“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


Wednesday, September 19, 2012

THE STATUE

THIS IS THE SYMBOL OF KOSOVO IT IS ON ALL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND MAPS AND ALMOST EVERYTHING

WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR ONE FOR QUITE AWHILE..THE MISSIONARIES WANT ONE TO REMEMBER KOSOVO.    I HAVE BEEN ASKING EVERYONE I SEE.

WHEN WE ASKED THE HOTEL PRISTINA ABOUT USING THEIR SWIMMING POOL...

 THEY SAID ONLY GUESTS..THEN THE OWNER'S SON WALKED RIGHT UP AND SAID TO THE RECEPTIONIST..SCHEDULE IT FOR THEM.   OF COURSE THEY CAN. 

 AS WE WERE LEAVING I ASKED WHERE WE COULD GET ONE OF THE STATUES ON THEIR CALLING CARD.   SHE WENT AND ASKED THE OWNER'S SON AND HE BROUGHT THIS TO ME AND GAVE IT TO ME FOR A GIFT AND SAID IT WAS FROM HIS HEART !!!!!!!

                                   (I WAS ONLY ASKING FOR THE ELDERS!)

THIS IS WRITTEN ON THE BOTTOM OF IT

THE GODDESS ON THRONE IS ONE OF THE MOST WELL KNOWN FIGURES OF NEOLITHIC ART OF KOSOVO. IT'S AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC FIGURE MADE FROM TERRA COTTA AND FOUND  IN PRISTINA NEAR THE LOCATIONS OF TJERRTORE (THE SPINNING MILLl).  THE FIGURE WAS ABOUT 4000 YEARS B C.  THE GODDESS ON THRONE REPRESENTS THE SUPREME GODDESS FEMALE, MOTHER EARTH OR MATER MAGNA THE GODDESS OF FERTILITY.