Last monday
1. our member dinner cancelled
2. Antonetta at a local cafe was busy
3. we thought of going to another family's house by makinë [car] so we went to their building but they weren't home
4. so we started tracting in their building
...and this cute little nëna [mom] comes to the door and I didn't understand much but come in and have a drink. And then we were going inside. There were two granddaughters there. We sat down and the nëna just started feeding us. And we started a simple lesson about the Book of Mormon, prayer (and then one more granddaughter and her mom came in), and then we talked about baptism. I don't know why but I was having trouble saying the baptismal invitation "will you..." and they literally were like "oh get baptized? ya"...I was like wait what did you just say?? It was super cool. And then of course they sent us home with like bags of food haha we basically had dinner there. When we think that everything is falling through and the day is going downhill, just wait. Wait for that light. It seemed like we were having an awful day but in reality all of those seemingly "bummer" things had to happen for us to be there at the right time to meet these people. Dora e Zotit [Hand of God].
Durres saying: Afër detit, afer qiellit (close to the sea, close to heaven)
Also another saying Elder Xhonej always says to us as a good night thing we found out literally means "stay up all night fat" idk...gdhifshit shëndosh. charming
Some kind of cultural dancing festival happened this week. I have a couple pictures but they aren't very good sorry. But it was really cool to see something that was really Albanian. And there was a cute little catchy song on like "një dy tre...something something...re" so if you can find it haha thats it.
Food of the week:
Man our mission is a rough one. This week two different shops gave us free stuff. We got free ice cream and free chocolates. I love these people haha.
Actually this one lady gave us k picture it: looks like a jar of pickles but its purple. It is eggplant...The consistency of an almost jelly thing soaked soaked in some really sugary thing...ya it was a little bigger than I would have liked it to be :) mmm...
Goal for my mission: bring so many people to church that they are forced to build a temple here. Me zi po pres. [I can't wait!] We really take for granted that we have so many temples so close. Hmm which temple should we get married in? These people have to go to Switzerland. It is amazing that they go. Families are so important to us and it is so amazing that we can be together forever, and to see that these members sacrificed so much to go be sealed in the temple is so beautiful. They realize the importance.
Cultural Festival
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