Never FORGET

 Hi everyone!! Another week in very rainy Kosovo. This whole week was rainy which describes the mood, cause my comp sister Wilson leaves this week :(( so sad!!! On the brighter note at the beginning of the week we got put in a trio and it has been a party! I love the trio life. We have been making lots of food, made mini cheesecakes, cinnamon rolls, cookies, and some funeral potatoes in honor of sister Wilson leaving. 

I started messaging a girl on Facebook, and she invited us over to her house, which is such a miracle. I am grateful that was willing to meet with some random girl she started talking to on Facebook. She was really sweet and we were able to learn more about her religion, which is Muslim. It is so cool to see how many similarities we have, we were able to talk about how we both pray. It may be in different ways, but we all just want to grow closer to our Heavenly Father and show our love for him. 

I am so grateful for prayer and that we can pray to God anywhere and anytime and he always heres us. He is ready and willing to help us and we have someone to turn to through everything! Such an amazing gift he has given us. Never forget to pray!! God wants to hear from you, cause he loves you sooo sooo much! 

Have the best week! 

Love, sister Butters 

Cool Story

 Heyy everyone!! 

A cool story is while we were outside sitting at the park a girl came up to us and asked us why we were here. So we 

got her Facebook and met her the next day. She is really cool, shes an actress, very feminist and not religious. We taught her about the plan of salvation and she liked it a lot! her friend also came over and sat down to listen so that was amazing!! They are both really cool and we will definitely meet with them again! So cool to see God putting us where we need to be, because we cant go up to people and contact right now, but he put us in her path! He is so aware of all of us! 

This week we also taught lots of English! Which is good it's so funny though because we are not certified in any wag, but people always think its gonna be super serious. But we have met a lot of cool people teaching English! 

We also went to Macedonia today which was sooooo beautiful! I love Macedonia! We took a little boat ride and the water is beautiful, I wanted to swim sooo bad. It was fun to see the other missionaries because we are the only sisters in this country, so it's fun to see other sisters! 

I love all of you, be safe!!! 

Love, sister Butters 

Kristi ju do!!!

Hey guys!

So this week was good, we had to stop church again because there are too many cases here. That's okay though we are really good at having church online so it wasnt bad. Not as fun to not see everyone in person though.

Got invited to two birthday parties!! So that was lots of fun, but also means you have to eat lots of gross cake. It's just tons of frosting and the frosting isn't even good! Always fun to party though!!

We went to a coffee shop with a girl who is Christian. It's a miracle to find someone who believes in Christ here, becuase most everyone is Muslim and if you say Christ they immediately stop listening, so sad. So it was so unreal to talk to her, she is awesome. It made me think though, how sad it is that sooooo sooooo many people dont know they have a savior who died for them, someone who loves them so much and is always ready to support them, and help them. I am grateful for the hard times because it has helped me to see how Christ is in the details of our everyday lives. We never have to worry about being alone because he will never leave us and I love that sooooo soo much! I wish everyone knew, because it's the best feeling ever to know someone is always there for you. Never forget christ is always supporting you!! 

I love you guys!! 

Visitors in Kosovo

Heyy everyone!!

We got lots of visitors here in Kosovo this week. The first is our new mission president! Him and his sweet wife came here to Kosovo and we got to have interviews and go to dinner with them, they are from England and have cute little British accents.

The second visitor was Sister Wilson's dad and uncle, they drove all the way here just to see her. I don't have anyone driving here to see me, Haha guess he lives in Italy so it's a little closer than America. It was sweet and we went to lunch with them and showed them some cool stuff here.

That's all the visitors we had this week soo if anyone, feels a need for a vacation, Kosovo is the place. Here you can see the ugliest building in the world, a beautiful bill clinton statue, and you can come to church cause we could really use some more members here in the branch!

I'm really happy that I can be a visitor here for a few months, it's such a good place!

Something, that I take for granted is the gift of the holy ghost it is always with us no matter where we are and will comfort us and guide us and help us in everything. I am so grateful that I have the Holy Ghost I could not be here with out the Holy Ghost! Such an amazing gift we each can have!

I love you all so much, stay safe and covid free.

Proud to be an American in Kosovo

Hey everyone!! 

Happy happy 4th!! I am soo proud to be an American!! Woohoo wasnt a very normal 4th, but we celebrate today and the branch went all out! A fact about Kosovo is they LOVE America, more than Americans love America and that's hard to beat! So we really celebrated the land of the free, home of the brave!! Ate burger that I wouldn't actually call burgers because the meat is just a mixture of meats, eww not good. But we danced lots and played lots of fun games so it turned out really great!

I have been outside of America for a year now! How crazy is that? Some things that I have learned is we take for granted all the little things that happen without us even noticing. Like there are so many wild dogs here, and so much trash flying around, and many buildings that haven't been finished. I dont think we realize how blessed we are to live in such a beautiful and well kept country! It has been very fun to be apart of a different culture though and learn so many amazing things from the people here, that I never thought of before! Love you all, have an unreal week.

Love, sister Butters!!

Waterfalls

Hi everyone! 

So middle of the week we got a call and my Albanian comp has been transferred to Macedonia, so that was sad, but I am still with Sister Wilson so I am really happy about that!

One of the little girls in the branch turned 11 invited us to her birthday party. It was sooo cute! While all the kids played and danced, we got to go with the moms and they straight up had a tea party. I don't know if they realized, but it was soo fun!

We went to some really cool waterfalls today, it was so pretty. It was a hike and kept opening up to different waterfalls, I really wanted to swim. At the end when we were going home we were just stranded on the side of the road waiting for a bus, for like an hour!! there was a really nice man though, and so it made it a good time!

Something I learned this week, is that Christ will never let us down!! No matter what he will always be there for us, we just have to choose to go to him! I love that because I know I am never alone, when it gets hard, I can always turn to him and depend on him to help me! I love my savior and so so happy to be here! Love all of you, be safe!


Love, sister Butters

 

Fathers!!!

Hello guys!!! 

Update is on monday night I got a call from my mission president that I would be training an Albanian missionary! So on Tuesday we drove back to Albabia and picked her up! Her name is sister Hysa and she is sooo cute. Her English is pretty good, but we mostly speak in Albanian. Which is really good for me! I am learning lots.

I found the coolest girl on Facebook! Such a miracle because we arent allowed to street contact right now because of the virus, so all contact has to be done online. This girl is so interested and keeps asking me to tell her more about what we believe. I taught her about how God has a plan for us, and it made me realize how blessed I am to know this stuff. So many people around the world have no idea that God has a perfect plan and is in the details of our everyday lives!! I am grateful for my father in heaven and that he is always there to help me! In honor of Father's Day, we can think of him a little more and all that he has done for us and all that he continues to do for us so that we can be blessed!! He loves us each individually and perfectly. Also very grateful for my dad's example of kindness and love! He is also the best everr!!

I love you alll, have an amazing week !!!

Love,
Sister Butters