“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 25, 2012

SUNDAY BRUNCH

We had our Gjakova members and the BYUI students......three of the BYUI students spoke and then they did a wonderful  musical number. half in english and half in Albanian.  We only had one of our members(and an investigator). here as it was Bajram...( a Moslom holiday to celebrate the end of Ramadan, which is a28 day fast (which none of them do !).  This is the biggest holiday next to New Years...(no Christmas as it is 80% Moslom)  the celebration lasts for 3 days.....all the relatives go from house to house and eat food and drink together.  Our members families are Moslom so they were with their families,  except one whose family is catholic.    


 We decided to do Lemon pepper chicken and rice.....Of course there is no lemon pepper seasoning...so we walked down to the treg and bought  a lot  of  lemons, grated them, dried the peel, then  powdered it, then mixed it with pepper.   So..the mushroom soup is powdered..(.there are NO cans of anything in this country.)  the pkgs of powdered mushroom soup are 117 g. and all the languages on the back ,( about 4 of them) are not English nor Albanian..but I can figure out you use 750 ml of something.....to compare this to a can of  undiluted  mushroom soup......Well............ it turned out good..the rice was mucky...but the not brownies were GREAT !!!!!!!We had a great time...


                            Oh, yes..we had Cabbage salad and rolls too......