" As always i can't believe that it's already Monday again. I think Thanksgiving made it go bye super fast. I had so much food,lol. We had over 50 pounds of turkey and then tons of potatoes, stuffing, green beans, cranberry sauce, and tons of other good stuff. Then for deserts all the companion ships made desserts and so i ate tons of dessert as well. I ended up making a banana cream pie with this "Tuku" crust (Tuku is a type of Turkish chocolate that they have here that is really good). We ended up watching Toy Story 3 and it was really funny. I was hoping we would be watching Miracle or Remember the Titans but i was surprised at how funny Toy Story 3 was. Have you seen it yet? If not you should rent it because it's a cute movie. So ya, that was my Thanksgiving.
We got a lot of rain here this week. Luckily i have been bringing my rain jacket with me everywhere because i don't want to get stuck out in the rain with out an umbrella or a jacket. On Saturday there was an awesome baptism. There was a family of 5 that got baptized, a mother and 4 children, and it went amazing. The church was full of people to see the baptism and i had the opportunity to baptize the oldest daughter which was really cool. The family has been through so much and it was an awesome experience to see how happy they were after the baptism. We are hopefully going over to their house for family home evening tonight which is always a blast with them. We also found an awesome gentlemen to teach yesterday at the church. I usually sit in the back of the Sacrament hall to count how many people are at church and i noticed that i've never seen this guy before and to my luck he ended coming and sitting in the back and i started talking to him and he told me he was taught a few years ago by missionaries but he had a lot of problems and strayed away from the missionaries but then he said he told me that for a over a year things haven't gotten better and he got the impression that he should come to church and he told me that all the stress that has been on him seems to be lifted for off his shoulders while he's as church. It wasn't that his problems were gone because obviously problems don't just disappear when you come to church but i do believe that you find strength or hope and you have help to bear them. We met with him (Bledar) last night and talked with him for over 2 hours. He has a lot of stuff wrong and i really hope we can just sit down with him and be his friend and help him. It's crazy because by looking at him i would expect that he is a wealthy, well educated, successful man. It really hit me deep down inside because i don't know what these people need or how they feel but at least we have a father in heaven that does know. I have definitely learned since being here that i should judge things by the cover. Even those who seem happy have there own personal struggles and it amazes me how the restored gospel can help each and every individual no matter how different their problems may be. That's all i have for Bledar =)..... I almost forgot, on Saturday after the baptism we went to an American's family house and had a second thanksgiving dinner. There were 6 of us that went and it was a blast. The family lived in Detroit for years but then came back to Albania, i called them an American family because they basically are. The two daughters speak better english than albanian so its pretty funny. We watched a movie they had on t.v and then listened to Christmas music and then they put on some Taylor Swift which was awesome =). It will be interesting to see how fast this week goes by because we only have one day of leadership training and other than that not to much is going on."
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