wheelchairs

This week was an awesome week!

First of all we started our english course and there were so many people that we didn't have enough chairs!! Turns out passing out 6000 flyers works.

My companion had a district leader meeting so I went with Elder Sadiku, who is from Elbasan, for a little bit. We have been running every morning #FitnessGameStrong! Meet with Arjan some more with a member and the member really helped him a lot.

WE GOT TO DO SERVICE!! This week we went to a warehouse and started unpacking wheelchairs! We moved 600 of them! We moved them upstairs, down the hall and all over! It was a lot of fun!!! I'll probs send you some pictures!

I taught this American guy! He knows a lot about the Bible and was interested, it was awesome to teach someone with some Bible knowledge!

For P-day we went to mount Dajti mountain. It is super pretty up there! #goals

Spiritual thought:
The power of the Spirit is real. In Heleman 5:30 it says " And it came to pass when they heard this voice, and beheld that it was not a voice of thunder, neither was it a voice of a great tumultuous noise, but behold, it was a still voice of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it did pierce even to the very soul." 

I am so grateful for the Spirit to guide and direct our lives. And I am grateful for the love of the Savior


Elder Michael Ueston

We did some service and moved 600 wheelchairs!

I rode a gondola! it was like snowboarding again!!
some of the sqad!
Look at that view! ;)

"It's like I am drinking America!"

This week I went on an exchange with the zone leaders! I went with Elder Divkovic aka my dad! It was a lot of fun to be back with him! He is German! I made him try KoolAid for the first time, he said "it's almost like I am drinking America"

We went and visited the Nebbies (a couple that has been members for a while.) He was telling us how he went to the SLC Temple, in the 90's with some members from Albania, and they did a voice test to see who would be best for the voices in the temple. He was chosen as Jesus and his friend was a little upset because he was choose as Satan.

This guy named Brother T* is the coolest! He has been a member for about 22 years and he has the strongest testimony I have even seen. What an amazing example!

Spiritual Thought:
We have an investigator named Ar* (another one) he watched a movie called finding Faith in Christ with him, he felt the Spirit so strong. It just proved to me that when we testify of Christ and his mission, people will feel the Spirit! This is the Church of Christ, when we testify of his Atonement we will have the Spirit!

I know that Christ is our Redeemer and loves us, and died for us so that we can live with our Heavenly Father again in happiness!


Love,
Elder Michael Ueston

Some Qofte (sausage), Fries, and Bread! 

Random fruit we found! It didn't taste like anything, at least it looked cool!

Me and my dad! he is trying to look too cool for school!

Elevator selfie! That is always a must!

Gen Conf

The main things that happened this week was we watched our 10 hours of conference all in Albanian! I am so grateful I had the opportunity to be able to hear the words of our living prophet!

I gave a couple of blessing, had Zone Conference, met a couple new investigators, bought a sweet jacket, ate at a Chinese food place, watched the restoration film, contacted, pretty normal stuff.


Spiritual thought:
I am so grateful that God gave us the Book of Mormon so that we can know that this church is true and that God really restored his church on the earth! I am grateful for the spirit and the peace that The Book of Mormon brings to my life!

They went bowling

Their apartment.  Karen and I think it looks pretty nice

Tirane

This week I came to Tirane, it is awesome! We don't have a car here but we use buses a lot. I'll miss driving! I have 8 people in my district 3 of us are from the same MTC group and 1 other is my dad (trainer). I am really excited for this District!

About 20 new missionaries came in this week! We helped them and we went tracting and street contacting with a few of them!

Spiritual thought:
In Alma 34:8 This is Alma's Testimony "..I will testify unto you of myself that these things are true.. that I do know that Christ shall come among the children of men, to take upon him the transgressions of his people, and that he shall atone for the sins of the world.."  I just would like to add my testimony onto Alma's and say that I know that Christ came among the children of men, and took upon him the transgressions of the world and he atoned for the sins of the world.

Transferred to Tirane

I got the call from mission President! I am going to Tirane, 1st ward, and I will be co-senioring with Elder Lords! I am so excited!  I have been in Elbasan for the past 6 months, I am excited to try somewhere else! But I will miss Elbasan!

Shout out to Grandma Jane I got the letters you sent! thanks G-Ma!

We have this new friend named L*! He is pretty cool! He is taking a class for cooking so basically he is going to slay all the honeys, with his cooking!

Spiritual thought:
The law of witnesses has always been a part of the Lord’s work on earth. This law states that “in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established” (2 Cor. 13:1)  The Bible is the first witness, The Book of Mormon is the second, and I am the third! I am grateful that I can be a witness of Christ and testify of Him and his Atonement! I know that Christ lives, and I am grateful that I can serve Him!

baptized!

Our friend J* got baptized! We met him about 6 weeks ago. He speaks perfect english and we had the opportunity to bring him unto the fold of the Lord! I will send some pictures next week!

If you want to know what I did this week.

• We found Besnik's house and was able to talk to him and his family a little bit.
• We went to our homie, Kadri's house!
• Found a cool guy tracting who actually knows something about the Bible and we had a cool lesson from that!
• The baptisms! 
• I gave a talk at Church

Spiritual Thought:
We had a really good last lesson with our friend J* yesterday. He told us how he felt when he was baptized and how he felt the Spirit really strong and that he felt really happy! That whole lesson was just full of the Spirit! I felt so happy just knowing he was happy! I know that the Lord lives and loves us! He is always there with his hands outstretched ready to help us!

Meetings.. Meetings... Meetings!

There are so many street dogs here! We love them! We started to name them! haha

This week we had stacks and stacks and stacks of meetings!
-Zone training, Fier, Friday
-Stake Priesthood session, Tirane, Saturday.
-Adult session, watched it from Elbasan, Saturday.
-Stake conference, Durrës, Sunday.

It is absolutely amazing how many members of the church we have here in Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia! I am so grateful for all the people here!!

Spiritual Thought:
We have this one new friend who's name is Orlando, he is super cool! He stopped us before we were going into our apartment and told us how he wanted to meet! We met him the next day and it was super cool! he loves to pray! and he loved how the first vision began with a prayer!

I am so grateful for the opportunity that we have to be able to talk to our Father in Heaven and be able to ask the person who knows everything any question we have! I know that Christ lives and through prayer we can know all things!

I love you all! thanks for the letters!
Love Elder Michael Uestën