“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


Sunday, October 28, 2012

P-DAY  AT MIRUSHA FALLS


Elder Clark started an avalanche

THERE ARE ABOUT 12 FALLS IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER...

SO BEAUTIFUL !!!

ALWAYS A GOOD TIME TO GET OUT INTO NATURE !!


ELDER HADLOCK HAS HIS HANDS 'FULL' WATCHING AFTER ELDER CLARK ......

MEDICINE IN  PRISTINA

SO....WE THOUGHT WE'D CHECK OUT THE HOSPITAL IN PRISTINA !!!


ELDER  CORBRIDGE THOUGHT HE'D GET HIS INNERDS CHECKED OUT...HE HAS HAD THE RUNS FOR AWHILE.....
HE WELCOMED AN I-V......(CUTE NURSE)
 AND, OF COURSE, YOU CAN'T BE W/O YOUR COMP.!!
 ELDER CHRISTIANSEN ENJOYED IT TOO!!!

                         VERY CLEAN AND VERY BASIC...BUT..VERY EFFICIENT   GREAT
                                                    DOCTOR A GASTROENTINOLOGIST ??????

BAPTISM IN GJAKOVA

FATMIR FAZLIA


FATMIR...VLORA....BURIM

THIS IS THE SAME RIVER THAT VLORA WAS BAPTIZED IN IN AUGUST...A LITTLE WARMER THEN....



TWO INVESIGATORS AND OUR EMBASSY FAMILY THE BODELS !!
AND ERZA AND SHARRI OF COURSE !!!

KARYN, JOE & BABY MOSES...

IT RAINED ALL THE WAY TO GJAKOVA FOR THE BAPTISM..I WAS REALLY WORRIED THAT IT WOULD/NT CLEAR UP..SO WE PULLED OVER AND SAID A PRAYER...ANS SURE ENOUGH  IT CLEARED ! !

Sunday, October 21, 2012

MAKING HISTORY !!

 THE VERY FIRST BAPTISM IN THE COUNTRY OF MACEDONIA

ELDER BARNARD & ELMAZ ARIFI

ELDERS ADAMS& BARNARD, ELMAZ, ELDERS KAY & HOXHA



TWO OF OUR SHINING KOSOVO ELDERS. HADLOCK & CLARK

THE QENDAR IN SKOPJE, MACEDONIA

KOSOVO ELDERS

.....NO FINER MISSIONARIES ANYWHERE !!!


FAMOUS STONE BRIDGE   BUILT 1400 ???

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

(AKA MAN ON A HORSE)

FORTRESS OVER LOOKING THE CITY

EJON FORM OUR BRANCH AND THE BODELLS


MACEDONIAN & SERBIAN



FORGING THE CITY.....

REAL FOOD AT LAST !!!!!

SOOO,WE WAITED AND WAITED FOR OUR ORDER...ELDER JONES ORDERED ROOT BEER..WELL....THEY DON'T HAVE ROOTBEER..HOWEVER THIS BEER WAS CHEAPER THAN WATER !!!


Friday, October 19, 2012

LIFE IN PRISHTINA...

Our favorite copy center..it is built under the stairs, very small,the fellow who owns it is young, speaks good English is fast, friendly and knows what he is doing..We downloaded the Institute manuals in Albanian and he  20 of them printed, covered and spiraled in an hour !!!

THE BUILDING THAT HAD BARELY STARTED WHEN WE ARRIVED IN JULY SO INTERESTING TO SEE ..THIS IS TAKEN FROM OUR BALCONY WE LIVE ON A RATHER NARROW STREET...OFTEN BLOCKED OFF BY CEMENT TRUCKS....THERE ARE A FEW PARKING PLACES UNDERGROUND. 

DONIKA'S BIRHTDAY  25 YRS. OLD  (SHE IS OUR INSTITUTE TEACHER) PRES. WONDRA  INTERVIEWED HER FOR BAPTISM 2 YRS. AGO.

ELEA,  OUR PRIMARY GIRL..THREE YEARS OLD.

THIS IS THE BUILDING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION..OUR PRONARI, BLDG. OWNER, OWNS THIS ONE.  HE HAS HAD MUCH TROUBLE,  HE DOESN'T OWN THE LAND IT IS ON..AND AFTER SO MUCH MONEY AND INVESTMENT AND CONSTRUCTION ETC. THE LAND OWNER WENT BACK ON HIS WORD..WE HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR HIM.  IT WAS A HUGE HOLE IN THE GROUND WHEN WE CAME.

INSIDE OF THE LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PRISHTINA

IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL AND VERY EMPTY HARDLY ANY BOOKS..LOTS OF DARK, STUDY ROOMS  

SO FUN TO SEE MANY STUDENTS EVERYWHERE  

 TWO OF THE THREE SISTERS WHO ARE IN AN ENGLISH CLASS..THE ONE IN PINK HAD BEEN SHOPPING ALL DAY, SPENT 120 EURO , THOUGHT DARLA WOULD ENJOY THEIR STYLE !!!

ELDERS CHRISTIANSEN (FROM WEST VALLEY)   AND ELDER HOXHA..ELDER CORBRIDGE, THE USUAL TEACHER WAS IN MACEDONIA...                                

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

P-DAY !!!  OCTOBER 15TH     OFF TO PRIZREN


A VERY QUAINT CITY WITH A FORTRESS AND ANCIENT CHURCHES


COBBLES STONE STREETS AND STONE BRIDGE


ELDER CORBRIDGE,  ELDER HADLOCK,  ELDER CHRISTIANSEN   & ELDER CLARK...







ELDER CHRISTIANSEN WANTED A CLEAR VIEW OF THE CITY BELOW !!!

INTO THE FORTRESS..

ELDER CLARK...SITTING ON THE EDGE????


THE ELDERS COUNTED 31 MOSQUES !!!

NEST TIME WE WILL GO TO THIS RESTAURANT..

WE HAD A GREAT LUNCH 

AT A RESTAURANT BESIDE THE RIVER !!


SUCH A GREAT DAY !!!

GREAT SHOPPING ????

WE DROVE HOME THROUGH THE CANYON..KIND OF WINDY AND LONG.....BUT BEAUTIFUL !



WE RAN INTO THE WHITE HOUSE CLEAR OVER HERE IN KOSOVO..........IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOUNTAINS!