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Me and Elder Kearon!
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This week was really good! We had a mission conference where
we heard from Elder Kearon of the 70 and he was amazing. The spirit in the
meeting was so strong and it helped my mission so much! They told us to write
down a question at the beginning of the meeting and he promised the spirit
would answer it and so I did. As he was talking we really werent' talking about
the subject of my question, but towards the end of the meeting he answered my
question almost as if he knew exactly what it was. It was so awesome! Such an
amazing experience.
Later the week we visited this week we visited this less
active who was in the hospital for Appendix surgery. We found out that he would
be in the hospital for 12 DAYS for his appendix surgery. It was cool to be able
to tell him and my family about my unique story of my appendix bursting during
school. I left out the fact that I was only in the hospital for less than a day
though...
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Me and my 'little brother' Xhoni
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The next night we visited some members to take videos of
them to send them to their kid that is on a mission because they live too far
away from all internet cafes. So that was a really great experience to be able
to walk and meet with them but afterwards we had to walk this member that came
with us home. She lives on the other side of Elbasan then we had to walk back
to our apartment. We ended up walking for almost 2 hours! Luckily it was warm.
When I got home I passed out on my bed. It was such a long day!
We had such an amazing Sunday. We had 2 less active families
come to church which was just so amazing! And we had a lot of people at church
and I really was getting along with the members! Then they most amazing thing
happened that night. We met with this guy named Edi, he lived in kind of a
sketchy area and he said we couldn't go to his house to have a lesson because
his daughters were asleep. So we found places to sit on the sidewalk on the
corner of the street in a sketchy area. It was so amazing. Although there were
cars driving by and people yelling and stuff the spirit in the lesson was so
strong. He was understanding everything that we were teaching, it was amazing
to see the huge smile on his face the whole lesson. Towards the end of the
lesson his friend walked by and started talking to him for a little bit then
gave him a cigarette and left. Edi then told us that he only smokes when he is
stressed, then asked what our church thinks about smoking. So we told him how
God gave us our bodies, and that they are sacred and he wants us to keep them
healthy.. then before we could even finish he ripped up the cigarette and
through it on the ground. It was soooooo amazing I wanted to cry! His faith was
unbelievable. At the end of the lesson we taught him how to pray so he prayed
and said the most simple and beautiful prayer, but at then he stopped talking.
So after a while of silence I figured that he forgot how to end a prayer so I
was going to tell him to say 'in the name of Jesus Christ Amen' but then I felt
like I shouldn't. So we sat there for about a minute in silence and he finally
said Amen and we looked up and he had tears in his eyes. The spirit was so
incredible I knew it was touching his heart. He wants him and his whole family
to be baptized. It was such an amazing experience. The work here in Elbasan is
so great!
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Farewell Elbasan!
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And then later that night I received a call from our mission
president and he said that we are going to be 'Emergency Transferred' to a city
called Shkodër. I guess a few Elders there had some problems with people there
so we are switching them out! Crazy! It is going to be such a different place
there. But I am so excited for it! I will leave tomorrow. It will be hard to
leave all of these amazing people that I have met here and I hope the other
Elders will be able to baptize our friends here in Elbasan. Love you all! Have
a great Week!
Love Elder Farnuërth
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Whenever you go insides peoples houses they give you
slippers... 9 times out of 10 they are girl slippers
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So this week we got new senior missionaries in Shkoder!
Elder and Sister Kollins. They are from St George and they are super nice. They
love to joke and tease so needless to say we get along really well. They are
both converts to the church and have such unique convert stories! But I am
really excited to work with them they are so nice. 
But this week was really good! We had a lot of lessons, we
are started to get a solid base of investigators so we have a lot of lessons
every day. I was street contacting this week which is always interesting.
I had one guy sing to me for a really long time and it was actually really
quite lovely. Then I met this guy who kept touching my hair I was really
uncomfortable. People of Albania are just all really strange and fun I love
them. Also, I talked to this guy who is a shoe shiner and we talked just about
my life and his life for like a half hour. He was the nicest guy ever then he
like forced me to get on his shoe shining chair and he shined my shoes for
free. 
