Letter - August 3, 2014

Here is another letter from Motra Bezas!

My Dear Wonderful Family,

Apparently, people say that if you make it to Sunday, you are good. Well, it's here...It's Fast Sunday. The way everything they have layed out is SO nice. There is a ton of personal study (your choice) throughout the day. For example, I read my scriptures for 45 minutes (which was AWESOME!) and now I'm writing a wonderful Greek family (you). We have a few meetings today but not as much as you normally would. We also have a Sunday walk! I'm so excited for that!

By the way, I am taking TONS of pictures that you will be getting this coming email. My p-day is Thursdays. Not sure what time we do it (email), but we'll find out. :)

Thank you sooooooooo much for all your letters and your advice on the way down to Provo. Mom--you can write me as much as you want through DearElder.com. All of you can write me as much as you like. I would LOVE to hear from you all!

Things are going well here. I'm learning more and more the language every single day. Once I get to the country, I guess I'm getting new name tags. Most of it stays the same. Just my last name changes. It will be "Motra Bizës." I'm SO excited. I can't wait to get them. They are changing it so the people can be able to say it. :)

I can't wait to get your package! Motra K got one yesterday and it had cinnamon rolls. Today we will have a feast! After dinner, I mean. ;)

A lot has happened in only four days. In our Zone we have the "Fins" (Finland) and the "Huns" (Hungarians). I guess in two weeks, we get "Serbs" (Serbians). The zone is like a huge family. Literally! They are great missionaries, and God needs them. 

It's in a way hard to explain but you can just see that every person that gets called to the same mission has sort of the same style. I'm not quite sure how the Albanians are, but I know that we each have a design and purpose for this life and for the mission. I can't wait to see that!

I love you guys so much! STAY AWESOME! I can't wait to hear from you all!


Motra Bizës

/// Addendum to letter...

Dear Family, (or I should say familjen),

I got your letters today, Mom! Thank you so much! I love hearing from you!

Well, today so much has happened. We'll start off with my finger. My ring finger to be exact (you will see a picture of it this p-day, I hope). We have had a couple of Gym times by now and our zone does volleyball. Well, until today, I've been just a viewer of the game. Today though I felt in the mood to join. Not half way through the game, I hurt my ring finger...(I guess my first-aid kit came in handy after all. LOL.) I wrapped it so it had compression on it. It's doing better now. I don't think I broke it. I think I just stretch it back a litttttle (high voice) too fast. :)

Now here is a cool story I realized I never mentioned that I've seen H. S. or I guess I should say "Sister S" or whatever it is in Italian. We got a picture together today (another picture you get to see!) She leaves tomorrow morning for the field. I saw her really though the first day just after I said goodbye to you guys.

Anyway, now I've a sad story for you... There was this one day a missionary was having a hard time. An elder came over and asked if the missionary wanted a blessing, who then said yes. Oh! My! GOODNESS!!!! The Spirit was sooooo strong! I felt God's love and support for that missionary. It ended up being such an uplift and positive state. But then today we found out the elder who gave the blessing was needing to go home because of medical reasons. Long story short, we were at dinner and he was still there but was called to the front office. The zone leader said that the doctor that had seen the elder at the ER the night before said he was even shocked he'd been called to a foreign mission since he'd put the medical condition on his papers. One missionary mentioned that the elder was perhaps in the MTC so he could be there for another person there. I'd personally thought this, but didn't say a word because right away I though of the missionary that elder had blessed. Not a moment later, that missionary actually said out loud what I had been thinking--and the missionary wanted to find the elder before he left. The elder was found and the missionary said thank you and is doing so much better!

Thank you all for your love and support. Can't wait to email you on p-day!

Motra Bizës