What is cookin good lookins??? It's been another week wow how crazy!!! This week was soooo rockin here in Kosovo. WE SAW SO MANY MIRACLES!!!! We also met the coolest people!!!! We spent lots of fun days outside at the park and in nature and we also went to Gjakova (the only other city with missionaries in Kosovo) for yw and it was so fun!! I think my love for this place and these people grew about 17X bigger.
Culture shocksssss:
1. So one funny thing that people do here is that like everybody holds arms/hands, even the boys. It is just like culture to hold hands or arms with the person you're with as like a protection thing or something I don't even know. But it is pretty funny to see boys just holding onto each other when they are straight lol. Another thing is that for some reason if you're a twin here you have to match clothing. We have seen a couple pairs of twins and they are always decked out in the same exact outfits.
2. Because the driving here is absolutely ridiculous (non-existent) they park on all of the sidewalks. Basically, you never know if you're about to get hit or if someone is just parking.
3. They believe that if you are darker skinned that you're a gypsy... they're actually pretty racist here. All the darker people are usually more poor too it is so sad. They also drive these weird tractor like things instead of cars and they have chainsaws on the back. Dope.
Knee Slappers:
1. There is a member here named who is the COOLEST PERSON EVER. Her family is really cool but she is afraid to tell them she is baptized because she doesn't want them to be disappointed. However, her sister totally knows that she is baptized and covers for her all the time when her parents question her about religion (hahah because she is literally at the church every single day but she claims that she "just directs the music for us"). Anyways, her grandma is this DEVOUT Muslim woman (who doesn't know she's baptized) and this week she was asking her if she was excited to fast for Ramadan this month and she was like, " Yeah totally grandma I love fasting!" and then she goes on about how much she loves Ramadan and then her sister comes up behind her and whispers... "I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen" it was so freaking funny oh my goodness. Her sister is super awesome.
2. So this week our apartment was getting kind of dusty and gross so I thought it would a great idea if we tried to vacuum a little bit. Note to self: ALBANIAN/KOSOVAR vacuums do not work!!!! Hahah so the air pressure was like horrible so I started inspecting the machine when all the sudden dark clouds of black smoke starting puffing from the dang thing starting a fire in our house HAHAH.
3. We went for a fun walk at the park with some investigators because they had a day off of work/school and literally EVERY single group of people had a soccer ball. There were like hundreds of people everyone had a soccer ball it was pretty funny. Not only that, but they have these claw machines all over but they only have soccer balls in them that is like so funny to me I don't know why.
MIRACLES:
1. This week we met with our cute investigator Teuta EXPLODED spiritually. SHE IS SO PREPARED. Seriously, she is a rockstar. She wanted to learn as much as possible about us because she has never felt so loved from people before. She comes from this rotten background of extreme abuse and violence from her family, death of loved ones, bullying, etc. etc. However, she decided that she wanted to have a priesthood blessing and it was one of the most spiritual experiences ever. Everything the Lord had prepared for her was just exactly what she needed it was a miracle. I have so much faith in priesthood blessings. Also she was so stinking funny this week because she found Elder Murray's quad of scriptures full of marked stuff and she put them in her backpack and was gonna take them for the weekend HAHA. Then Elder Murray was looking for his scriptures everywhere and couldn't find them so she returned them and he said, "Where did you find them?" and she goes, "umm in my backpack. hah I wanted to read all your favorite scriptures," It was sooo funny and so cute awhhh. He let her keep them for the weekend and she is LOVING reading everything he has marked.
2. We also had a lesson with her yesterday and she went on to explain that she never wanted to meet with the missionaries and that in the beginning she had no idea why she said yes. In fact, if I never talked to her at church my first week she wouldn't be here today. When we decided to meet she completely changed her mind and after 3 weeks she now has decided to get baptized :) Her life has been so hard and she has been through a rollercoaster of beliefs from believing everything in her old religion to nothing to finally having hope again. She has noticed that change, and knows that it is completely 100 percent the spirit and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
3. Continuing this miracle story, her story has inspired Elsa who wants more than anything to get baptized (she is still waiting on parental permission). It is the sweetest thing in the world to see these two girls work together and see their testimonies grow. Through all their struggles and hardships they strengthening each other so much. THIS GOSPEL IS SOOOO TRUE.
LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!
Love, Motra Sëtën
Adriatic South Mission
P.O. Box 2984
Bulevardi Gjergj Fishta
Qendra ALPAS
Shkalla NR. 5 Apartamenti NR.14
Tirana, Albania
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