Visit to the B family

Yesterday Liz was feeling under the weather, and we had an appointment to meet a family who live about 40 minutes away.  So I left her sleeping and went with the young elders.  The B family are a man and wife who don't speak a word of Engliski, while you probably know how much Croatian I speak.  So the elders translated.  Brother B., it turns out was born the same year I was.  They are long-time members who were sealed in the Frankfurt temple in the 90's.  Even though we couldn't talk to each other, Bro. B. and I hit it off very well and I can't wait to go see him again.  His wife was a beautiful woman who now has no teeth, and is still a beautiful person.  Unfortunately she recently had knee surgery, so she couldn't get around much. 
  They live in a modest home in a little farming village where all the houses are along the road. except for a very few.  We drove through many of these villages along the way.  It is north of where we live and there are a fair number of Eastern Orthodox churches, to only a few Roman Catholic, which is not surprising so close to Serbia.
Here is a photo of the Eastern Orthodox church in their village.

It looks like it is pretty new.  I wonder if the E.O. church is throwing money into buildings in these little  places to cement their claim to the area.   I thought of this because there is another of these little churches just a few miles along the road that is under construction, and it looks like the same plan - rounded at one end with the door at the other.  Here is another one:

Sorry about the poor framing - the car was moving as I took it.
  And then there was this one.

This is actually two churches with a house between.  The one behind attracted my gaze because of the gold lettering around the onion dome, but it is the same size (or maybe a bit larger, and with a clock) and shape as the others.  It is clearly older.  The church in front looks to be a very small version, but brand, shiny new.  What's up with that??  Maybe all three are connected and the small building is the third addition to the old church?  Anyway, they are pretty buildings.

Yesterday evening I left Liz behind again and went to the English language class at our church.  The young elders taught a lesson in basic English, while I took the more advanced students into another room for a Conversation class in English.  The lesson plan suggested starting out playing "two truths and a lie".  That was a flop.  These people don't lie and it embarassed them to do it in a game, so much that it was too easy.  After that we read a little story that used all their vocabulary words, and then we just talked about it.  It was fun!  I'd use a word they didn't recognize, so I'd try to explain and pantomime until one of them got it.  Then they'd all chatter in Croatian until they reached consensus and go back to English again.  It was very friendly and happy.  We are gong to hold this class every week.

Liz is feeling much better this morning. 
One of my duties as an auditor is to teach all branch presidents and branch clerks and assistant branch clerks about being responsible with finances and record keeping.  There is a set presentation to use.  We have eight junior missionaries who are newly called as branch clerks or assistants, and one new branch president.  They are all over the mission, so I set up a Zoom conference call.  We use the Zoom app a lot in this mission because we ARE so spread out.  The material is pretty boring stuff to present, but Liz and I switched off and tried to make it a little entertaining.  We'll be auditing them in a few months, so I hope they took notes.