him that I love chocolate and so he said that he would bring me his favorite chocolate dish, and it was amazing!

Right now we are still in pre-season and we have started playing games to get us ready for the League to start. We beat an American team who came two weeks ago and then we beat another team, who is in the top division here, so I was pretty excited! My team has a lot of really good girls and it is very fun to play with them!

I have started to learn some of the language also, which makes it easier when my coach is yelling at me, so that I know what he is saying!

So, Ciao!

Ljubljana

Sunday I was able to go to the cute branch in Ljubljana and go to church there.  It was amazing to see the members and the strength that they had, they are truly pioneers in Slovenia!  The chapel that we went to church in is the only chapel in Slovenia, the rest of the branches just meet in members homes.  One of the families in my branch were the first members of the church in Slovenia and so it is pretty amazing to see how far the church has come in Slovenia!  The members were so kind and welcoming to me and it truly felt like a home away from home.  Right when I entered the church, I felt that I was with family.  The Senior Sister Missionaries and the Sister and Elder Missionaries serving in the ward were so kind and helped me get to where I needed to go.  The ward is in Slovenian, but they have headsets for all of the English speakers.  After church the sisters invited me to go to lunch with them at their home, and so hopefully if it works, I will show you some pictures from after church and then from Kamnik where I am staying.  

Ciao!

Hello Slovenia!

I finally made it to Kamnik, Slovenia after a long day of traveling.  It is absolutely gorgeous here!  Kamnik is a little city outside of the capitol Ljubljana.  (Don't ask me how to say that because I have asked about 5 people and I haven't got it right yet.)  I met my coaches right when I got here and they are very kind.  My head coach does not know English, which could actually be a good thing because I won't be able to know what he is saying if he is yelling at me.  I was thinking that I would have the day off and get to know the city of Kamnik better, but the coach told me that we have a 4 hour practice tonight!!!  Oh wow!  So I guess there is no complaining about jet lag, it is time to get down to business!  Wish me luck!:)