It has been a great week! It is just lightly snowing here today, but not
nearly as much as you are all getting. WOW! That looks fantastic. We traveled to Albania again this
week for a Zone Conference, and the monthly meeting we have as leaders. I
loved them all! I learned a lot about how I can be a better missionary
and how I can help these people find and accept the gospel. It is always
good to know the goals and plans for the mission as a whole and then to
realize the work you have to do as part of those goals. Albania is
growing and we are working really hard to get a stake hopefully this
coming fall if not next spring. Exciting things are happening.
I learned a lot about how I can be a better leader and example to the
other missionaries. I still feel kinda young, but I have been a leader
for the sisters since I got here, because of my companions. I have loved
it! Their is so much in the scriptures and in the gospel that teaches
us how to be better leaders and examples to others. So... I'm sure I'll
never stop learning how to be more.
Our investigators here are doing well. One, Aferdita, says she loves
everything! She knows it is all the truth and better then the Catholic
church which she grew up on, but just can't commit to baptism yet
because she doesn't have enough courage. aka. she doesn't know how to
tell her family without them dying! She is always telling them about the
things she is learning and she tells them all the time that she is at
the church or going to the church, but she just is afraid I guess to
tell them she is going to get baptized. We'll see. This week we stopped
by her work one day and she said what do we call ourselves in this
church. Like people on the street, when they ask us what religion we
are, we aren't Muslim, we aren't Catholic, so what are we? I Loved it!
We told her to use the full name, but it is long, so I guess saying Mormon is okay too. People here do often ask what church are you from,
and they don't understand that we are not from any church that they have
ever heard of before. It is confusing I guess that we are Christian,
but not Catholic or Orthodox. kinda funny.
Another, Dafina, is growing in her understanding and faith is the
Savior. We have been really trying to work with her and help her
understand who Jesus Christ is and why we need Him. Both her and
Aferdita came to church yesterday for the first times with us! It was
such a great day. I just know that step by step they will have a strong
enough faith to make the right choices.
Yesterday in sacrament meeting Karen Bodell, our American family from
the embassy, bore her testimony and compared the people here to the
stripling warriors. They have to be so strong and so courageous to be
members of our church and always strive to do what they know is right.
It is tough, but she's right! They are all so strong. I'm so grateful to
be serving here and be able to meet so many wonderful people. That no
matter what the trial or tribulations are they like Joseph Smith, know
what they know, and they are trying to never deny it!
Love you all! and I love being a missionary. I can't believe it is February already. Time flies.
Me Dashuri,
Motra Hoover
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