Stacked Exchanges

If you're reading this, close your eyes and imagine you are in Lushnjë, Albania...

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Yeah I don't know why you did that. Hope you enjoyed that moment if you actually did it. Thanks for being a good sport. Let's get going.

Definitely a little bit more of a difficult week just because we didn't do a great job planning haha so even productive time just didn't feel good which was rough lol. Planning is big! If you aren't intentional with the work you're doing, it doesn't bring much fulfillment or satisfaction. Anyways, we made sure to really plan out yesterday so we don't get a repeat of that haha. 

Anyways, the start of the week was bomb. I was able to head back over to my beloved city of Elbasan for a day on exchanges and, as it turns out, the zone leaders were also doing an exchange with Berat, so we had an awesome power squad of elders from Elbasan, Lushnje, and Berat all in the same city (and apartment) for a day. It was flipping sick because it was myself, Elder Christensen, Elder Koch, and Elder Wach. They're all legends and any time spent around them is good time. You just feel good and uplifted because they are just fun and happy and hard working guys. We had some good times working and then we partied back in the shpi after the day ended playing some skull King and rook while making transfer predictions and drinking coke. Transfers are happening this next week so we will see what ends up happening. Elder Starr will probably be booted out of Lushnje. 

Anyways, it was a dang good time. As it worked out too, we had to go to Tirana to help out with some new water filters that arrived that morning, so our exchange got extended a fair amount. To top it all off, we ended the exchange playing some sting pong with the whole district while we all ordered lunch because we all had to meet back up to end the exchange in Elbasan haha. Good stuff. Definitely my weekly highlight and maybe even my transfer highlight. It was good.

Some other cool stuff:

- we are working on some projects in lushnje and if they work out we will end up working outside in some fields pretty much every day and I'm so stoked about that. 

- we had a Mega pday in Elbasan with the whole country except for Gjiro, Shkoder, Korca and Durres. It was very good to see everyone but it was hard to have genuine time with anyone since everyone was scattered trying to hang out with all their friends (we have a lot of friends here in this mission haha it's sweet). Lots of sports and some more rook and skull king which we love. 

- I made oreo byrek 

- Elder Starr and I set up a food storage and ended up temporarily stealing two shopping carts to do it

Have a good week everyone! Remember to keep loving life because we only have one!

Cauuuu

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