The attached picture is of Ylli and me! He loved the tie - thanks. I read my Patriarchal blessing every week but something I just remembered is you said you were gonna send me my mission setting apart blessing and I haven't received it. That would be awesome to read! And I think that's all I need. An electric razor seems pretty nice but I don't want one. I would've maybe if I could have started out with one cause buying razors and shaving cream and having to share a bathroom an electric would be better, but I have a ton of razors and shaving cream so I don't want an electric one. I'm shaving every day though, like the white handbook says too. I can grow facial hair a lot better now. But I'm blonde so that kind of sucks. We'll see how good of a beard I can get when I get back. I only bought 4 white short sleeve shirts before the mission and I'll definitely need more because it gets really hot here in the summer. But I think I'm just gonna buy those in Macedonia because they are only like 12 bucks and I'll be able to get more fitted ones AKA European style AKA I'm gonna be looking so hot. #flirttoconvert And I did get your package last P day so thank you! And Ylli loved his tie! I love Ylli so much. We worked with him all last transfer trying to get him to stop smoking and he's finally stopped! He blessed the sacrament the last two weeks!!! It's so awesome!!!! It's so hard here but that was a reward that makes it worth it. Yea conference was good! I haven't seen the Sunday afternoon one yet because that was 10 at night here but the other three were good. I am excited to listen to the priesthood one too. It made me appreciate our blessings even more. This is the first time they've translated conference into Albanian and put it on the website since 2007. Plus, I don't think it's ever happened this fast before. They might even get it to us with video I think! We were celebrating when we actually found it in Albanian yet we can watch it live in our native language, we can even go to the building to watch it! We watched it with one of the members and she thought that was incredible you could go to the building. Her name is Valmira and she is amazing. She's 18 and turns 19 in August. She wants to go on a mission but her parents are Muslim and strongly against the church. She trying to figure out a way she can go and I hope it happens, but it's up to the Lord. If she's suppose to go, a way will be opened up for her. I am so amazed by her and all the members here I'm worried about when I come home. I am going to be very under impressed with people in Utah. There's no excuse to not be a strong member in Utah yet we have inactive all over. It's sad how much we take it for granted. Yea I got a Dear Elder from the Goodrich's a little while ago. I think they said something about a Christmas picture they were gonna send me. That's awesome Kaylee is going on a mission!!!! When did she decide to go?? She's gonna be awesome! And yea we're gonna have so many missionaries!! And I was thinking about it with all the new missionaries we'll have a ton of new converts so the converts will keep the missionary number up when they go out! Like Valmira, she was baptized 11 months ago so now she can go in August and be one of those adding to the number ya know? We live in such a miraculous time! Soon, even these muslim countries will know what the Book of Mormon is and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. But I guess here they'll know about Librit te Mormonit edhe Kishes se Jezu Krishtit te shentoreve te diteve te mevonshme. I still don't know how to do the e's with the 2 dots above it but oh well. So I'm really bad at keeping you updated but we moved houses last week because the lease was up and we found a better house that was cheaper. Saturday, we went to Brus to visit Ylli and he showed us his bee's. He has a ton! He took me down to get close, which was cool. I don't know how it happened, but i was wearing a beanie and I felt some stings on the hat but they weren't penetrating me and I think I swatted and my mouth was open. So I got stung on the inside of my mouth. It was an interesting feeling. I didn't know how to react so I just shouted, "It stung my mouth!" I'm sure that was pretty comical. No one else thought it was but thinking back that's a funny reaction. It feels weird but I'm good. Haha another thing I forgot to tell you about was an interview I did near the end of last transfer. I did a baptismal interview as a trainee which was pretty cool. It was an investigator that had been investigating the church for like 4 months and I went in knowing she probably wasn't ready but at the same time being open. We started and I asked if she wanted to say the opening prayer. She said no. I said will you? She said no. So I said it and then asked her if she believed in God, she said yes. The second part of the first question is if she believes in Christ and she said no. I knew she didn't because that's been her issue the whole time, so I wasn't surprised. I was just wondering why the missionaries had set up an interview. I tried to think of something to say to save the interview, which had inevitably failed. She continued saying she doesn't believe He still lives. So I asked if she thought He had lived, which she did. Then I asked if she believed He had died for our sins, and she didn't. She had your basic Muslim belief on Christ. I told her Christ was important and central to our church, then I asked her why she wanted to get baptized. She said she didn't, she thought she was learning about baptism and then would decide, which is what the sisters had told her. They just hadn't properly prepared her for the interview. I'm still saying I did an interview as a trainee even though we didn't get past question 1. Hahahaha it was so funny though. Saturday was the anniversary of Macedonia opening up!! The last country in Europe to open! Just letting you know that. Pretty cool huh? I know the missionaries that opened up Macedonia and one of them is serving there right now! Cool fact of the day. Anyway, love ya and hope you have a great day! Good luck with finals and congrats on making it through another semester!!
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