So today was a really a big day for us because we got a parking permit for our car and now we can park any where we want in Zagreb and we will never get a ticket or get towed away! We feel like we are royalty or something. Any of you who have lived in Europe know what a pain parking is over here and how expensive it can be. We have been parking in a parking garage below the train station and mall every day, which cost us up to twelve dollars a day. This parking permit cost us 3600 Kuna, which is $600 for six months, so that works out to be $100 a month, which is half as much as it is to park on the street without a parking permit. Buying a permit in the long run will save us money. They have a cool way of paying for parking on the streets here in Europe, you can text your licence plate number to the city zone number you are parking in and your parking is charged to your phone, it is expensive to do that but convenient.
So, I guess you could say we are progressing up in the world because we now have a parking permit and we didn't even have to wait a super long time and we had all the right paper work the first time we went there.
Richard has his VISA and got it in record time compared to the rest of us. Most of the missionaries take up to 6 months after they get here before they actually get their visas, but Richard got his in a about one month. I still don't have mine, because when we went in for our interviews we had different people interview us. It will be interesting to see when I get mine. The process the government requires for just about everything makes no sense to any of us, but if we don't do what they say and give them what they require us to give them we will not get our visas and visas are kind of a big deal to have. Each time missionaries move from city to city we have to deregister the missionary and they register them in the new city, there was a lot of that going on today with transfers today.
So, in the USA when everyone makes a big deal about people having to show their IDs if they get stopped, well guess what we have to show our Passports everywhere we go, the countries keep track of you that way, so they always know what we are doing and where we are and you know what we don't even care!
The two sisters that came from the Mission Training Center in Provo yesterday were only about 9 hours late and without their luggage . Every single missionary who has flown through Paris in our mission had very bad experiences in Paris' airport. The Paris airport always has very long delays and is very unorganized. Not one missionary who has flown through Paris has gotten here when they were suppose to get here. The sister's luggage finally got here tonight, so tomorrow morning we are picking up one of the sister's luggage and driving it to her up in Slovenia. We are happy we get to do that for her, my favorite part of our mission is doing things for others that they can't do for themselves. There are so many simple little things like this in a mission that need to be done to keep things going. We feel blessed when we are asked to help out in any way we can.
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