A New Year
Kanine Castle Dear Family and Friends, It is hard to believe that January is over. Time is flying by. We have been in Albania for over four months! We continue to enjoy our time here. Winter has arrived with a vengeance! The first few weeks of winter were quite mild, and we were beginning to wonder if we would have much snow this year. Well, a big storm came through three weeks ago, and we now have lots of snow, and even more ice! We’ll talk a little more about that below. For the last Sunday in December, we were both asked to speak in church. We only had 3 days to prepare. Speaking through a translator is difficult because we have to speak in short phrases and it makes the talk take twice as long, but speaking in Albanian is also difficult because we have to read every word, some of which we don’t really understand, and it is difficult to really express our feelings. One of our Elders in Korçë is very good at translating, but we both decided that we should give our talks in Albania