Super Saturday part one...

Saturday morning we got up and prepared to head to the church for breakfast. Andrija was outside and we got a chance to chat with him for a few minutes and say goodbye since he'd be long asleep before we returned to hit the hay ourselves. I'm so glad that Tony was there to interpret for us. Trying to communicate with Andrija speaking a combination of Croatian and German gets a little bit frustrating sometimes since one of us may only understand every 7th word or so. He's such a sweetheart and I cannot imagine him being the mean man that Marica described him to be before Christ. He seems to be in good spirits and content these days which is a real blessing since Tony said he cried for months and months after Marica went home to Jesus last Winter.

After breakfast at the church we had the most spirit filled time of worship and prayer of the entire week! The Holy Spirit flowed through to Tony's fingertips to his guitar as he played throughout our prayer. Several people prayed and Veronika and Pastor Bernard let the Spirit use their voices in song and it was an AWESOME experience. We all knew that the Spirit was there to intercede for us and to usher us into Worship that morning.

We headed over to Novi Most (New Bridge) after this to see what goes on there on Saturday mornings. Since it was pouring rain outside they had to play indoor games and not too many kids were there. Jill and I had fun playing Jenga and Uno Spin with the girls and we all enjoyed chatting with the kids, Eleanor, Becca and Ivica. From Novi Most we went back to the church and met up with the evening's speaker and her companions who had driven from Split, Croatia and chatted with them for a bit before a pizza lunch arrived. Did you know that they put ketchup and mayonnaise on pizza in the former Yugoslav countries? Strange but true fact! when we'd eaten we had the ladies follow us to the house so they could rest before the big event and then we headed to Ljerka & Tiho's place.

I had known that Ljerka was related to Marica but didn't realize she was her niece and almost as close as a daughter to her. She served us the most wonderful dessert and prepared coffee for us. Deb, Jamie and B.J. had Turkish Coffee and Ljerka prepared the coffee and heated the milk just like Marica used to do which caused Deb to tear up. She told us the story of Marica's home going and it was so good to hear that all of Andrija & Marica's children were able to come home to say goodbye and that their daughter B had reconciled with M before she passed. This was really great news to all of us. We had a really blessed time with Tiho and Ljerka and it was an honor to pray with and for them.