NEW MILITARY AT CHURCH

THE FIRST GROUP IS HERE...

THEY ARE ALL FROM UTAH,

 SISTER BARNES IS ELDER ROBERT'S NEIGHBOR,

SHE HAS A SON ON A MISSION AND A DAUGHTER IN THE MILITARY WHO IS HEADED TO AFGANISTAN

LOVE OUR ROAD.....

 SISTER HOOVER'S BIRTHDAY..

LEMON MERINGUE  PIE

RABAXHI BRIDGE 

 ON THE MIRUSHA RIVER

 (18TH CENTURY) BUBEL VILLAGE,  MALISHEVA

IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF SOME VILLAGES AND THE ROAD DEAD ENDS HERE...

IT IS STRAWBERRY SEASON..WE BOUGHT A WHOLE CASE !!

BAPTISM  OF MIRLIND & MIRLINDA THEY WERE 8 ON THURSDAY..

WE HAD EVRYONE FROM THE BRANCH BUT FATMIR....

MIRLINDA

 ONLY WANTED ELDER CORBRIDGE TO BAPTISE HER(HE IS WELL OVR 6 FT. SO HE KNELT DOWN IN THE HOT TUB....WHEN SHE CAME UP FROM THE WATER SHE EXCLAIMED

U  KENAQA  (I ENJOYED THAT) 

ELDER KENDAL

& MIRLIND ARE PALS 

EVERYONE LOVES ELDER DEARDEN

A GREAT MISSIONARY !!!

RREZA'S CHILDREN VISITNG FROM AMERICA (ERJON & ELISA)

STRAWBERRIES, BROWNIES,

& SLOPPY JO'S 

 MIMOSA, HER CHILDREN & VLORA

IT WAS A WONDERFUL TIME... 

 

VISITING FATMIR'S FAMILY 

THIS IS A GRAIN  GRINDER..THEY PUT IN THE WHOLE COB OF CORN THEY HAVE GROWN  INTO THE GRINDER TO FEED THE COW.

ONE OF SEVERAL HAY STACKS THAT FATMIR STACKED...HE CUT ALL THE GRASS/HAY BY HAND WITH A SYTHE  ABOUT 5 ACRES  OF GRASS..THIS IS HOW THEY STORE IT FOR THE WINTER.

ELDER  DEARDON PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL  !!!

FATMIR,  SAM,  ELDER DEARDON, (FROM  MAPLETON, UTAH), ELDER KENDALL ,(FROM ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI),  FATMIR'S MOTHER

THE COWS THAT EAT THE HAY AND GRAIN.  THE WOMEN DO ALL THE MILKING  IN THIS COUNTRY!!

NEW MINI MISSIONARY...

ELDER  DAJA IS FROM VLOR, ALBANIA, HE RECIEVED A MISSION CALL TO BIRMINGHAM,  ENGLAND  AND IS WAITING FOR A VISA, HE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH FOR 6 YEARS..HIS PARENTS ARE MEMBERS AND HE HAS TWIN BROTHERS WHO ARE 13.   HE TURNED 18 IN APRIL !!

HIS  COMPANION IS ELDER ADAMS WHO STARTED HIS MISSION IN CROATIA AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO SERBIA THEN TO OUR MISSION  TO LEARN MACEDONIAN....HE WAS THE A.P. OF OUR MISSION...WE ARE THRILLED TO HAVE THEM BOTH !!!!!

HE HAS NEVER BEEN OUT OF ALBANIA AND HE THINKS THAT PRISTINA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY HE HAS EVER SEEN.....HE WILL HAVE MAJOR CULTURE SHOCK WHEN HE GETS TO  ENGLAND !!

 

P-DAY  IN SKOPJE

 

ALEXANDER-THE-GREAT !!

SHOPPING FOR SOUVENIRS

WALKING THE STREETS OF OLD TOWN SKOPJE...THE ALBANIAN SIDE

THE FORTRESS THAT OVER LOOKS THE CITY

ELDER ADAMS THINKS HE CAN GET ANYWHERE

 

 MISSIONARY WEEKEND

 ON THE ADRIATIC SEA IN DURRES, ALBANIA

 

 RELIEF SOCIETY PRESIDENTS FROM 3 BRANCHES IN TIRANA BROUGHT SACK LUNCHES FOR THE RIDE HOME   

TWO FULL TIME SISTR MISSIONARIES WITH 18 YEAR OLD PERSPECTIVE MISSIONARIES

MOST OF THE GROUP

 ( ABOUT 65 TOTAL  YOUTH)

FOR THE MISSIONARY  PREP WEEKEND

VALMIRA & A GIRL FROM ELBASAN

BOTH THEIR FAMILIES ARE AGAINST THE CHURCH

MEDLIR MEMA, THE DIRECTOR FOR  SEMINAY AND INSTITUTE WITH THE DIRECTOR FROM THE U.K. PUT IT ALL TOGETHER............

VALMIRA AND HER COMPANION FROM TIRANA  (ALBANIANS ARE MUCH SMALLER/SHORTER THAN KOSOVARS)

 

DEMAJ  FAMILY

MIRLIND & MERLINDA ARE BEING BAPTISED THIS SATURDAY   THEY WERE THRILLED WITH PICTURES  OF MY GRANDCHILDREN

MELISA.. ONLY YOUNG WOMAN IN KOSOVO

PROM

WE ALL HUNTED EVERYWHERE  FOR A DRESS FOR VALMIRA FOR THE PROM..WE FOUND THIS ONE FROM ONE OF THE MEMBERS AND IT HAD A LITTLE JACKET THAT WENT WITH IT..BUT HER MOTHER WOULD NOT LET HER WEAR IT !! (HER SISTER WITH HER)EVERYONE GOES TO PROM..NOT NECESSARILY A DATE EVENT..FROM 7P M TILL 2 A M ! 

FIRST TIME WE HAVE EVER SEEN HER MOTHER...SHE BROUGHT HER BY TO SHOW US HER DRESS...

SHE WANTED HER PICTURE TAKEN WITH THE MISSIONARIES !!!!!!!!

 

ADEM JASHARI

THE PRISTINA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS NAMED AFTER HIM

LOCATED IN CENTRAL KOSOVO NEAR SKENDERAJ

GRAVES OF THE 52 FAMILY MEMBERS WHO WERE KILLED IN THE HOUSE INCLUDING YOUNG CHILDREN

A VERY SOMBERING SIGHT

A BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL OVER LOOKING THE VILLAGE

THIS IS THE PART OF THE HOUSE COMPLEX THAT WAS NOT DESTROYED

SCHOOL CHILDREN VISITING THE MEMORIAL

STATUE OF ADEM JASHARI FROM TEH 1999 WAR

THE FAMILY ALL HUDDLED IN ONE ROOM WHILE THE 36 HOURS OF SHELLING WAS GOING ON..NO ONE SURVIVED

THE DESTROYED HOUSE

WAR  MEMORIAL

 IN CENTRAL KOSOVO

 THERE ARE 42 SECTIONS WITH 50 NAMES ON EACH SECTION OF THOSE THAT DIED...

THEIR BIRTHDAYS WERE FROM 1974 TO 1985 AND THEY WERE KILLED IN 1998 & 1999