So missionaries have a rule that when we back up we need one of us to back us up. So one of my companions was backing me up and ya know normal k good and then she was like motioning to drive more right...but I was like no I see the fence like I'm fine. no apparently there was a thing on the ground that she didn't want me to run over with the tires. oh. It was just like a bar thing so no big deal but if I'm a missionary that means I'm going to turn everything into a lesson so--listen to your guides, they aren't guiding you somewhere just for fun, they can see more than you can.
Members are kind of still investigators sometimes.
Vlora is a member that comes to everything. Every activity. But she will not read the scriptures when we are at her house. Always has an excuse for why not until this week when we went and really asked her why she doesn't want to read. She opened up about problems and that sometimes she can't concentrate very well so can't read. Ok. So we asked if she could read 3 verses with us. For the first time in a lesson with her, she read the scriptures. 1 Nefi 21:14-16 My favorite scripture. We are not forgotten. We are not alone. We need to read the Book of Mormon so that we remember that. Then she said the closing prayer and she said afterwards that when she closed her eyes, she actually had a peaceful darkness that hasn't happened when she says prayers before. Because we were able to read those few verses with her, the Spirit was in the lesson, we actually felt peace (something very hard to find at their house sometimes), so she was able to actually say a heartfelt prayer and feel the Spirit.
General Conference! Definitely a better experience understanding the talks this time in comparison to 2nd week in Albania having conference last Oct. One talk though was so fast I didn't know if they were talking about a peshk or a peshkop. A fish or a bishop...kind of an important difference. hey turns out it was a bishop. makes sense. Probably my favorite quote from conference "Mos u shqetëso. Jemi një familje e përjetshme" Don't worry. We are an eternal family. How simple and how sweet, but really they can take a lot of things from me but HA can't take away my family because we are sealed together and we will be together forever. I wish that people understood what that actually means. People often just agree like ya of course, but don't realize that their religion doesn't actually believe in that.
"We believe that marriage and family ties can continue beyond the grave—that marriages performed by those who have the proper authority in His temples will continue to be valid in the world to come. Our marriage ceremonies eliminate the words “till death do us part” and instead say, “for time and for all eternity.”
Igbali brought her sister and her nieces to conference sunday morning because they were staying at her house. Ah she's such an angel investigator. and she said that of course she will bring all her guests to church if she has them.
Sister's Conference and Motra Willey, my lovely trainer, gave her dying testimony. She leaves in one week. SCARY. Can't wait to get her engagement announcement :)
Oh, and I broke a chair.
can you find the gabim [mistake]? officially kosovo legal!
first pair of shoes to go
sisters conference
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