"In this family we serve missions!": March 2013

YSA CONFERENCE

DURRES, ALBANIA

MARCH 29-30

ADRIATIC SEA

PRISTINA GANG..ANTON ,FLERIM, ARDI, MARIGONA, ERMIRA, DAFINA, AFERDITA, VALMIRA

GJAKOVE GANG..

BELLA,VLORA, FATMIR,BURIM

ALL TWELVE AROUND THE TABLE...LIKE HOME IN YOUNGWARD....

WE MISSED BESIM..HE HAD A DEATH IN THE FAMILY THE LAST MINUTE...

SUNDAY BEST...

FOR DINNER AND DANCE

ADRIATIC SEA

PARKING LOT BY THE HOTEL...EVERYONE LOVES THEIR PICTURE TAKEN THE GROUP JUST KEPT GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER...

MARIGONA ( DONIKA'S SISTER), BURIM,ARDI,DAGINA,AFERDITA,BELLA,FATMIR, VLORA,

SO EXCITED TO SEE THIS BEAUTIFUL CHURCH BUILDING !!!

CHURCH IN DURRES, ALBANIA

IT IS SO FAR OUT THE BRANCH INCLUDES IN ITS BUDGET A BUS THAT PICKS EVERYONE UP FOR CHURCH...THERE IS NO LAND IN THE CENTERS WHERE PEOPLE LIVE.

FAITH IN EVERY FOOTSTEP

THEME OF THE CONFERENCE

A STOP IN SIRE REKA TO MEET UP WITH DONIKA....

FHE EASTER

Elea

WE PASSED OUT THIS CARD AND A BAG OF TREATS ON SUNDAY

(THANKS TO THE EASTER PKG.)

P-DAY GERMIA PARK

NOW THAT WE KNOW THE EXACT PLACE OF THE DEDUCTION OF KOSOVO BY ELDER NELSON WE TAKE ALL THE NEW MISSIONARIES THERE....

ELDER PETERSON, ELDER JONES, ELDER ROBERTS, SISTER HOOVER AND SISTER FORTE

STILL LIVE MINES AROUND THE BOMBED OUT BUILDINGS...

LUNCH AT GERMIA PARK

(AFTER READING THE DEDICATORY PRAYER)

The place where Slobodan Milosevic was supposed to be.

PRISTINA ZOO

GJAKOVA

MIMOZA'S HOME..

MELISA AND MERLINDA

GETTING HER CHILDREN READY FOR SCHOOL

THE WOOD BURNING STOVE IN THE BACKGROUND IS WHAT THEY COOK ON AND HEAT THEIR APARTMENT..THEY ARE ON THE TOP FLOOR....

PRIMARY SCHOOL 7-8 YEAR OLDS

THEIR UNIFORM IS THIS APRON THEY ALL WEAR....EVERY SCHOOL HAS ITS OWN UNIFORM. NOTICE THE SKUNDERBEG AT THE TOP. ALL OF THE PICTURES SEEM TO BE SO HIGH....

MERLIND AND MERLINDA AND FRIEND..

CLASS WAS JUST ARRIVING...

EATING WITH THE ELDERS AND FATMIR AND VLORA BETWEEN LESSONS IN GJAKOVE

AT HANI HANI

WE PICKED UP THE SISTER MISSIONARIES IN PRIZREN AND BROUGHT THEM TO GJAKOVE BEFORE HEADING BACK TO PRISTINA.

SISTER FORTE...BRAND NEW FROM DRAPER, UTAH..HER GOOD FRIEND FROM BYUH WAS HERE LAST SUMMER DOING AN INTERNSHIP...

ALWAYS GOOD TO SHOW THE 'MOMS' THEIR MISSIONARIES..AFTER ALL..KOSOVO IS A WAR ZONE..AND THE MISSIONARIES HAVE ONLY BEEN HERE A YEAR..SISTER MISSIONARIES SINCE JANUARY..THIS YEAR....THEY ARE AWESOME !!!

GJON'S RESTAURANT

GJON AND HIS BROTHERS OPENED A NEW RESTAURANT IN PRISTINA

THERE ARE 11 CHILDREN IN HIS FAMILY FROM A VILLAGE NEAR KINE..WE HAVE MET 4 OF THEM AND A SISTER..GJON HAS BROUGHT THEM ALONG WITH MANY FRIENDS TO CHURCH ACTIVITIES....