Elder Jacob Farnworth: I got pulled over by Macedonian police!! (7/25/16)

The ride up

Real quick update before I start my weekly email, I am still rocking my circle Coachella glasses every day. I know you were all wondering, but yeah they are still going strong.

But this week was really good! This way awesome member named Beqir came back from America! He was there for 3 months. He is always there to keep me updated on the music world haha, so I am glad he is back! I need to get caught up!

Where had lunch when we got up there

So another pretty cool thing from this week was that we were told to do a new contacting idea where we set up a table with some pamphlets and stuff and have a big poster next to it or something. We didn't do the poster because we only have Jesus posters and we thought it wouldn't be too safe to have that up in a city that is mostly Muslim so we just stuck to the table. It actually went really really good! At first I was like, uuuuugh we look like JW's right now... But I just like stopped caring and talked to a ton of people and it was actually really successful! It doesn't really matter what you are doing, just as long as you are happy and you have faith that God will help you then he will help you!

Cross selfie

Later on in the week we went to Macedonia, it was such a fun trip! So we got there a little late because there was some more traffic than we expected. So we only knew how to get to the church, so we were going to go to the church and call the Macedonian missionaries to guide us to their house. So it is like 9:00 at night and we get to the church, and our phone doesn't work. For some reason it just wasn't letting us make calls or anything in Macedonia! So we decided to go find someone with a phone we could use. So we go out to find people and we see a family walking by and I starting speaking in the very little Macedonian that I know.. Then I am just like, do you speak English, and they say yes so I ask them if I can borrow there phone.. It was pretty awkward but pretty funny. Then while we were there we went on a way cool branch activity where we took a gondola up to this giant cross on the mountain. It was so cool! So pretty, holy cow.

Me and a Macedonia Missionary

We could see like a way cool view out to the whole capitol city of Macedonia. It was awesome.

So a pretty crazy thing happened on the way back to Kosovo. I got pulled over by Macedonian police!! So they like took my passport and told me I had to pay the ticket before I could get my passport back. So I was like what the heck, no! So I said I will just pay it now, but he said I have to wait 3 days to pay it for the office to open again. Also keep in mind that my phone didn't work, and I did not know my way around Macedonia so I would have been dead if I would've had to stay in Macedonia for 3 more days. But then we finally annoyed him enough and he gave me my passport and let me go, haha. It was pretty scary!! But I got home safe and sound. :)
But all and all it was a great week! I was able to hang out a lot with my friend Islam, he is such a good guy me and him really get a long. He is like the Albanian version of me I swear ha he is a lot of fun. I am just loving the work so much! Thank you for all of your support!!

Love you all!!

Elder Farnworth