The Chronicles of Bosnia 2025/2026

My favorite day of the week is Sunday. I love going to Church but what makes Sundays even more special is seeing and talking with some of my favorite people .        My nephew James was visiting Nathan so he jumped in the photo.  Nathan was in New York last week and this was the view from his room.                                                                A couple of weekends ago, we were in Zadar for a beautiful wedding. The bride is the youngest daughter of our longtime friends, Mišo and Ankisa Ostarcevic. Charles first met them way back in 1979 when he was a missionary in Yugoslavia, we’ve been close friends ever since.                            .      When we found out their daughter Ema was getting ma...

After three months here, we finally took a weekend trip to Zadar, Croatia , for the 30th anniversary memorial of Krešimir Čosić .  The entire Old Town participated in celebrating this Croatian legend. For those unfamiliar, Krešimir was one of Europe’s greatest basketball players. The first European star at BYU , an Olympic Gold and Silver medalist , an NCAA All-American , and later Croatia’s ambassador to the U.S. during the Balkan War. A man of great faith, he turned down an LA Lakers contract to return to Yugoslavia  to share the Gospel. We attended a "Legend of Krešo Tribute Concert" outside the Sveti Donat. A musical retelling of his life. Our friends, the Ostarčević family (Mišo played basketball with Krešo), gifted us VIP tickets. We sat in the second row, right behind Krešo’s family and later learned we appeared on the TV broadcast... Can you see us? If we look little it is because we are amongs all the basketball players It was a beautiful evening , and the ven...