“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


Sunday, August 25, 2013

BEST VISITORS IN ALL THE WORLD

(WE FOUND THEM ON THE BORDER OF GREECE AND MACEDONIA)

 OHRID, MACEDONIA 



WE HAD FUN IN THE FORTRESS ON TOP OF THE HILL

VLORE,  ALBANIA

DINNER ON THE SEA

ADRIATIC SEA

SOUTHERN ALBANIA


KRUJI, ALBANIA


 

SKOPJE, MACEDONIA

MOSQUE IN SKOPJE



FORTRESS OVERLOOKING SKOPJE IN MACEDONIA



GREAT LUNCH AT THE CENTER WITH ALL THE STATUES !

PRISTINA

 

BLINI'S  PLESKEVIC

( KOSOVAR HAMBURGER)

CITY PARK IN PRISTINA

GERMIA PARK

WHERE ELDER NELSON DEDICATED THE LAND OF KOSOVO FOR MISSIONARY WORK.

FHE WITH THE BRANCH

DEVARIE & AIDA

 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS!!!

DINNER WITH EJON & ARBERESHA

WALKING TO THE BORDER

 (ALBANIA TO MONTENEGRO )

FINAL GOODBYE

 

VALMIRA'S BIRTHDAY AND SISTER RICHARDSON VISITING

 
 

 

 

FIRST BAPTISM IN OUR CHURCH

SHTUFI FAMILY

 GOLDEN FAMILY..SO EXCITED TO BE BAPTISED

 THE SISTERS DID THE TEACHING..MILITARY WERE ABLE TO ATTEND

 VALERJAN, DENISA  (2YEAR OLD)& HANA (THEY ARE STILL LOOKING FOR HELP WITH HER HIP DYSPLASIA ) ??

 

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

BAPTISM IN GJAKOVE

 MARKU FAMILY

 

VIOLETA, GENTA, (10)  ALBERT, NIKI, (12) PATRIK( 7)

 ELDER KENDAL & ELDER HARVY

 THE GROUP...

PRES.& SISTER FORD, ELDER & SISTER BOTT, LIZ, BYUH STUDENTS, MISSIONARIES, AFERDITA, DEMAJ FAMILY, VLORA, BURIM, THE FAGON DRIVER (!)
THEY WERE FILLING UP THE POOL..SO THEY WADED OUT TO THE DEEP PART. (WE THINK THE WATER WAS COMING FROM THE RIVER..A LARGE FROG JOINED THEM !!
 

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

BAPTISMAL FONT...

NEW LOOK IN OUR R. S. /PING PONG ROOM.....


AN  APARTMENT WAS TAKEN OUT

 THE THE CHAPEL IS EXPANDING

still holding meetings...

 

 President Mema visiting with his wife and in laws from Florida

FHE 

ELDER JONES BIRTHDAY...

GAMES....AND PARTY..

 CARROT CAKE DEVOURED..
SMALL GROUP....NOT BACK YET FROM SUMMER BREAK...

 

VALBONE NATIONAL PARK  IN NORTHERN ALBANIA

" NOT TAKEN "

 
 



 ELDER HARVEY'S  CAMERA FELL OUT OF HIS POCKET...IT COULD NOT BE RETRIEVED !!

 PICNIC AT THE END OF THE TRAIL.... ELDER HARVEY, ELDER KENDAL,

 ELDER TANNER, ELDER AUSTIN

 (BOTH FROM IDAHO FALLS)

 

BAPTISM IN GJAKOVE

 WE WENT TO THE RIVER AND THE WATER WAS SO LOW THAT WE USED A NEAR BY SWIMMING POOL.

 WE WENT AT 8 A M BEFORE EVERYONE WAS HERE SWIMMING AT THE RIVER.  HARDLY ANYONE SWIMS AT THE POOL AS IT COSTS 1 EURO..

 THREE BYUH STUDENTS  DOING AN INTERNSHIP,  LIZ,  MISSIONARIES, FAMILIES FROM GJAKOVE.

 ALMIR

 19 YEARS OLD, VERY EXCITED  NO ONE IN HIS FAMILY KNOWS..HE WAS AFRAID OF THE WATER ! !

 ELDER HARVEY,

 (FROM BOSTON, MASS.) 

ALMIR,

 ELDER KENDAL( FROM ST. LOUIS)

MAYBE THE RIVER WOULD HAVE BEEN CLEANER ? !

THE CHILDREN WERE DELIGHTED WHILE WAITING..NO ONE HAS SWINGS..FIRST TIME FOR THEM...

MIRLIND MADE SURE MIRLINDA HAD A TURN...


SUCH A GOOD TIME...

 
 

 DEMAJ FAMILY

MARKU FAMILY WILL BE BAPTISED AUGUST 10, 2013


WE WENT BACK TO THE CHURCH, FINISHED THE BAPTISMAL SERVICE AND STARTED SACRAMENT MEETING.

 

BAPTISM IN MACEDONIA 

 THIS IS THE 2ND  BAPTISM IN MACEDONIA..

48 TO GO BEFORE  THE BOOK OF MORMON IS TRANSLATED INTO  MACEDONIAN !!

THE ANDERSONS HOME

 

 THIS IS WHERE THEY HOLD SACRAMENT MEETING.

THE ANDERSONS ARE HUMANITARIAN MISSIONARIES

VICKIE ANDERSON SUCH A GOOD FRIEND..

 ELDER BARBER, ELDER ANDERSON, TWO MEMBERS

 

MISSIONARIES IN OUR DISTRICT

 

MACEDONIA ELDERS

BARBER, GIBSON, KLINZ  (SP?)(FROM SLOVENIA)


ALWAYS  BURGER KING

 
 

ACTIVITY AFTER THE ACTIVITY...

 
THE MILITARY GAVE US LOTS OF TIES AND WHITE SHIRTS ..WE DISCOVERED THAT NO ONE KNEW HOW TO TIE A TIE...

ARDI & BESIM

BESIM, PAJTIM, ANTON

SO HAPPY THEY LEARNED HOW...

WILL THEY REMEMBER ???

DETERMINED...