CULTURE SHOCKS:
1. Albanians ALWAYS cover their couches with blankets. I am honestly still confused why... but they never sit on the couch itself but on the blanket covering they place on them. It is also funny because the blanket that covers the couch ranges from gucci to 101 dalmatian blankets.
2. Buke= bread and buke is the main course of every meal. If you don't have bread with your meal it is almost offensive. THEY LIVE OFF OF BREAD.
3. Everything is small here. The people are small, the roads are small, the cars are small, the food is small, the houses are small. It is so cute and tiny I love it.
GIGGLES:
1. We had a meeting to go to one night this week tonight and we just had the funniest experience! We tried to get on this bus to get there and it was hilarious because it took us on the complete other side of the city and it never stopped! They wouldn't let us get off! We ended up getting to our meeting over 45 minutes late! Haha whoops. Also, to make things better, as we were walking/running to our meeting the weirdest thing happened! This guy was riding his bike and started aiming at me!! I tried to move out of the way but he was deliberately trying to hit me I was so confused. Well I thought I was out of range when all of the sudden HE JUST HIT ME WITH HIS BIKE. He hit me so hard actually!!! Like I was riding on the front tire of his bike for a good few seconds. It actually hurt HAHAH. I am still shocked about that whole experience but it made for a good story hehe:)
2. I think I have already mentioned that we have a cat problem in our companionship. Sister Long is VERY allergic hahaha. Well we went to have a lesson at our friend's house and the entire time she was sneezing and coughing and dying because of their cats but she didn't want to leave! We thought it wouldn't be so bad and that maybe once we got outside it would get better! Haha well as we left she started coughing and then she just fell down a whole flight of those concrete stairs!!! It was one of those moments that was so bad and I was trying so hard not to laugh but I couldn't help it hahaha it was so funny. She started laughing pretty hard too and is completely fine but oh man that was so funny. Note to self: CATS ARE KILLER.
3. So the past 3 nights we have had people over at our apartment so that they could fix our walls from the earthquake damage! Well every time we came home everything in our house was reorganized it was seriously hilarious. Our landlord remade our beds, reorganized everything in our bathrooms, moved the couches, took out the trash, reorganized the furniture, and everything!! Hahaha to make it even better each day it would be organized in a completely different way when we got home! Hahah it was so funny. I have no idea why he did that! It was also funny because we made our beds the exact same way he made them JUST so that he wouldn't touch our beds the next day but he still remade them AND remade them in a different way! HAHA IT WAS AWESOME. He also took down all of our Christmas decorations we had hanging everywhere and when he came to give us our key back his only piece of advice for our apartment was that we shouldn't use Christmas things when it isn't Christmas HAHAH thank you Enver. He is awesome.
THE SPIRITUAL GOODS:
As we finish our second week of the new year I want you to think about your priorities!! WHO ARE YOU?? What things do you love about you??? Think about the plan that our Heavenly Father has for you individually! There are lots of decisions we have to make but our Heavenly Father knows us better than we know ourselves. He only wants the best for us and his plan is better than we could ever imagine. When we have our priorities set and grounded things always work out. This week we were contacting (walking around and talking to people in the road) and for some reason everybody was so rude!! Hahaha we got sad for a moment until we realized that God is in control. He knows how to help us! We decided to take a step back and say a prayer and ask for directions. We were inspired to remember that all things work together for them that love God. As we worked diligently, prayed, and stayed believing we found an answer to our prayers and were led where we needed to go. Sometimes while we are in the craziness of life we get confused, lost, and hurt. However, we know that if we will but trust God, we can find happiness in every moment. IT ALWAYS WORKS OUT. Like the scripture D&C 90:24 says, "Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another." I love my Savior, I love you all, I love my mission!! STAY HAPPY,.DO SOME COOL DANCE MOVES, and SAY YOUR PRAYERS. Have an amazing week <3
Love, Motra Sëtën
Adriatic South Mission
pics: Kombinat GROUP, my cute comp and I waiting for the bus, PRETTY RUN, yummy cotton candy, MY BEST FRIEND PAJA LEAVES ON HIS MISSION TO BRAZIL HE IS THE FIRST ALBANIAN TO GO THERE, cute soccer friends
P.O. Box 2984
Bulevardi Gjergj Fishta
Qendra ALPAS
Shkalla NR. 5 Apartamenti NR.14
Tirana, Albania
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