This place is gorgeous! (6/26/17)

Pretty hike

This week was great!!! The work has been tiring and we have been working really hard but it is going really great I love it here so much!! So it is warming up a lot here so people are starting to get out and go to the beach and there are a lot of tourists here. It is pretty cool to see all of the tourists and stuff it is cool. But I love working here!! There are such great members and you just meet the coolest people here in Podradec.

So we met this lady with the coolest story ever... so her and her husband tried to go to Germany with fake passports and stuff but they ended up getting caught in Berlin or something so she got split up from her husband and was alone in Berlin with her 1 year old baby and she couldn't speak nor understand anyone! she said it was terrifying but that she prayed like crazy and just asked God to help her to find a way back home.. then she found an Albanian! someone who spoke Albanian and was able to translate for her so she found her way back home and ended up getting home safely. she said that while she was traveling home she felt that God was telling her that she needed to leave her husband and raise the kid on her own (because her husband was a heavy alcoholic and not a very good guy) but she felt that God was going to help her to be protected and stuff and to help her. so she got a divorce with her husband and then she met me and my companion a few months after all that happened! she said right when she met us she knew that we were sent from God and that the church is exactly what she needed!! so we have only been able to meet with her once so far but it was a great lesson I was just so grateful to be assured that the Lord really does prepare people and help us so much in this work!

I love this lake!

The rest of the week was good. On Saturday we played beach volleyball which was so much fun!! fun fact about me and Albania ha I am a lot taller than the average Albanian... so i was the tallest one and it was so fun... everyone on my team was like rotating around me and made me stay in the front line and didn't let me move ha but it was a lot of fun! i loved being on the little lake beach here it is so pretty.

People live in this small villages with beautiful gardens! 

Sunday was pretty slow here.. it was the day of elections which everyone apparently uses that as an excuse to not do anything include coming to church! Ha, we had a whopping 10 people in church including 4 missionaries it was really weird but the Spirit is always there. It is cool, even though sometimes we have more people at Young Mens or like ward book of Mormon reading... the spirit is always the strongest at church no matter how little of people there are i love it so much! 

Also at the end of this week we went on a really cool hike, I will attach some pictures from it! This place is gorgeous :) 

Love,

Elder Farny