“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


Tuesday, March 12, 2013

MOTHER'S DAY IN KOSOVO

 MARCH 8

 
 
  A WONDERFUL MOTHER'S DAY !!
CARDS, TEXT MESSAGES....FLOWERS AND CHOCOLATE !! THE LITTLE VASE IS FROM MIMOSA'S THREE CHILDREN....
   

GERMIA PARK  PRISTINA KOSOVO   MARCH 10, 2013

AFTER A TRAINING FOR INSTITUTE TEACHERS AND A GREAT DAY AT CHURCH...YOUTH FROM ALBANIA, ELDER & SISTER VOLTZ,& BROTHER MEMA GATHERED FOR A TESTIMONY MEETING AT THE VERY SPOT WHERE ELDER RUSSEL M. NELSON DEDICATED THE LAND OF KOSOVE FOR MISSIONARY WORK IN 2010
 
YOUTH FROM ALBANIA : BESMIR MARKU, GENTIAN DEMIRAJ, MARSELI, ROVENA DRAGOTA, KLEDIA
 
YOUTH FROM  PRISTINA : BESIM, ARDI, FLORIM, VALMIRA, DONIKA ,EJON, GJON. 
 
 WE READ THE DEDICATORY PRAYER AND  EACH SHARED A TOUCHING TESTIMONY, ESPECIALLY THE ONES FROM KOSOVO.  THEY HAVE NOT BEEN MEMBERS LONG AND THE GOSPEL HAS SUCH MEANING IN THEIR LIVES AND THEY HAVE EACH SUFFERED EFFECTS FROM THE WAR.   MANY TEARS AND A GREAT SPIRIT.
 
  SEPTEMBER 2010

 ELDER RUSSELL M. NELSON KNELT IN PRAYER IN A GROVE OF TREES IN GERMIA PARK.  THE TREES WERE BEAUTIFUL AND IT WAS SILENT.   A SPECIAL PRAYER WAS OFFERED ON THE LAND OF KOSOVO AND FOR ITS PEOPLE. 

LIZ  SHROPSHIRE, ELDER JOHANN WONDRA & WIFE URSULA,
  ELDER & SISTER  NELSON,  DONIKA,  EREZA ,  BURIM
 (NOT SURE OF THE OTHERS)