“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, May 1, 2013

NOVOBERDA

THIS  IS AN OLD MINING TOWN FROM THE 1400'S.  AT ONE TIME IT WAS KNOWN AS THE CITY OF SILVER AND GOLD.

 

IT IS 20 KM FROM PRISTINA


THERE IS NOT REALLY A WHOLE LOT TO SEE...THIS FELLOW KEPT SHOWING US HIS BADGE FOR THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM...WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEED !!! 


THERE WERE A LOT OF U.S. SIGNS  ABOUT KEEPING THINGS CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL AND WE COULD SEE THE INFLUENCE FROM THE U. S. IN TRYING TO HELP THE TOURISM.  A PAVED WALK AND GAZEBOS..IT LOOKED LIKE NO ONE EVER  GOES THERE !!


MOSQUE

INSIDE, IT MOSQUES ARE JUST BIG EMPTY BUILDINGS,,,WHERE THE MEN GO AND KNEEL OR LAY TO PRAY 5 TIMES A DAY..(I THINK IT IS  STILL BEING USED).


THIS IS THE TOWER  WITH THE SPEAKER  TO CALL EVRYONE TO PRAYER.



RUINS  OF CATHOLIC CHURCH

WE WERE TOLD THAT IT WAS DESTROYED  BY ROME

THIS IS AN ORTHODOX  CHRUCH IN A NEIGHBORING CITY..THEY DID NOT WANT PICTURES !!

TOMB...MOSLIM ??


 
  ERMIRA'S BIRTHDAY

 FHE

WE WATCHED A CONFERENCE TALK IN SHQIP AND HAD A PARTY

 

SHE WAS SO EXCITED..THE BEST BIRTHDAY SHE HAD EVER HAD....

 


THE FHE GROUP !!!

 

DONA,  GJON,  SISTER HOOVER

EVERYONE'S FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CAKE !!