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Me and Natasha, the first baptism in Ohrid!
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Okay so first
off, I didn't really mention last week but we got transfer calls and I am
serving with my MTC comp, Elder Samuel!! So crazy! So he is going home on
August 30th to be able to start school and I am going home on the 11th of
October so he only has 6 weeks less than me.. But I am going to be his last
companion! Crazy!! We got together last Tuesday then just came back and have
just been having so much fun together! It is going to be a great next 6 weeks
but it is going to be so sad to have to say goodbye to him when he goes home!
Pretty crazy how it is all coming to an end..
Anyway so
this week was just pretty normal.. Missionary work and boring stuff you know.
One really cool thing is that we are meeting with this really really smart guy
named Edlir, he is like a genius! He knows the bible like the back of his hand
and he just gets it so much.. So our lessons with him have all been so deep and
stuff and he seems like he really likes it! And this week we had a really
powerful lesson with him about the Plan of Salvation. Me and Elder Samuel were
like about to walk into the lesson and we were just like "We ain't the
smartest kids ever but we are going to teach like how it says in Mark 1:22
"And they were astonished at his doctrine: for
he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes." So that is what we did and we really tried
to show how the most powerful teacher is the Holy Ghost.. So we gave an amazing
Plan of Salvation lesson and he seemed like he really loved it! He told us he
is going to go out of town this week and he promised us he will read the whole
Book of Mormon and pray to know if it is true or not so we will be praying for
him so much! It was so awesome because up until that lesson it was always just
kind of "who knows more about Jesus" lessons but in the lesson we
really had the Spirit and he felt what he needed to do
then committed to doing it! It was awesome. We will see what will
happen with him!
Okay so later on in the week we took a trip to Ohrid, Macedonia
for a baptism! It was really special because she was the FIRST person in the
whole city to be baptized! It was so cool!! Now she is the only member there.
It was so cool to be able to witness it!! It was inside the really pretty lake
so that was just really cool to see!! I was happy to be apart of history there
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Some great pictures of Pogradec :)
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So on Sunday it was kind of ups and downs... the down was that we
only had 3 members come to church in Pogradec which was a bummer. It is kind of
hard in the summer because all of the members are working so the don't really
have a lot of time to come to church.. But the good part about Sunday was that
we filled the church building up with investigators!! It was so cool! So many
of our investigators came to church and it was just so great!! One of our
friends, named Selami, he showed up early to church dressed up in his white
shirt and tie, it was so sick!! Normally people here don't really like wearing
white shirts and ties so it was huge that he was wearing his!! He is so great
we are excited to work with him. His wife is currently making me and Elder
Samuel pink sock ties so we are really looking forward to that ;) Love you all
have a great week!!
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