We left off at Ljerka and Tiho's home where we had gone to talk with them and pray with and for the two of them as a couple and for their teenaged children 14 year old Ivan and 12 year old Marija. When we left their home we went to the church to help Nada and Veronika finish up preparing for the women's gathering taking place that evening and then headed "home" to Andrija's to freshen up and change into more presentable clothing for the women's meeting.
This meeting was no small thing. Nada had spent many months preparing for the event and all her hard work was about to pay off! Vikica, the pastor's wife from the Evangelical Church in Split, Croatia had been invited to come speak on The Five Love Languages. The women of the church had been talking up the meeting with their friends and co-workers and many baked fabulous desserts to serve at the meeting. Veronika had been practicing a new song that she planned to sing that evening. Tables were laid out with candles and vases and red tulle scrunched just so. The women began to arrive and many of the women from our "mom's night out" jewelry party came and quite a few church members brought friends and co-workers so the place was packed!
Since there was no interpreter and I don't yet speak or understand Croatian very well I didn't know much of what was spoken but found out later that one woman said that she and her husband had been headed for divorce but that she saw that she was at fault and realized she had not been speaking the correct love language to him. She said this meeting probably saved her marriage! Vikica and her companions said if their coming was just for that one lady it was worth it. God is so AWESOME!
After the meeting we headed out to dinner and I got my last taste of sopska salat for a while then we headed to the house to grab a couple hours sleep since we needed to leave for the airport at 4:00 AM. Yes, an ungodly hour for sure but I would not have wanted to miss the evening's events for all the sleep in the world.
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