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| Sister Z's younger brother actually participated in this. |
Hello Hello!!! :)
This past week was just such an absolutely amazing
week!! I feel like a lot of things have happened this past week, it was a busy
week, that is for sure. But it was amazing!
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| Swollen eyes!!! |
First thing is first. Happy Mother's day!!!! Skyping
yesterday was absolutely amazing and I loved it so much!! It was so good to
hear all of your voices and to see all of you!!! Goodness gracious. It was
amazing!! :) Technology, it's quite amazing.
For english class we are now teaching the Mesitar-me
ulet. Which is a lot of fun. This past week we went over the vocab for items in
a house and everything. I was confusing the word bed and tent...and so I tried
to instead draw a picture of a bed. Which was an epic fail. And then I tried to
draw a picture of a tent, which too was a fail. haha, my companion just laughed
at me and even the class was laughing at me. One of the students got out his
camera and took a picture of it as he said "wow. that is such a great
drawing." haha. sarcasm, what is that? ;) it was hilarious though!
Wednesday was such an awesome day! We went to
institute, it was a super good lesson. So, we only have 2 hours to eat lunch
(we don't eat dinner until after we do nightly planning, so after nine thirty
usually). anyways, for Wednesday we decided to save our lunch time so that we
could go and eat with one of our recent converts after institute and to just do
stuff with her, because it is hard to meet with her and everything. So, after
institute we played ping-pong. haha. That was hilarious. We started to not play
with any rules and boy that got crazy. hehe. But afterwards we walked to a
place to eat. I ate the best sufflaqe in Tirana!! It was so much better than
the Sufflaqes at Time-out. It was amazing. On the way home we got super good
ice cream as well. The recent convert's brother came with us, and he speaks
english. He turned and said "hey, how do you say lime in albanian." I
thought it was a trick question, so I just told him that I didn't know and I
asked him how you would say it. He just said "oh, i don't know. I thought
you would know." haha, i thought it was hilarious! Really though, it was
such a great night that night to be able to go to dinner with them! Such a good
time!
Thursday we had Zone Conference! We only semi got lost
walking to the T1/T3 ward building...hehe, but we found it! Zone Conference was
amazing as always! Sister Johansen and I helped with the musical number, we
sang the song "Gethsemane". It is such a pretty song. The training by
President Weidmann was absolutely amazing as usual! It was such a great
conference! We ate probably more than 25 boxes of pizza for lunch. haha.
Missionaries eat a lot. It was so much fun to see everyone though. It was so
much to see some of my Prishtina brothers. To be able to catch up with some of
the people that I have served with before. It was so good!! haha. I am pretty
sure that this mission has the best missionaries ever!! It was so much fun!! :)
I even saw Kokul! I think her first name is Ari...but i'm not sure. She was my
Sister Training Leader for my first transfer. She came back to visit and I got
to see her! It was so nice to see her and to talk to her! She is awesome as
always!! so, yeah, pretty much Zone Conference was absolutely amazing.
Thursday to Friday I went on exchanges with wonderful
Sister Dunn from Washington. She is absolutely amazing. It was such a fun
exchange! She was a competitive rower-boater person. Like in olympics where
they race the boats, yeah she did that competitively and semi internationally.
I mean, how awesome is that? So...i might have to try that one day. hehe. :)
The exchange went so well! She eats a lot, and I love food. So we went to lunch
at a traditional food place. The ladies there, they were judging us hard core
with all the food that we had ordered. Some people i think don't realize that
we do actually know Albanian. They were just laughing at us because of all the
food that we were ordering. So I went up and said "look. I know it's a lot
of food, but we like food...but maybe you don't have to do an entire plate of
it per one like usual...but just do a smaller portion." I am pretty sure
that we completley shocked the workers there because we ate every single thing
that we had ordered. Granted I was stuffed for the entire day, but it was so
good and so worth it. hehe.
We also went tracting on Friday morning. The funniest
thing happened. So we knocked on one door and an asian man answered the door.
You don't see a lot of Asians here, so it was different. Anyways, he didn't
have a shirt on and I was too scared to see if he had pants on. Instead he just
looked at us and put his hand up telling us to wait and then left. He came back
a couple minutes later and had been so kind and generous to put on a full set
of pajamas. haha. But it gets even weirder. He didn't know albanian. He didn't
know english either. So he called one of his friends, and talked to her in
chinese...and then he just gave us the phone and we talked to his friend in
Albanian. We tried explaining who we were and everything and then she said that
he was Buddhist and he wasn't interested. We gave the phone back to the guy, he
continued to talk to his friend in chinese and then hung up. he just looked at
us and smiled and then said "..uh... bye." it was so weird, and i
felt like we had completley ran into a language barrier. But it was so cool!!
hehe, it was a highlight of the day for sure.
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| The Museum... Sister Z caught off guard |
Futbol on Saturday went super well. It was super warm
outside and it felt so good. Afterwards we went to a mexican resteraunt. They
were playing the backstreet boys. hehe.
Today we went to an art museum! Usually all the
museums in Albanian are closed on Mondays...but we were walking up to see if it
was open and the worker could tell that we were American... so he let us in.
Which was weird, but super super nice of him. The museum was super super
cool!
I FOUND MINT ICE CREAM
AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were just walking around today and we
saw the ice cream and we all ordered some, well all the normal ones did except
for one elder. hehe. ;) The ice cream was so ridiculously good!!! It tasted so
so so good! Almost like fars ice cream. I was in heaven.
I am so grateful that we have a holiday that is called
Mother's Day. I wanted to share a quote that President Weidmann sent to all of
us. It is from our wonderful Prophet Thomas S. Monson. "Perhaps
the teacher you and I remember best is the one who influenced us most.
She may not have used a chalkboard nor possessed a college degree, but her
lessons were everlasting and her concern genuine. Yes, I speak of
Mother..." I love this quote so much! I think that it is so incredibly
true. I know growing up my Mom was there for me for everything. When I was
little she was my partner in crime. Throughout soccer she was my coach, my
trainer, and my cheerleader. Throughout high school she was my therapist and my
journal and honestly my sanity. Right now in Albania she is my support and my
love. But from the very beginning she has been my Best Friend. That is my Mom.
Because of how great of a mother my mom has been and is to me and my siblings,
that is the greatest thing I ever hope to attain and hope to become..is a
mother. I am so grateful for my parent's example on how to have a wonderful
relationship and family centered around the gospel and especially around Christ
and God. There is no calling or title that I hold with more respect that I hope
to obtain in my life than that of a Mother. I too like the Stripling Warriors
can say that I do not doubt. I am so grateful that God has blessed me so much
because he gave me my wonderful best friend and mom. Life doesn't come with a
manual, but we don't need a manual. Because Life comes with a Mother.
I love you all! Have a wonderful wonderful week! Smile
lots serve lots and treasure trials! :)
Love,
Motra Zallenxher
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