Heyyoooo it has been one heck of a week here for me!!! I
appreciated all the wonderful birthday emails and messages I have received!!! I
am beyond spoiled to have such amazing people in my life!!!!! Thank you for
existing and making me so happy!!!!
THIS WEEK'S CULTURE SHOCKS:
1. Albanians/ Kosovars are such gift givers!!!! They are so
kind. For my bday this week I got so many gifts from people I hardly even know!
They are so sweet wow :')
2. They also LOVE BDAYS. They get super excited and want to party
lots. They also make sure that EVERY SINGLE PERSON knows it is their bday it is
so cute. I love getting messages that say, "Good Morning, it is my
birthday." There is no such thing as a secret bday here.
3. There are no jobs here. Everyone struggles to find work..
especially work that pays well. There are a lot of homeless people and beggars
in the street and it makes my heart hurt so bad :(( BUT WE MADE A PLAN. We
bought tons of little foods like nuts and bars and granolar stuff and we made
cute little bags to give them!!! Have to work with what we've got yanno.
FOR THE LAUGHS:
1. Sooo this week we were feeling quite festive. It is
October and we wanted some good punkin' and halloween themed things in our
lives. So one day we were walking and decided to stop at this restaurant that
was serving PUMPKIN FLAVORED FOODS YUM. So we stopped in and got some lunch.
Hahahah we learned a few things that day. 1) American flavored pumpkin things
are NOT the same as in Kosovo. We had a chicken breast with pumpkin puree
around it lol, pumpkin soup (SO BAD), and pumpkin pilaf (rice thing). Mhmm it
was interesting. 2) I AM ALLERGIC TO PUMPKIN HAHA. Well, at least we think. My
tongue swoll up and I got hives all over my arms and face so that was
good.
2. We invited a dear friend to come to church this week and
he came! He is awesome. He sat right in front of me. As we were singing the
hymns I looked up and noticed a big spider crawling on the collar of his shirt.
I was going to say something until it crawled back into his shirt. I couldn't
grasp myself to tell him plus I was kinda freaking out inside. Anyways, so we
keep singing and I look at his hair and suddenly see 3 other big spiders
dangling from webs attached to his hair. At this point my jaw had just dropped
and I didn't even know if I should tell him or not. I watched the 3 spiders
crawl up their webs into his hair where there were another group of spiders.
And that is where I tapped out. Ahhhhh IT SO SCARY I AM NOT KIDDING.
3. We were walkin along the road and stopped at this little
outdoor market when we came across this cute old man who was interested in the
Book of Mormon! He invited us inside his house (above his market) to meet his
wife and family! Suddenly, we were bombarded with gifts and slippers and food
of every kind! They took off our shoes for us and they made the couches all
nice and they started treating us like absolute PRINCESSES!!! HAHAHA. So at
this point we had only met the sister and the mom. Then the dad came in with
his 3 sons and looks at us and says, " Okay you beautiful American ladies.
Pick one" and then he went on and started telling us how amazing each one
of them were and how they could take care of us and our future families. It was
pretty dang hilarious. Little did we know we had just walked into our very own
proposals.
THE GOOD SPIRITUAL STUFF:
This week Sister Bringhurst and I learned so much. It is
sometimes hard to find people here to teach because of the Islamic culture
difference. There were many times this week where we defended Jesus Christ in a
way that I have never quite done before. Often times when we talk to people
they will make fun or say horrible things about us, Christians, and Jesus
Christ. One of the biggest things for Muslims is that they do not believe that
Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. They believe that he was born and was
a prophet, but that he was not the Son of God. This is hard sometimes because
when we are out finding people to teach we love to talk about Christ. We
rejoice in Christ!! This often times leads to immediate rejection. However, we
made good plans this week to get people to READ the Book of Mormon and find out
for themselves the truth!! Christ is in EVERYTHING. He is our ALL. The Book of
Mormon is coated with verses of scriptures that all reference to the Savior.
Not to mention, that when YOU read the Book of Mormon YOU can receive that
spiritual witness that it is the most correct of any book among the face of
this earth. As we have testified of Jesus Christ MORE THAN EVER in our work
this week we have seen miracles. We have seen both the Book of Mormon and Jesus
Christ CHANGE these people into their best selves. Christ lives. He loves us
very much. As we testify of Him and follow him we will have UNLIMITED
happiness. I LOVE MY SAVIOR.
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE AND
PRAYERS.
Love,
Motra Sëtën
Adriatic
South Mission
P.O.
Box 2984
Bulevardi
Gjergj Fishta
Qendra
ALPAS
Shkalla
NR. 5 Apartamenti NR.14
Tirana,
Albania
Pics: cute lil road, you are not here, cutie best friends,
my cute comp!!!!!!!!
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