July 7, 2014

Hey Mom,

We dropped Billy Crystal. He was creepy. 

At church on Sunday we had six investigators come to church!!!! Including Abraham again. I'm so happy! During the second hour we talked about the law of chastity, and he stood up and said, "In the Bible it says that men should only have one wife. But Abraham had three wives. Why is that ok?" He really gets the discussion going and I like that. At the end Elder Krajnc passed out a copy of The Family: A Proclamation to the World in Macedonian to everyone. On the way home, Elder Barber said something about it being a "shady" translation. I asked what made it shady and guess who he told me did the translation for it? Billy Crystal. Yeah. Apparently the very first missionaries here commissioned him to do it. But I guess it is one of the few church materials we have in Macedonian.

We made some new pass-along cards in Macedonian, because all we had before were ones in Serbian and the church invites. They look quite good. We put our numbers and the website for the church in Macedonian on there. When you go there it's quite short and incomplete, but I guess it's something. 

http://www.crkvata-na-isus-hristos.org/

I asked Blago who he wanted to baptize him and he said me. We haven't talked about the priesthood with him yet.

Our family is doing great. All of them were in church on Sunday and we tried to have a lesson with them after but it didn't really work out because everyone was milling around and kept interrupting. 

So, apparently a few years ago here some Albanian men killed five Macedonian kids. The other day they sentenced them to life in prison, and apparently people were protesting saying that it was racist and that the men were innocent. We were over at a lesson with Ana and Gordana and the elders called us about a thousand times telling us to stay inside. Gordana ended up driving us home, and a portion of the city where the courthouse was was blocked off. Gordana was on the phone with someone and I heard her say, "Бомби фрлаат," which as we all know, is Macedonian for, "They are throwing bombs." We stayed inside for most of the day and I got to take a nap. NAPS ARE AWESOME. I MISS THEM. Then the next day we were in Шутка (Shootka), where the Roma live, teaching the family at their home, and on the bus back the driver told us he could only take us so far because they were protesting again. We took a taxi the rest of the way home and it took twice as long since we had to go around that part of Скопје. 

We had Zone Conference earlier this week in Kosovo and I met President Weidmann and his wife! They are from Switzerland, don't know if I told you that before. I was so impressed with his English. 98% of the time he sounds just like an American. He seemed to really care about us all and was excited about working with us. He also brought us a five-foot long Toblerone bar. Afterwards the missionaries took some butcher knives to it and served it up.

2 Nephi 8

Well, I love you.

Sister Riddle