Stalkers! Moving Day!

September 7, 2020 

Hey people!!

Well this week was a wild week. We started the week out in Pogradec (best place on earth) and we were teaching so much! We were connecting with the members and investigators really well and it was great!! 

We were emergency transferred to Berat on Thursday morning because we were being followed by some dudes on Wednesday night.  We were aware that they were being weird and had the elders walk us home and even took the long way home.  We were sure they didn't follow us!! Anyways, they ended up finding our exact apartment and came up to the door and everything haha.  Kind of crazy, especially because we lived in such a big apartment building!  So in a crazy chain of events, we ended up moving out of that apartment a few hours later and are now living in Berat! 

Berat!! Berat is a beautiful city and the members are amazing!! It even has a cool castle:) We really miss our Pogradec peeps and hope we can get back there soon :(.

I was approved to drive early this week because my companion doesn't drive.  It has been soo nice to drive home and not walk home in the dark!  Especially now that we are a little more paranoid than before :). The driving here is straight up loco but it has been fun.  I got pulled over today and I'm sure that in the US I would have been busted.  Anyways we got let off when I started rambling in English. Lucky day! 

1 Nephi 11:17 "I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things." I don't know why I was transferred out of an area that I immediately felt so connected to, but I do know that it is no coincidence I am in Berat! Sometimes we have to let go of the unknown and just hold on to what we do know.  The Lord works miracles AFTER we show our faith. This gospel is true and I am honored to be teaching it! 

I love you all! Ju dua shumë. 

Motra "Manz" 



pogradec <3


Hahaha


Pogradec perseri (again)


Berat!


First day driving!


Primary kids


Reunited with SISTER JOHNSON!


Albanian burritos.. 3 nights in a row!


Lesson in Pogradec


Edlira! 

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