So pretty great week this week, it went by super fast!
To start off with, no I didn't really take any pictures in Macedonia. I know, I know, I'm a terrible person! I set it as a goal this week to take more pictures so hopefully I'll be able to act upon that. It was kinda a nightmare of a trip though. Macedonia is like super annoying to work with first of all we have so many legal problems with them and keeping missionaries there it's ridiculous. They made us buy this special temporary Macedonian insurance for 50 euro so we got there and parked in a lot and there was this sign in Macedonian with pictures and what we got out of it was we had to text our licence plate number to the phone number that was listed so we did that and went out to get food and walk around and it was awesome and we got back and...... the car wasn't there. Like at all. We knew exactly what happened though, our car got "spider-ed" (it's this type of tow truck in Kosovo and Macedonia and it has this claw thing that wraps around your car and picks it up and then they take your car away and they call it a spider. Its actually pretty cool looking!) so we had to go running around the city in a language we didn't speak trying to figure out where our car was, finally some guy wrote it on a piece of paper and told us to give it to a taxi driver and we would get there, so we went for it and found our car eventually. So then the lady at the place spoke decent English so we asked her what we were supposed to do because we thought we did everything right and she looked at our phone and saw that we had texted them and everything and so she was confused but then she asked wait, do you have a Macedonian phone number? We said we didn't and it turns out that the system only works for Macedonian phone numbers!!! It's like the most rigged thing ever I swear! But we got our car back for a price and finally went on our exchanges there and it was pretty fun. It was sooo strange and kinda frustrating not being able to speak the language! I actually missed Albanian by the end of the exchange! It was so much fun though, I love those two Elders a ton so it was way cool being able to serve with them! Then on our way back we stayed the night in Prishtina with Eddings and Farnworth and that of course was amazing!
Its interesting to me just how close I feel to some of the missionaries here in this mission. I feel like I'm making friends with some of the most amazing people. I feel super lucky to be here in the mission that I'm in where we are all so close. We are really a small family! We are down to 50 missionaries! Can you believe that!
The rest of the week was just trying to meet with all our investigators because it had been so much time since we had seen them! It's been a struggle not being able to meet with them as much as we should. Our investigator S. though is doing great! He is probably going to get baptized this week or next week. He is so awesome though! He is like a 65 year old man and is so nice. He is super quiet, but solid! It's funny because after he gets baptized our 2 most recent converts are going to be 65ish year old men! Everyone tells us we are building the High Priests Group! :)
Those two RM's I was talking about from other cities in Albania that now live in our ward are sooo awesome! One of them is our ward mission leader it's so awesome! Having a ward mission leader that actually understands what we need and what he needs to do totally changes the game! One thing super funny about him is that he speaks soooooo much slang when he speaks English it's crazy! Like every other word is like dope, dog, bro, or sick I swear!!
Anyway everything is going awesome just keeping it up! Hope you all have a great week!
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