Love learning the Albanian proverbs. This means rock rock becomes a wall; wall wall becomes a castle. So applicable haha we are feeling like rocks...because we are not that great at speaking this language but the gift of tongues is real! We will be built into castles (hopefully soon) so that we will be able to teach in this crazy language. So you know how in English we say "I hit the rocks", in Albanian you have to change the nouns according to the article before it and where it is in the sentence and how it is used in the sentence. So depending on how many rocks and if they are definite it's a totally different ending...so no, we do not use any articles like a, an, or the...wow this is going to be hard.
Probably the funniest thing this week was when I was a pretend investigator and Elderat (see not the elders but elder-at) were teaching me about the Restoration. My "husband" just died and when he tried to say that family is forever, he said death is forever hahahaha love it. We will get those language mistakes out now so that doesn't actually happen there hopefully.
We now have 4 elders going to Turkey in our zone. What crazy places our zone is going to!
Lopë e Shenjtë! [literal translation: holy cow]
Yesterday in mission conference meeting President Burgess's wife told about how her son was one of the first missionaries to go to the Albanian mission! Our whole district looked at each other like yeah!! Shqipëria (makes the eagle flag hand motion). [mom note: You can see the very common hand motion at second 14 of this video.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDl9km-nyrU
It was super cool. She said that they didn't even have the Book of Mormon translated into Albanian so they were part of that 6 year process of making it available. These faithful saints in Albania believed in a book that they couldn't even see yet, how amazing! There is a picture depicting a woman who just received a copy of Librin e Mormonit and immediately opened it and starts reading it. Look it up. It is by Winberg. I loved it because those are the people we are going to! How cool!
Also our teacher said that Albanian is one of the oldest languages in the world.
So in class one day Motra Kokol asked me to be the investigator that she would teach. I started freaking out like, "Wow, I need to be able to understand what she is saying and react like an investigator and know what to say." Well, I'm glad she did this because that was the most amazing experience. I've never quite had that perspective as being the investigator before. She was teaching me as if I had no idea God loved me and that's what she was trying to get across. It was amazing. I hope to be able to teach people that God loves them and that he listens to them this simply and beautifully.
Të dua
Motra Hagërd
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