SNOW! (1/9/17)

Korca!

This week was great! We had snow for the first time of the year!! Some people told me it was for the first time in like 20 years in fact! So that was really exciting. In Tirana we pretty much didn't have any snow though, I say we had 1 mm though.... My comp says we didn't have any. But there was snow on the cars in the morning! They all melted off pretty fast though. It has been super freezing this week though so I wouldn't be surprised if it snowed again! 

So this week was good! At the beginning of the week we had some time to do work in our area. We met this really cool guy and his wife who are pretty excited to learn and read the Book of Mormon so that was cool! Then it kind of got crazy around Thursday. So we had MLC training and we had to prepare that, and that went really good. We talked about being bold in extending commitments and ours and presidents training went about 2 hours over time so everyone was hungry. Oops. Then we stayed in the office that night making these cards with the 2017 Mission Goal on them. They looked really great!! I am excited about them. But we had to cut and laminate like a hundred cards. We were feeling all artsy and crafty but then I guess I got a little cocky and cut my finger on a paper cutter... oops. But we whipped them all out and they look great! 

Us being "arts and crafty"!!

The consequences of us being "arts and crafty"!!

Then we went to Zone Training in Tirana, it was really great! It is always fun to see my friends at meetings like those. Then we had to fill up or big van with chairs to take them down south to the new mission branches in Pogradec and Korca! It was a nice drive but there was a TON of snow down there all over the roads so we had to take it nice and slow. So we slept in Korca then the next morning we drive to Elbasan to go to the south zone training. 

The fun part is is on the way to Elbasan the other missionaries car slid on the ice and went off the road! They went down this pretty big hill and almost fell in the lake. They were definitely protected!  But we just waited with them while the tow truck came. They said it would be like 20 minutes for a tow truck to come but then it ended up being like an hour ha. So we just waited in our van which was a blast ha. We played a fun game of Settlers of Catan in the van it was awesome. Then we got that all figured out and just drove back to Tirana. Ended up being in the car for 12 1/2 hours it was crazy!! But yeah just trying to stay warm here!! 

Love you all!! 

lder Farnworth