Sister Becca Haggard: Good thing someone else is in charge of this work July 3, 2017

Albanian expression of the week:

Ha. Merr. Ik. Amerik. (eat. take. leave. america) get it?

Summer:

I have seen way too many xhaxhi's (old men) without shirts on. just chilling. cool. alright.

Speaking of xhaxhi's, one totally recited poetry to us, memorized and in english. he was actually pretty good. impressive. and then he told us we were stars of the earth. then he kissed our hands. aww

I tried a fig for the first time. weird monster looking fruit but hey not that bad.

This week, especially Sunday was full of miracles. Of course every day we can see miracles doing this work, but it's an extra special blessing when you don't have to think very hard because they are too many miracles to remember! So basically yesterday every meeting we had with people cancelled...and because of that we met people "randomly" in the street.

1. we were supposed to meet a girl from Shkodër who came to Tirana and didn't know where the church was. She didnt come. So we ran into a member on the way to church. And we ran into a lady, Merita, that we had called the night before and had set up a meeting for later that day. We asked her if she wanted to come to church with us-She came! (what?!)

2. When we were in church, another lady, Katrina, walked in that we had invited to church. (let me just add-when people come to church- yes, it is a miracle)

3. Then we still were going to meet Merita, that came to church with us but she ended up being at work so didn't show up. So instead, this other lady, Rumie, that had met Sister Ollsen before but they had never been able to set up a lesson with her, came and was like hey come to my house...oh ok yes ok. what?!

4. Then after that lesson we were able to go to the house of Merita and her family. Perfect timing because family members just kept coming in.

What an awful day right? haha wow so cool. It's great to be able to see days that just kind of "fall into place".

Hey even when we may think that everything is ruined, just wait for everything to just fall into place. maybe not the place we thought they would be but end up being so much better. Good thing someone else is in charge of this work and not me :)

Have a great week!

Motra Hegërd