“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 22, 2013

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