Hey Mom,
Well, I have a few things to announce. Big news. First of all, we are extremely close to getting a church building. Did you hear me? I said A CHURCH BUILDING!!!!!!!! The property they're looking at is a ways from Center so all of our members and investigators would have to take a bus every Sunday, but still. Anything is better than nothing. This gives us so much more credibility. It may even be open by next month.
Miracle #2. Guess who's on baptismal date? Blagoy. His wife decided to move in with their daughter so that he can get baptized. He's on date for March 28.
Let me clear up something to those of you reading. Sister Hassell told me that back when she was in the MTC and read my blog, she thought our only investigators were the ones I mentioned. No. Yes, we have had our share of dry spells and there have been periods of time where we have had zero investigators. But as a general rule we always have multiple people to teach. Even zero investigators doesn't mean we don't have lessons.
This week I discovered just how great I am at keeping up my companions' morale.
Sister Hassell smiling, "I just went and told that lady her bag was really cute."
"Oh, really?"
"Yeah. And her English was really good too."
"Oh, you said it in English?"
"Well, I said, 'Твојот bag...is really cute.'"
I laughed and said, "Ok."
She responded energetically, "I'm proud of myself though. That was good missionary work!"
"How is that missionary work?" I asked disdainfully.
Or back when she was still in training
"Stop talking to creepy people," I told her while contacting one day.
"We're supposed to talk to everyone!" she said happily.
"No. Don't talk to creepy people."
We had zone training in Kosovo again, then later went to the army base and taught institute again. We talked about brotherly love and read some verses from 1 John. We were also able to make plans with some of the missionaries there to invite Shelton, who we met one night in Skopje, to come to institute. Shelton lives at the base and though we didn't get his number when we met him, he had told us the name of an LDS guy he knew at the base and we contacted him that way.
We had a lesson this week with this 15-year-old girl named Nora and her friend; we ran into one of "our kids" named Atige on the way and so she came to the lesson as well. I think she knows how to pray now.
On Friday we went to the Swinefords and made cookies for some type of priesthood meeting.
On Sunday there were a few more Americans at church than usual. The branch president in Kosovo and his family were there visiting, as well as some people with LDS Charities who were there to train doctors in neonatal resuscitation. Two of the four investigators who told us they would come to church came. We had dinner with the Nelsons that night and the LDS Charities people were there. One of them was named Shayne and he said he had served in the Austria Vienna mission, and back then that mission included Albania. One of his friends was called to be the first missionary there. Pretty cool considering during my mission I traveled to Tirana for the creation of the first stake there. Shayne said that he had served in Serbia and Croatia and helped open it up towards the end of his mission. He said he never learned much Serbian and they just found people who spoke English or German to teach. His daughter is putting in her mission papers soon so he took a picture of us "the three sisters of Macedonia" as he called us, to show her.
While walking back from a lesson at Zdravka's, we passed a house that had a labrador retriever and her three little puppies outside. The mom dog was nice and let us pet her and her babies. So cute! We may or may not walk that same way to and from Zdravka's every time we meet with her now, you'll never know.
Love,
Sister Riddle
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