I made it to Bitola!! (5/1/17)

This week was really really great week! Really busy but really great! So the beginning of the week was kind of normal. Just some meetings and some contacting it was fun. CRAZY STORY (but before I tell you, don't worry, Albania is a really safe place.) Okay so we were contacting and I was talking to this dude and the street, meanwhile this like homeless man walks up to me and points to my watch then he holds up this weird things with wires and stuff and lights a lighter underneath it and my heart dropped. I thought it was a bomb! So I started like backing up really fast and yelling but then he just walked away and it was nothing. Then the person I was with was like "Don't worry, we don't have any terrorists in Albania, just crazy people." I was so scared! My life flashed before my eyes! (I lived a pretty good life, in case you were wondering) 

Also here are some random pictures of my shoes..
they are holding up like champs!

Final stretch 5 months left! 

Then we got the assignment to go to a city in Albania called Pogradec, to take some church photo's to their new church building down there. Then from Pogradec we went to do an exchange in a city in Macedonia called Ohrid! It was SO pretty there. There is like this lake there and it is gorgeous! I have been there a couple times before but the other times it has been snowy and dark there so this was the first time I have seen it during the spring and man was it pretty! But yeah it was fun to do an exchange there. I obviously don't speak any Macedonian at all but I was still trying to street contact and stuff it was so much fun! The missionaries there wrote down some phrases for me to say to people so I was just some weird American trying to speak Macedonian to people it was funny. 

But it was just really gorgeous there in Ohrid! There are a lot of tourists that go there because it is referred to by some as the "Jerusalem of Europe" because of how many church's there are and I guess the Apostle Paul went there once or something like that. But it was really cool! Oh yeah and I helped out with a lesson there and this guy totally lived in America for a super long time and said that he was pretty positive that he has seen missionaries before when we lived in Chicago.. So I asked him when he lived in Chicago and he said from 1978-1990 and I was like dude I bet he saw my dad as a missionary in Chicago... Just saying. But anyway Ohrid was just awesome... I highly recommend going there. I mean, it was marked as that 5'th best city in the world to visit on https://www.lonelyplanet.com/best-in-travel/cities... ;) 

Ohrid, Macedonia! Excited to take you all here family!!! 

This is Bitola

So then the second day we were in Macedonia we drove to this city called Bitola! It is this city at the bottom of Macedonia that is like 5 minutes away from Athens Greece. There aren't any missionaries serving there right now but we are looking to sending some missionaries there soon! So we will see! It was pretty cool though because we were able to work there for a few hours, making us some of the first missionaries to ever do missionary work there. It was pretty cool. Anyway that was pretty much my week. We always played soccer on Saturday it was loads of fun but at one point I got knocked over and landed on my tailbone super hard it hurt way bad!! Ha but we are good. I am loving it here so much! Thank you all for your love and support! 

Have a great week! 

Elder Farnworth