This week was great! We had interviews with President which are always super awesome! I just really love being able to spend a little bit of personal time with him! He always makes me feel so happy and excited to be doing this work and always gives me suggestions of things I can do better! He also loved our house and Lezhe in general!
We had a pretty awesome week of work! We have continued to meet with G. and he came to church again on Sunday with us and K.! It was pretty cool all of us going up together! We had a lesson this week with both of them for the first time and they got along really well! K. is such a friendly guy, he is a great member to have here to give us a start! If everything works out G. will be getting baptized on Saturday which is going to be super awesome!! G. also has brought this friend a couple times named Gj who is pretty cool. He has lived out in Germany for a while and is actually kinda atheist and really just comes because he likes us and G. tells him to but I feel like we are planting a seed inside of him. He is really cool and I hope one day he reads the Book of Mormon!
We also have a super awesome investigator named Z., he is the one that accepted the baptismal date in the middle of our heated argument! He is doing really well and is now working on leaving alcohol and coffee so that he can get baptized! Sadly he wasn't able to come to church on Sunday because of work but he promised us next Sunday!
It's interesting here in Lezhe because it's by far the smallest city I've served in and so we see a lot of the same people over and over and over and over again! There is this culture in Albania, especially for older men, but really just everyone where if they have nothing to do all they do is take walks around the city, like alllll day! And so we see all these people just pass back and forth over and over again! It's funny how different their reactions are to us, like some people are super friendly and say hi and smile at us every time while other people will pretty much cuss at us every time they pass! There are also a ton of crazy people here in Lezhe just like every other city in this mission and it's exciting being in a new city and not having other missionaries who can tell you who the crazy people! :)
Sunday was a super big day! First of all we now have a senior couple named the Collins here in Shkoder! They are from orange county California and are super awesome! So Elder Collins will be the branch president! So that was a big deal obviously because for the first time in over a year Shkoder now has a solid real branch president! Then there was this investigator the other Elders brought who ended up totally taking over the lesson in 2nd hour and it was awful! He started talking about all this crazy stuff!! Then it just turned into all the members just specifically talking to him and what he needs to do and it was horrible! What was actually super cool from it was how well K. handled everything! He is the oldest (member wise) person in the branch and he was so loving to the kid and was trying to get everyone else to stop just talking to him and get back on the lesson theme! It was really cool. I talked to him about how he should maybe still go to Tirana until he gets released from his calling and he said he really feels the spirit that Shkoder needs his help more and that Tirana can run without him! I was like dang he has all his church friends in Tirana but is coming to Shkoder because he knows that the church needs him here! I don't know if I would have done that back in America!
Also another super crazy thing that happened at church that we didn't know was happening is 3 of the members got interviewed for the Melchizedek priesthood! So basically we are going to go from 0 Melchizedek priesthood holders to 4 in a few weeks! (those 3 plus K.) So much power is moving into this branch right now!
This week I decided to ask President if I would be allowed to Skype B. in prishtina so that I could talk to him and check in, and he said I could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy I can't even tell you!!!!!!!!!!! I talked to him for a long time today - it was awesome! I miss that kid a ton but he's doing awesome! Still wants to serve a mission!
Anyway pretty crazy week but everything worked out! Pray for my boy G. that he can get baptized this week!
Loves!!!
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| Lezhe Library |
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| Cool old Catholic Church in Lezhe |
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