Winegar-Walk With Wisdom

P-day in LIN April 10, 2017

This is LIN

So far my favorite day on my mission was spent in LIN! We headed to Lin a village just outside Pogradec along Lake Ohrid toward the Northern Macedonian border --only about a 18 minutes makim ride. We have always looked down at this village and said we are going to go check it out!

Above are boats called VARKS --on our arrival to this picturesque village we drove up a narrow herringbone brick laid road to Patricks house. Patrick is a congenial old fellow who introduced us to the blind Nena next door and her married hardworking daughter who lived kitty-corner under the massive rock cliff holding up the winding alley road above. This area feels very much like Greece. Small roads along the cliffs to beautiful clear blue green water below. Lorin wanted to know who owned that Vark/boat! Patrick made arrangements for Anastazi his nephew to come and take us on a boat ride. No questions asked, we jumped into the boat and took a hand pumped ore driven boat ride around the unpopulated side of the cliff where the people had carved gardens into the the side of the mountain. Lorin of course made sure he was the rower. The beauty and the peacefulness of not only the place but its people is ----well---without words... They all speak in kind unobtrusive voices , meek and forgiving and generous. That's right! We found our very own Albanian "BRIGADOON " or something quite like it. These people have lived here for generations! They plan very carefully where their next generation will live and often have 3 generations living closely in the same house or houses created out of the cliff next to each other.

We ate greek salad and roasted vegetables harvested that day on the deck of the only restaurant in town. As we sat we studied Ship while we watched the Lake with a few fisherman coming in from their early morning fishing trip. They fish every day starting at 4 am to keep on the Albanian side of the lake to fish. Macedonia police patrols the lake not to let any Albanians fish on their side of the Lake!!

Actually, we have two beautiful young women that have come to my Personal Progress once that go to school in Pogradec living in Lin. They are bused in to go to school and good friends with Monica our newest member. So we called Monica and told them we were in their village and they came out to meet us and took us to the most beautiful sights. Pictures below.

Silvia and Mikenna below sweetest girls!

Under a church there on top of the hill just above the lake they unearthed flooring like that in Greece of beautiful tapestry

We lingered as long as we could! Neither of us wanting to go!

But we had family home evening to put on for the members in Pogradec and we would have no Elders because they were in Tirana for President Interviews.

Below are pictures looking from outside of Lin toward Lin