Trip to Albania

Hii everyone! 

Sooo this week we went down to Albania, and had a few meetings and zone conference there! All of them were very uplifting and very fun. Got to see so many missionaries which is definitely the highlight of all of it!! Love everyone here, lots of good people! 

Also Kristina, the girl who is getting baptized happened to be visiting her family the exact same time we were there! Wow, God really knows what he is doing. We got to go over to her mom's house and teach all of them. Such an amazing experience to have Kristina there, bearing her testimony to her mom and sister, it was incredible! 

I love being a missionary so so much! I would for sure recommend the experience to anyone, not cause it's always fun, and happy, but because it's a life changing experience, and you get to feel happy, even in the crappy situations because you are focusing on the most important things in life! 

Love you all have an unreal week!!! 

Sister Butters 

Lumturi!!!

 Hey, so this week was a really good one!!! Most of them are, Haha! But first the really cool girl Kristina that we started teaching who was referred by the member, we went over to her house and first of all it's in the prettiest village ever up on top of a mountain, it is gorgeous up there. The second thing is she is amazing! She was talking about how grateful she was that she has found the truth and for how long she was searching for it. Then she said to us, "I have to share this with everyone, because so many people, are searching for this like I was." It was so incredible and reminded me what a blessing this knowledge is, I easily forget because I've grown up with it and never known what it is like without it. But the gospel is AMAZING, to know we have a savior who died for us individually, is so COMFORTING! this knowledge is truly HAPPINESS and I do want everyone to be able to learn and know that they have a savior who loves them! Ah I am really grateful to be here and for the examples around me! Guys, there are so many good people in the world, so many people trying to do good and I'm just grateful to be able to learn from so many of them! 

Hey, love you all hope your weeks are filled with happiness 

Love, sister Butters 

Shume, shume :)

Wow, lots of really good stuff this week!! 

On Tuesday we had to drive up to Tirana which is about 4 hours from here. We were planning on just dropping Sister Wilson off and then driving back, but our mission president said we could all have a sleepover! So it ended up being 11 sisters, in one house with about 4 beds. It was a slumber party for sure!! So much fun! 

Okay, then coolest thing ever, it's honestly so cool I dont know if I can even explain it. So a member named Rexhep  called us to come over to his house,  because he had met a girl while he was leaving his sister's apartment. He sai that she wanted to get baptized, so we went over, and I cant explain how amazing she was. She explained to us how she has been searching for the true church, and how nothing ever felt right. Until that day when Rexhep started talking to her, explaining our beliefs about Joseph Smith and the book of Mormon and she said she instantly knew that this was the true church. It was soo unreal, I cant even describe it!! So two things out of the many things I learned from this, is, number one, God really is in this work 100%, number 2 we need to share the gospel with everyone, more openly, this girl has been searching and if it wasn’t for Rexhep who decide to share his testimony with a girl he had just met, she would still be searching and confused. She has been texting me a lot and the amount of times she says how happy she is now, is crazy! This gospel is happiness!! It's the sustaining happiness that doesn't vary depending on your situation it is simply always there and everyone deserves to have this happiness in there life! I am so grateful to be a missionary, it really is so incredible! I hope all of you can continue to share your testimony with those around you, you never know the impact it will have! I love you guys!! 

Love, sister Butters

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.