Smile, God loves you Bunches

...according to stickers I got in the mail today that were purchased from a very thougthful mother and two sister missionaries during a pit stop at the Amish store in Tennessee.

And I agree. He loves me Bunches. And you too.

sorry for the horrible terrible no good very bad day with out the blog. Last week a beautifully poetic entry of miracles and albanian loving (the actual title of the blog) was unjustly miss posted due to technical errors and the poverty of missionnary life. Basicaly my computer broke down and my hour was up and any extra time cost another 3 euros and that's a meal. So I picked breakfast over blog time. Sorry. It's the natural man...

So here's a petit resume of last weeks activities. and the week before. There are now 3 Albanians getting baptised on the 8th if all goes according to the plan. The friend of the Prifitis decided he was interested in making a life long committement to follow the commandments of God. Galina has quit smoking and drinking coffee. Monica hasn't been to church since her baptism and all 5 are in need of your prayers.

And the work goes on.

-Our zone leader had a birthday and thanks to the incredible hidden talent I have to make incredibly redicoulous cards, he was so lucky as to recieve one of these such cards. It was the top 5 reasons sister missionaries are wonderful.
-I tried to make a cake for our Ward mission Leader and his family and well they were really nice about it. Evidently they ate it but thought it was horrible becuase it was an american recepie. Too bad it was actually french and well just disgusting. What can you do?
-The french time change was this last sunday only know one told the poor missionaries of Talence. So all 4 of us showed up to church an hour late. Sweet.
-We were walking home last night and just ask this girl where she was from and before we could even introduce ourselves, she invited us over for Wednesday night. Cool.
-I was asked to give a surprise talk in church. I had about 12 hours notice. And I think it was ok. it was on Coming unto Christ. They said after my talk that my french has really improved. That's really nice of them.
-My french has really improved. A 18 year old boy asked if I was bilingual and I said yes. It was cool.
-I still have a christmas tree on my front porch. i think that's cool.
-I have no idea when easter, mother's day, and st.patricks day are. I live in a bubble. I think that's cool too.
-Next month will by my 11 month mark as a missionarry. That's almost a year. And then wow...6 months left. Kinda crazy.

So in short God Loves you Bunches. Quiche is really really good in france. There is a muslim couple that belives in Jesus Christ. They told me to tell people. I'm a terrible cook. And I love love love that I have three more weeks at least with sr wilcox.

love,
shai