MUSHTISHT
ONE OF OUR BRANCH MEMBERS...DONIKA, OUR INSTITUTE TEACHER, SHE WAS BAPTISED IN 201O AND INTERVIEWED BY ELDER WONDRA. SHE HAS BEEN THE INSITUTE TEACHER FOR 3 MONTHS. SHE ASKED IF WE COULD PICK UP HER PARENTS AND BRING THEM TO CHURCH.
...WE WERE THRILLED SHE HAS THE COURAGE TO TELL THEM SHE IS A MEMBER.
SHE LIVES IN A VILLAGE THAT IS THE 2ND LARGEST VILLAGE IN ALL OF KOSOVO. ABOUT 1 1/2 HOURS SOUTH OF PRISTINE NEAR PRIZREN. SHE GAVE US DIRECTIONS...HOWEVER... ONCE WE LEFT THE MAIN ROAD...EVERY ROAD FORKED AND THERE ARE NO SIGNS IN THIS COUNTRY.........
WE ASKED EVERYONE WE COULD SEE...(WE LEFT AT 5:30 A M SO WE WOULD BE BACK TO CHURCH BY 10)
MARAGONI, HER SISTER, PARENTS & DONIKA
WHEN WE GOT TO THE MIDDLE OF HER VILLAGE EVERYONE KNEW HER FATHER. AND A COUPLE YOUNG BOYS ON HORSEBACK WHO SPOKE ENGLISH DIRECTED US THERE.
THEY WERE ALL READY AND WAITING, SHE SAID HER PARENTS HAD BEEN UP SINCE 4 A M...NONE OF THEM SPOKE ENGLISH OUR MEMBER SPEAKS A LITTLE...
... WE WERE 1 HOUR EARLY FOR CHURCH AS IT DIDN'T TAKE AS LONG AS THEY THOUGHT...SO WE PUT ON 'FAITH IN CHRIST' AND THE RESTORATION (IN ALBANIAN, OF COURSE,) THEY LOVED THE SPIRIT OF THOSE MOVIES
.....THEY SEEMED TO ENJOY CHURCH, OF COURSE WE INVITED THEM BACK..THE PARENTS CAME UP TO OUR APARTMENT AND HAD A NAP SO THEY COULD MAKE THE JOURNEY BACK. HER FATHER IS NOT WELL...
OUR THREE WHO WENT TO Y.S.A. CONFERENCE, VALMIRA, GJON, & BESIM, SPOKE AND DID A GREAT JOB..AND DONIKA SHARED HER TESTIMONY...SHE TOLD ABOUT A SPEAKER AT A PREVIOUS CONFERENCE WHERE THE SPEAKER TOLD OF AN INACTIVE CHILD AND HOW THEY ALWAYS LEFT AN EMPTY CHAIR FOR HIM AND SO DONIKA ALWAYS THOUGHT OF KEEPING CHAIRS FOR HER PARENTS..AND WAS SO PLEASED THEY CAME..
THIS IS VERY...BIG..FOR ALL OF OUR MEMBERS..WE ARE ANXIOUS FOR ALL OF THEM TO GET THIS KIND OF COURAGE....
