Tirana Forever

 February 8 2021

Hiii!!

Fun week!! We saw a lot of miracles this week.  We met with a new friend Shpresa, the most polite old nënë in the world. We also got tea with our favorite fruit stand lady!! She is the CUTEST. Her name is Kela and every time we walk past her fruit stand she blows us kisses.

Today we hiked in the biggest rain and sleet storm of my life. Me and sister anderson were seriously blowing off the mountain. Big wind haha. And then a few hours later we trudged our way into a restuarant looking like we had literally jumped into the lake. They brought us towels and seat cushions and new clothing to change into ??? #blessed

Tomorrow I am being transferred with Sister Davis!! My mission grandma!! Eeee! She was on my hit list of people to serve with, WOO. I will miss sweet sister Anderson tho:( We will be covering a megaaaaa zone which is going to be so fun. All of Tirana and Kombinat are in our zone, this means that Baroneshas (the store with !!DIET COKE!!) is in my zone. YEEHAW. My district did sit me down today and challenged me to go 6 months without  Diet Coke or Coke Zero because I "need to break the vicious cycle of addiction". Sad part is that they were serious. 

I felt the spirit this week reading 2 Nephi 25:26+29. Give it a read!

A quote I love from maybe Howard W Hunter? is: Without Christ nothing is permanently good, with Christ nothing is permanently bad.

I love you all EE! Happy valentines day this week, cutest holiday ever!💗😋❤😇💓🥰

Ju dua shumë shumë shumë
Motra Mënz




Hike!


District dinner!


Kela!


Church!




Face masks!


Anderson and I ran!


Armela!


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