MIREDITA EVERYONE! WHAT A WEEK!!!! This was probably one of
the most eventful weeks of my mission full of adventures, a baptism, the
military base, and of course General Conference! I hope you all had the
opportunity to watch or listen to General Conference this weekend! We are so
lucky to have living prophets and apostles in our day!!
CULTURE SHOCKS:
1. It is a cultural thing to always take your shoes off
outside the door and carry them inside when you arrive at someone's
house.
2. This week was election week! There were tons of protests
and rallies all throughout the streets and for 2 days the roads were closed!!
There were cops everywhere and the boulevard here looked like a winter
wonderland covered in paper.
3. Coffee is MAJOR here. They had a HUGE coffee and tea
festival out on the boulevard and let me tell ya it was awesome. We were like
Lehi out there preachin and teachin and makin friends it was awesome.
Hahahaha
WEIRD WHACK FUNNY STORY
1. HAHAH this week we had one of the most interesting and
hilarious days. It all started with a member asking us to help chop some wood
in his fshat (village) about 1hr 1/2 away. We drove through the mountains with
the elders and came to a beautiful place where we met our friend. We were under
the impression that we would walk to his village from the main road until we
found out that he lived over 9 km away on this sketchy dirt road. Our friend
began telling us about how much he LOVED Michael Jackson so I asked him,
"Have you ever met Michael Jackson before?" He looked at me all
serious and said, "Yes. Chicago Bulls." And then he changed the
subject. Hahahaha we might be talking about different people HAHA. So as we
were driving the road suddenly came to an end with a big sign that said KOSOVO
BOUNDARY. We got to walk into Serbia and explore a bit but we were still so
confused because we thought we were going to be chopping wood hahaha. So we
turned around and headed down a different dirt road when we came upon a tiny
school in the middle of nowhere. Our friend begged us to stop and then yelled
something outside and then tons of little kids came running at us hugging us
and touching my hair. We ended up having an awesome lesson with them and some
of the teachers who all were anxiously engaged because they had never heard the
message of the restored gospel. So then our friend told us that the only way to
get to his house was to take this massive truck up through another road that
was DESTROYED so we jumped in the truck and were on our way to chop some wood..
or so we thought. The man who was driving us was the neighbor of our friend and
invited us over to his house for us to share our message. We went inside and
had a lesson and left with the spirit tasting strong. The wife even poured us
water straight from her well how kind. After we left their house we started walking
down the dirt road when Beni, our friend, went off the path and down into the
forest. He then told us that we wouldn't be chopping wood but that we would be
sawing wood and the saw wouldn't arrive for another 1hr or so. He then asked if
we were hungry and then frantically started collecting blackberries and walnuts
and all kinds of other edible things (or so we think) and we made a lunch. He
pulled out a cake from his backpack and boom we were feasting. We got so cut up
and wrecked from those thorn bushes though I will tell ya that. BUT THE STORY
GOES ON. After lunch we headed towards Beni's house where we were stopped by
the Serbian border police and checked which was awesome. We finally made it to
Beni's house where we were then introduced to both his uncle and cousin. We
were having a lesson under their pear tree and pears kept falling and smacking
from the tree almost hitting our heads but it didn't even matter because we
just were having a beautiful lesson!! After the lesson we jumped into a different
truck and headed to a massive pile of wood and were asked to load the truck up
with the wood piles! We loaded, loaded, loaded and had such a good time. There
was this cute precious little boy who came to help and started asking me
questions about the gospel. We talked more about Christ and I gave him a Book
of Mormon. I have never seen a kid smile so big!! He promised me he would read
it and pray about it and we exchanged phone numbers. It was a miracle! By the
the time we had loaded all the wood we knew it was time for us to head home.
However, Beni told us he still had to work and wouldn't be able to drive us
back to our car. Sooo we took the long trek back walking up and down and
through the mountains of Serbia and Kosovo and through a miracle we made it to
our car. On our way out of town we stopped to grab a quite bit to eat when we
had the impression to talk to the waiter about the Book of Mormon. As we
started talking he explained that he had seen our website before but never
could figure out how to get a book! We helped him out :)) after that little
miracle we started to drive home sweaty, dirty, and exhausted when Elder
Stephan got pulled over. HAHAHAHA they wanted to give him a 1200 $ ticket and
take away his license. However, luckily they let us go free because we are
American! #miracle #perks Among the craziness of the day we saw so many
miracles. The people we met and talked to are now sharing with their friends
and family and they want to be taught. Everything was unexpected. We didn't saw
wood and nothing we had planned actually happened. But God had a plan. He
directed us where to go in the moment we needed to go there.
SPIRITUAL GOODNESS:
There was a special feeling this weekend as we participated
in the baptism of our friend Korab and listened to General Conference. We were
lucky to have been able to watch conference in English Saturday and Sunday
night! I loved the talk by Peter M. Johnson that focused on PRAYING, READING,
AND STUDYING EVERYDAY EVERYDAY EVERYDAY. And partaking of the sacrament EVERY
WEEK EVERY WEEK EVERY WEEK. Remember that by small and simple things great
things do come to pass (Alma 37:6). As we do the small thing EVERYDAY we will
see miracles and blessings and will be stronger against the adversary.
I love you all!!!! Thank you for your
prayers!!!!
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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