Do you have any adderall?

Wowzers another week in the mission life is done and gone!!! Oof time goes too fast. I hope you are all nothin but smiles out there. Work is good here. We are teaching the most amazing people and families! Things move slowly here sometimes because we are ALL ABOUT THE BASICS. Which is awesome!!!!!! Miracles are surrounding us. Although the evils and corruptness of Kosovo sometimes makes work hard, GOOD IS EXPLODING.

CULTUREEEE: 

1. All these people have these graveyards outside of their houses filled with tons of graves. They are the graves of all their ancestors. Kinda cool but also kinda creepy hahahah. I can't imagine having auntie sue burried in my front yard next to my garden gnomes.

2. Another culture thing is that family is very important here. So important that they often live with their brothers, sisters, moms, dads, grandmas and everyone forever basically. They never really move out. 

3. Weddings are MASSIVE here. Everyone gets dolled up for the festivities and they party literally ALL NIGHT LONG. When they leave one party venue to go to another they pile 30 people into their tiny cars and then they hangout the windows waving handkerchiefs and they don't stop honking their horns it is so funny. 

KNEE SLAPPERS: 

1. Okay so I got this weird bump on my hand that hurts and it won't go away haha so I asked some of our friends (idk why) and all the sudden all the Albanians turned into my very own personal doctors!!!!! They are very concerned about me ;). I have heard the range if diagnostics from a scratch, bug bite, infection, broken wrist, cyst, and my favorite, a broken vein that needs to be taken out HAHA. 

2. The futbol season started for Kosovo's team here. Game days are SOOO AWESOME. EVERYONE dresses in their jerseys and heads to the nearest coffee shop and they cheer and scream and go wilddddd it is sooo fun!!!! 

3. Hahahahaa okay so the elders brought a super nice friend of theirs to church and afterwards we started having this awesome conversation about the gospel when he looks at me and says, " Can I ask you a question that may seem a little unorthodox??" So I said, "Uhhh.. sure" and then he's like, " Do you any adderall?" Lololol. I can't tell you how many times I have been asked that during church.  #onlyinkosovo

A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT:

Lately, I have been thinking a lot of about the word perfection. We know that we won't be perfect in this life and that we will always make mistakes. Sometimes it is discouraging to think that no matter what we do, we will not be perfect. I am not a perfect missionary, I am not a perfect companion, and I am not a perfect sister or daughter. However, the Lord's hope and encouragement is for us to have enough faith to know that he would no require development beyond our capacity. Take the words from our prophet Russell M. Nelson, " Conquering of weakness brings great joy. You can attain a certain degree of perfection in some things in this life. And you can become perfect in keeping various commandments. But the Lord was not necessarily asking for your error less and perfect behavior in all things. He was pleading for more than that. His hopes are for your full potential to be realized: to become as He is! " As we try to be perfect in the simple things we can become like our Savior!! You are not perfect, but you will be. Keep going! 

I LOVE YOU ALL SO STINKIN MUCH. THANKS FOR ALL THE LOVES AND SUPPORT <3 

Love, Motra Sëtën