Hello Hello!!! :)
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| Motra Z and Motra White In Tirana, Albania |
I sure do hope that everyone had a super great week!
This past week was a super great week like always!!
First off: I wanted to wish HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my
wonderful MOM!!!! I hope that you have a wonderful birthday!!! I love you tons!!
I will be celebrating it here with lots of yummy delicious ice cream or
something super unhealthy like that. :)
Secondly: happy birthday to the Twins!!! I hope that
you get a pixie stick cake, haha, i don't even know if that's a thing.. :) but
that'd be awesome!
Let's see. Let's see. haha, i feel like this is the
part that I always fail at. Remembering what happened this week. My journal has
all the updates, but my mind isn't always in gear with my journal. As soon as I
write it down, I forget it. blah. haha.
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| Motra Z with her "tan line" |
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| Big Ben with Mora Z |
Let's see. Vap. It is super hot, but i have gotten
quite tan this week... or should I say burnt. This week we were street
contacting for 2 hours. I put a little bit of sunscreen on my nose, and that's
it. We were right in the direct sunlight. I could feel the heat in my feet and
I was quite excited because I didn't have a good food tan line from my shoes.
But boy did I get it, but only on the right food. I got super burnt up top,
where my bag was and everything. People this week keep on asking me if I went
to the beach, I would just laugh and say "yeah, the beach on the
street" hehe. But yeah, it is a really great sun burn that I got. My
companion was nice enough to let me use her aloe vera goo stuff. Which helped.
Then today, I got another burn from being outside, and so now I have two weird
tan lines on my neck. haha. what do you do! haha.
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| Frozen Yogurt |
We found the most delicious frozen yogurt place here!
It is so stinkin' good. And unlike America, here you first pay for the size
that you want and then you call load it all up with as much as it can hold.
hehe, it is the best thing ever. we only went there twice this week. But it is
so so so good!!! :)
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| Yogurt after soccer aka Futbol |
Our investigator came to church for all 3 hours for
the first time yesterday!! :) And she has the most adorable little girls as
well! :)
A girl in the T4 ward got her mission call today, and
she is going to the Salt Lake City Utah mission!!! :D I am so so so excited for
her!!!!
Yesterday we went street contacting, and a cute old
couple let us into their house! That was the second time that that has happened
in my entire mission, so when she asked if we could come in I almost denied it
and said "no that's okay..." but then I was like "of
course!" haha. it was so much fun! They didn't end up being interested in
the religious aspect, but boy did we laugh a lot talking with each other. They
were such a cute couple!! :)
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| On top of Pyramid |
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| Pday activity on top of "pyramid" |
Today for p-day we climbed up the big Tirana pyramid.
That was a lot of fun. It was super steep and fun climbing up but climbing down
was a little different. haha, but we are all alive and well. It was a lot of
fun though! We all went to the big garden in Tirana...but it was all dead. Just
because of how it looked, I was expecting a dinosaur to jump out anywhere, just
because of the layout and everything, but it was still a lot of fun.
We are going up to Prishtina this week for our Zone
Conference with the Kosovo zone!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!! Yeah!!! :D
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| Motra Z |
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| Motra White |
A couple days ago, I had a really neat experience,
atleast it was to me. We were street contacting by 21shi. Something that we try
to do as we street contact is to say hi to every single person that walks by.
We do our best to try and talk to everyone. I saw a homeless man walking my
way, he didn't have a shirt on, he looked super dirty with his hair ruffled and
his hands all black from the dirt and his living conditions. But, I wanted to
talk to him, because all I could think about was "this is someone's
brother". So I said hi to him. This man looked taken back, and he just
stared at me. I smiled and asked how he was doing, and he responded. He was
toothless and had a weird accent so it was hard to understand him, but I tried
my best to understand what he was saying. As I started to talk to him, I
wondered when was the last time that the man had a nice friendly conversation
with someone. Even though we didn't necessarily talk about religion, I just
talked to him. I got to find out how many people were in his family, how many
siblings he had and how he was doing that day. If anything, for a couple
seconds I got to have a glimpse of who he was, and who he is in God's eyes.
This man had the purest and the brightest tan eyes that I have ever seen. I was
able to see such a pure spirit on the street, and I learned again that it
doesn't matter what is on the outside appearance, because the eyes really are
the windows to the soul. I was so grateful that I was able to talk to this man!
I know that we can all be lifted up by others, whether they are homeless or
not. We are all Children of God. we all have such a price and worth in the eyes
of God, and when we are able to see others through His eyes are the times that
we can experience some of the most humbling and spiritual situations, no matter
where we are. I know that it is true, God loves each and everyone of us.
Everyone of us.
I hope that you all have an incredible and great week!
Smile lots, serve lots,and treasure trials!! :)
I love you all!!
Love,
Motra Zollinger
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