“We need thousands of more couples serving in the missions of the Church. Every mission president pleads for them. They…can leave the grandchildren. Those little darlings will be just fine, and I promise you will do things for them in the service of the Lord that, worlds without end, you could never do if you stayed home to hover over them. What greater gift could grandparents give their posterity than to say by deed as well as word, “In this family we serve missions!”

-Jeffrey R. Holland


Saturday, August 18, 2012

An Evening walk in Pristina

National Library and University of Kosovo.

Michelle &  Isni.

 We met this couple outside the Library.  They are here on a holiday.  He is from Kosovo, but fled 13 years ago when the war was so bad.  He went to London, where he met Michelle in a pub and this was his first time back in 13 years.  He brought her to meet his family.  She is from Cambridge, London, England.. She seemed fascinated with his home in a small village 45 minutes north of Pristina, where they have a milk cow, chickens and raise everything  in the Garden.  She said they all seemed to be so happy with so little.   She doesn't speak Albanian and his family doesn't speak English..but they get along very well with his translating.  We told them there were Missionaries in England too, and they could find them on LDS.org.  We had a very nice visit ! !

                      We will go back again when it is open !!!