Monday, January 25, 2010
1-25-2010
"I have a list of things so I will just go down my checklist and talk about all of them a little. First off a different elder came up and he is going to be DL in our area so that is a relief and some stress off me. I have a feeling I will get moved in February but then again I thought I was getting moved last transfer and I didn’t,lol. For a few days while we were waiting for the new DL to get to our area we were in a 3 pair with an Elder from France who has been here for about 3 weeks now. He speaks very little English and less Albanian. We went tracting with him for those 3 days and we had a lot of fun. One door approach we had him do in French and then I came in with Albanian and was said, “ Like my friend said we are 3 American boys here talking about our church,” it was funny. The cool thing was he let us in and he was really cool…Alright next thing on the check list. Not sure if mom should read this but owell if I wrote it only to you dad she would probably find out some way. So we tracted into a crazy meth house the other day and they people tried to invite us in and we were like ummmm actually we better not. Then he kept bother us so we just gave them a Book of Mormon and left. The only bad thing is that we pass the house everyday because it’s near the church. Luckily they are really nice guys and actually just talk to us a little about the church when we walk by now. It was still crazy when they opened the door and we saw like 8 guys and all this stuff in there house. We also had a kid pull a knife on us today. He tried scaring us and wanted our money but I just walked by like I didn’t understand and I was eyeing his knife just incase he got enough guts to come at me. A lot of the boys here are cowards though and would never us one. I promise to be safe so you don’t need to worry. If he made a harder effort to stop me I would have just gave him my money…On a more positive not we have an awesome new investigator this week. His name is Rrobert and he is about 70 years old and he has been coming to church for years and everyone thought he was a member but we found out last week he’s not baptized. I guess his wife passed away a few years ago and he is really lonely and lives alone because his kids are in Italy and America and he just loves the church. We met with him this week and it went really well. The crazy thing is that he walks about 35-45 minutes to church. When we walked with him home we did not realize how far he lived. He lived right in the middle of Tirana. It was an interesting site to see because the neighborhood im guessing looked like the ghetto hoods of the Bronx or something. If you imagine a world war 2 movie and a city just got bomb barded with cannons and all the buildings are torn apart, if you can imagine that then you can imagine what we were walking through. Never in my life would I have thought I would be somewhere like this. I’m so thankful for America and the lifestyle I have back home. I just cant imagine growing up here. Im thankful that I can do my part to help though and teach people about the gospel. I think Rrobert will be baptized within the next few months because he is beyond ready. I think he wants to get baptized on the day his wife passed away. It will be an awesome thing if it happens because even though a death can be sad, baptism and the teaching of the church bring a new hope after death. I have no doubt soon he will be baptized.... Alright I think that is all I have for this week."
1-18-2010
" Alright well I guess now it’s time to tell you about my week. The week has gone by really fast because we have been busy with lessons. We had 18 this week which is good for Albania so we were happy. We have 2 people with a baptismal date for February 28th and then another should also have a date set for February. The work is going really well here in this area and I am happy I have been here for this long. Usually you don’t stay in your birth area very long but I will be here for at least 4 months and if I don’t get moved in February I will be here for 6 months which is a long time for an elder’s first area. I would like to go somewhere else and see a different city and meet new people but I do enjoy it here and have come close to the members here. This Sunday we had 93 people in our little sacrament hall which was awesome. A lot of people can’t remember if it has ever been that full. As a district we are aiming for over 100 people by the end of January to be there.
This week seemed to be the week of dog fights and Cuna aka Boy fights. On Tuesday we were standing outside the church waiting for a meeting that was late and near the church is a pack of wild dogs. Probably around 8-12 dogs that hang out around that area. Wild dogs are a huge problem here. Anyways, while we were standing there a little girl was walking by coming back from school im guessing because she had her backpack and one of the dogs came after her. It was a big black one and then a white one came up on her to. And she freaked out and started screaming and tripped and fell down. And I take off after them before they get a hold of her and I start yelling and they were snapping at her legs and I boot one in the belly and it cries and takes off running and the other one follows. And I run after them and try barely get the other one in the head. Then the little girl gets up and runs off before I could see if she was ok. I think she might have been afraid of me because I was yelling. After that happened I noticed like 20 people on the streets trying to figure out what was going on, lol. These old ladies came up to me and my companion and started calling us beautiful boys and white doves ( because that’s what crazy ladies call us here =) ) and then she told us we were like animals and so big, lol. It was funny. Then we had a lesson and after the lesson the girl came back with her dad and the dad thanked us and tried giving us money but we couldn’t take it so he just invited us to his house one night. So we might try to go visit them this week depending if they’re free and if we have an open night.
We also so a big gang fight from our window. It was two gangs from a school but honestly that gangs at the schools here are pretty pathetic. The mafia is the real deal but the boys here are dumb and fight like girls. We were eating lunch and we are on the 8th floor and I heard yelling and so I looked out and there were 30 kids fighting in the street. It was funny watching them swing because they hit like girls. But then there is a pool hall near by and a few run in there and come out with pool sticks and start whacking people with them and then they broke them and started trying to stab people but that’s when everyone ran and nobody got to hurt. Right after that 10 cops and police cars showed up and it was over. I was glad I was 8 floors up and not walking outside.
This week we have done a lot of trackting. We haven’t found any new investigators but we have spent 4 hours everyday knocking on doors and we have gotten in 1 time everyday. My companion and I have a lot of fun trackting which is cool because it would make for a long transfer if he didn’t like having fun like me. We always take turns on door approaches and we give each other a random word we have to use at our door approach while talking to people. One door approach I had to use peace ( Paqe) and when the lady opened the door I started to talk but she thought we were Jehova Witnesses so she slammed her door and I just put up a peace sign and said peace, lol. My companion busted up laughing. He had to us steering wheel in his door approach and he did pretty good with it. He talked about being on the road of life and how the scriptures are our steering wheel and directs where we go. It was a fun night to say the least.
Alright I don’t have much time and I still have to write Kelsey. I will probably tell her how I ate a fish head this week at a house so you might want to have her tell you about that. It was disgusting!! Another crazy thing that happened was that an elder is getting sent home because a few months ago he fell and he has had some back problems and they found out he messed up one of his vertebrae’s and he has to go home which stinks. He has been out for 1 ½ years and he was the district leader. Now me and my companion are probably going co district leaders and we also might get the other elders companion who is from france and speaks very little English and has only been here for 2 weeks. It should be interesting to see what happens. It’s not for sure on us being DL’s and getting his elder but it’s an option. I will know for sure next week so I’ll let you know. It would be crazy to have all this on me with only 3 ½ months in the country."
This week seemed to be the week of dog fights and Cuna aka Boy fights. On Tuesday we were standing outside the church waiting for a meeting that was late and near the church is a pack of wild dogs. Probably around 8-12 dogs that hang out around that area. Wild dogs are a huge problem here. Anyways, while we were standing there a little girl was walking by coming back from school im guessing because she had her backpack and one of the dogs came after her. It was a big black one and then a white one came up on her to. And she freaked out and started screaming and tripped and fell down. And I take off after them before they get a hold of her and I start yelling and they were snapping at her legs and I boot one in the belly and it cries and takes off running and the other one follows. And I run after them and try barely get the other one in the head. Then the little girl gets up and runs off before I could see if she was ok. I think she might have been afraid of me because I was yelling. After that happened I noticed like 20 people on the streets trying to figure out what was going on, lol. These old ladies came up to me and my companion and started calling us beautiful boys and white doves ( because that’s what crazy ladies call us here =) ) and then she told us we were like animals and so big, lol. It was funny. Then we had a lesson and after the lesson the girl came back with her dad and the dad thanked us and tried giving us money but we couldn’t take it so he just invited us to his house one night. So we might try to go visit them this week depending if they’re free and if we have an open night.
We also so a big gang fight from our window. It was two gangs from a school but honestly that gangs at the schools here are pretty pathetic. The mafia is the real deal but the boys here are dumb and fight like girls. We were eating lunch and we are on the 8th floor and I heard yelling and so I looked out and there were 30 kids fighting in the street. It was funny watching them swing because they hit like girls. But then there is a pool hall near by and a few run in there and come out with pool sticks and start whacking people with them and then they broke them and started trying to stab people but that’s when everyone ran and nobody got to hurt. Right after that 10 cops and police cars showed up and it was over. I was glad I was 8 floors up and not walking outside.
This week we have done a lot of trackting. We haven’t found any new investigators but we have spent 4 hours everyday knocking on doors and we have gotten in 1 time everyday. My companion and I have a lot of fun trackting which is cool because it would make for a long transfer if he didn’t like having fun like me. We always take turns on door approaches and we give each other a random word we have to use at our door approach while talking to people. One door approach I had to use peace ( Paqe) and when the lady opened the door I started to talk but she thought we were Jehova Witnesses so she slammed her door and I just put up a peace sign and said peace, lol. My companion busted up laughing. He had to us steering wheel in his door approach and he did pretty good with it. He talked about being on the road of life and how the scriptures are our steering wheel and directs where we go. It was a fun night to say the least.
Alright I don’t have much time and I still have to write Kelsey. I will probably tell her how I ate a fish head this week at a house so you might want to have her tell you about that. It was disgusting!! Another crazy thing that happened was that an elder is getting sent home because a few months ago he fell and he has had some back problems and they found out he messed up one of his vertebrae’s and he has to go home which stinks. He has been out for 1 ½ years and he was the district leader. Now me and my companion are probably going co district leaders and we also might get the other elders companion who is from france and speaks very little English and has only been here for 2 weeks. It should be interesting to see what happens. It’s not for sure on us being DL’s and getting his elder but it’s an option. I will know for sure next week so I’ll let you know. It would be crazy to have all this on me with only 3 ½ months in the country."
Monday, January 11, 2010
1-11-10
"I meet some interesting people over here, lol. I have only been gone for about 5-6 months but its hard for me to remember exactly what America is like. I now we have some weird people over there to but I think communism really had an effect mentally on a lot of the older people here. I have a cool experience this week with an 80 year old man. It’s actually the second time it happened to me because it happened in the beginning of my mission but I cant remember if I wrote about it but we taught this man a lesson and when we prayed he said it was his first time ever hearing a prayer out loud. It was another humbling experience for me. He doesn’t want to be taught anymore but we are going to his house on Wednesday because he needs help moving some stuff around so I am looking forward to that. We also start up English class again this week so Friday night we will spend all night teaching people and helping out the older couple from America that teach it. The language is still very frustrating. I feel like I will never learn it. Some words of encouragement would be nice if you have any. I know that last 3 months I have made great steps but I still have a huge hill to climb. I hope in these next 3 months I will improve like I did the first 3 months. The most frustrating thing is just not being able to understand. I know enough verbs and words to say something but I cant when I don’t know what the other person just asked me. I know some of the elders say that it take anywhere from 3-6 and maybe even 8 months to be able to communicate well but it just seems so far away, lol. And now im with someone from my group and we are definitely going to grow a lot I think. We will be together until at least the middle of February and then another transfer comes and one might get moved but nothing is for sure.
Things here have been good. Winter seems to have missed Albania this year. Today it is raining and I little cold but nothing like back home. Usually it rains for 3 weeks straight here and is a really humid cold but so far it has been really nice. I’m not really sure what new has been going on with me. The circus was a blast and hopefully I will send the CD of photos home soon.Missionary work is going good. I am teaching 4 awesome people and yesterday we set a baptism date with one for February 20th and then this week we will commit another to baptism and I think she is ready. She has already read the entire Book of Mormon and she basically teaches us when we meet with her. We also found few new people to teach that we are meeting for the first time this week so hopefully the lessons go well. Now that I’m with someone from my group and we are co-seniors we made the goal to try to find and do a lot more tracting. We go tracting for about 3 hours every morning and I think we will find a lot of people to teach. We get let in a lot when tracting but usually we get in and the old people offer us whiskey or Raci ( I don’t know how to spell it) and then we try to start a lesson and they go off on communism and how they hate the prime minister and then we usually just try to listen for awhile and slowly sneak out, lol. A few nights ago we knocked on 3 doors and got in 3 times and all of them just talked and talked. One of them was watching U.S vs Canada in Hockey and he wouldn’t let us leave, lol. He was yelling at the t.v saying go U.S.A!!! lol. It was hilarious. Then I tried talking about something and he kept yelling at the T.V because U.S.A scored and I was like I’m sorry we have to go other people need to hear we have a living prophet on the earth today and he just looked at me, turned off the t.v and said “talk.” I still laugh thinking about it. We taught him but then half way through the topic got changes to a library being burned down 50 years ago, lol. So yeah as you can see missionary work is pretty crazy over here. But with all that we meet some amazing people that let us in and we have awesome lessons and get invited back. I still cant understand a thing and I probably speak like a 3 year old or worse but it’s coming along. I have been here 3 months and have already improved so hopefully in another 3 months I will improve substantially again."
Things here have been good. Winter seems to have missed Albania this year. Today it is raining and I little cold but nothing like back home. Usually it rains for 3 weeks straight here and is a really humid cold but so far it has been really nice. I’m not really sure what new has been going on with me. The circus was a blast and hopefully I will send the CD of photos home soon.Missionary work is going good. I am teaching 4 awesome people and yesterday we set a baptism date with one for February 20th and then this week we will commit another to baptism and I think she is ready. She has already read the entire Book of Mormon and she basically teaches us when we meet with her. We also found few new people to teach that we are meeting for the first time this week so hopefully the lessons go well. Now that I’m with someone from my group and we are co-seniors we made the goal to try to find and do a lot more tracting. We go tracting for about 3 hours every morning and I think we will find a lot of people to teach. We get let in a lot when tracting but usually we get in and the old people offer us whiskey or Raci ( I don’t know how to spell it) and then we try to start a lesson and they go off on communism and how they hate the prime minister and then we usually just try to listen for awhile and slowly sneak out, lol. A few nights ago we knocked on 3 doors and got in 3 times and all of them just talked and talked. One of them was watching U.S vs Canada in Hockey and he wouldn’t let us leave, lol. He was yelling at the t.v saying go U.S.A!!! lol. It was hilarious. Then I tried talking about something and he kept yelling at the T.V because U.S.A scored and I was like I’m sorry we have to go other people need to hear we have a living prophet on the earth today and he just looked at me, turned off the t.v and said “talk.” I still laugh thinking about it. We taught him but then half way through the topic got changes to a library being burned down 50 years ago, lol. So yeah as you can see missionary work is pretty crazy over here. But with all that we meet some amazing people that let us in and we have awesome lessons and get invited back. I still cant understand a thing and I probably speak like a 3 year old or worse but it’s coming along. I have been here 3 months and have already improved so hopefully in another 3 months I will improve substantially again."
Saturday, January 9, 2010
1-5-2010
"Alright so now I have to think about what happened during me week. First off the circus was amazing, lol =). Their was 8 of us who went and they had elephants and camels and tigers and all other types of animals. They also had a bunch of other acts and crazy stuff. We had front row seats. It was a Monday night so there weren’t tons of people there but it was still pretty packed and we had front row seats. I got called up on stage for one of the in-between act skits. It was so funny. I had to box a clown, lol =). Luckily I won but it was a close one. I had to stop clowning around with the clown and finally knock him out =). I have photos of the circus and my friend recorded me boxing so somehow I want to get a copy of it on my camera but its not looking too promising. Hopefully I can though.
Transfers were today and im staying in the same area!! Im actually really excited about it. My companion is leaving to a different area and I get anelder that was in my MTC group. It’s going to be insane!! We have both only been her 3 months but since there are so many people in my group we had to go co-senior already. It will be great for my language because I will be forced to speak during lessons and on the street. I am pretty confident when it comes to speaking but when it comes to understanding I have a little bit of trouble but I know as a work hard it will come. For now I just nod my head and just say “ashtu” which is pretty much like yep, really, in English conversation, lol. By the end of it I should improve tons… I say it every week, lol, but I will soon send your scarves. I made a cd with photos so hopefully that will work. Just incase it doesn’t I am saving my photos until you get the package. My new years was crazy. I got a little video of it but it doesn’t do justice with how crazy it was here. You need to get on utube and look at Tirana, Albania new years fireworks, or something like that. Because it was insane!! They have no firework laws here so everyone just hangs out their window and shoots them. We were in the 8th floor so we had a great view. Then when all the people are done shooting off theirs they do some actually professional ones which was like nothing I’ve ever seen. I missed that on my video. It reminded me of a world war 2 film where bombs would be going off everywhere at night.
I also have some missionary stories of some of the work we are doing. So I think you already know we have been teaching the mother of the two boys we baptized last week but this week I think we made huge steps with her and now her husband. This week me and my new companion, Elder Vance, are teaching her about baptism and are committing her to get baptized a month from Sunday. Her husband also said he had a desire to get baptized so we will commit him also and hopefully they will make the steps to gain a stronger testimony about the Book of Mormon and this church and they will be baptized. If not we will continue to teach and make small steps in helping them to get closer to Christ.
I also had a very cool experience with a testimony meeting. I was fortunate enough to listen to an American, German, Albanian, and Russian share their testimony at one meeting. It amazed me because they all bore truth of the exact same things. I don’t know where else in the world you can find people united in the same purpose. I see a lot of bad things here in Albania and I know the world in general is in a very bad state. There is no denying that. Even America is slowly falling. It seems like the nobody in the world is united as a people. There is always something in the way. A lot of the time it has to do with our own pride I think. But no matter the reason I don’t know how as a people America and every other country has been separated from itself. But listening to the testimonies on Sunday I felt like there is hope. I haven’t shared a lot in my emails how I feel about the work im doing so hopefully I will be able to more fully express my feelings. But as a listened to the testimonies I realized that within the church we are untied as a people. Whether we live in America, Germany, Albania, Russia, Spain, Africa or wherever we may live we as members of this church are united as a people. We are unified in the gospel and the truths that come from it. We are unified in Christ and trying to follow his example. And it doesn’t matter how inadequate we are or how short we fall from following his example we still strive to meet it. That’s why he is everything. We all make mistakes but we are set on a goal to become like our savior and in doing so we follow his example which includes lifting those around us and bringing them to Christ as well. I don’t think any laws of Government created by man will work. But if we follow the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ and just serve a little more, love a little more, and sacrifice our time and efforts in perfecting ourselves and others a little more the world would be a better place.
Missionary is funny because so many people think baptisms are a good indication of a successful missionary but I have quickly learned that is false. I have seen some bad missionaries with tons of baptisms. A few weeks ago 5 people canceled lessons with us and we tracted for 5 hours that day. We didn’t get in one time! But when I came in the house that night I have never felt the spirit more. I never felt more tired but at the same time I never felt so happy. For a second I felt bad because I felt like my companion and I failed that day. But in reality I have never worked harder to share my testimony and teach the gospel. And that’s what it’s about. Just being willing to put in the work, through the good times and bad time, and the Lord will do the rest. It’s about how committed you are that really matters. If you don’t teach anybody then so be it but don’t let it be because of your lack of effort. I love being here in Albania and already it has become a piece of me. The people hold a special piece of my heart and I’m growing more and more in the scriptures every week. I don’t think I will ever have 500 scriptures memorized or be able to read the Book of Mormon 20 times while im on my mission but I do think I will be able to commit every second of everyday towards helping these people and teaching the gospel."
Transfers were today and im staying in the same area!! Im actually really excited about it. My companion is leaving to a different area and I get anelder that was in my MTC group. It’s going to be insane!! We have both only been her 3 months but since there are so many people in my group we had to go co-senior already. It will be great for my language because I will be forced to speak during lessons and on the street. I am pretty confident when it comes to speaking but when it comes to understanding I have a little bit of trouble but I know as a work hard it will come. For now I just nod my head and just say “ashtu” which is pretty much like yep, really, in English conversation, lol. By the end of it I should improve tons… I say it every week, lol, but I will soon send your scarves. I made a cd with photos so hopefully that will work. Just incase it doesn’t I am saving my photos until you get the package. My new years was crazy. I got a little video of it but it doesn’t do justice with how crazy it was here. You need to get on utube and look at Tirana, Albania new years fireworks, or something like that. Because it was insane!! They have no firework laws here so everyone just hangs out their window and shoots them. We were in the 8th floor so we had a great view. Then when all the people are done shooting off theirs they do some actually professional ones which was like nothing I’ve ever seen. I missed that on my video. It reminded me of a world war 2 film where bombs would be going off everywhere at night.
I also have some missionary stories of some of the work we are doing. So I think you already know we have been teaching the mother of the two boys we baptized last week but this week I think we made huge steps with her and now her husband. This week me and my new companion, Elder Vance, are teaching her about baptism and are committing her to get baptized a month from Sunday. Her husband also said he had a desire to get baptized so we will commit him also and hopefully they will make the steps to gain a stronger testimony about the Book of Mormon and this church and they will be baptized. If not we will continue to teach and make small steps in helping them to get closer to Christ.
I also had a very cool experience with a testimony meeting. I was fortunate enough to listen to an American, German, Albanian, and Russian share their testimony at one meeting. It amazed me because they all bore truth of the exact same things. I don’t know where else in the world you can find people united in the same purpose. I see a lot of bad things here in Albania and I know the world in general is in a very bad state. There is no denying that. Even America is slowly falling. It seems like the nobody in the world is united as a people. There is always something in the way. A lot of the time it has to do with our own pride I think. But no matter the reason I don’t know how as a people America and every other country has been separated from itself. But listening to the testimonies on Sunday I felt like there is hope. I haven’t shared a lot in my emails how I feel about the work im doing so hopefully I will be able to more fully express my feelings. But as a listened to the testimonies I realized that within the church we are untied as a people. Whether we live in America, Germany, Albania, Russia, Spain, Africa or wherever we may live we as members of this church are united as a people. We are unified in the gospel and the truths that come from it. We are unified in Christ and trying to follow his example. And it doesn’t matter how inadequate we are or how short we fall from following his example we still strive to meet it. That’s why he is everything. We all make mistakes but we are set on a goal to become like our savior and in doing so we follow his example which includes lifting those around us and bringing them to Christ as well. I don’t think any laws of Government created by man will work. But if we follow the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ and just serve a little more, love a little more, and sacrifice our time and efforts in perfecting ourselves and others a little more the world would be a better place.
Missionary is funny because so many people think baptisms are a good indication of a successful missionary but I have quickly learned that is false. I have seen some bad missionaries with tons of baptisms. A few weeks ago 5 people canceled lessons with us and we tracted for 5 hours that day. We didn’t get in one time! But when I came in the house that night I have never felt the spirit more. I never felt more tired but at the same time I never felt so happy. For a second I felt bad because I felt like my companion and I failed that day. But in reality I have never worked harder to share my testimony and teach the gospel. And that’s what it’s about. Just being willing to put in the work, through the good times and bad time, and the Lord will do the rest. It’s about how committed you are that really matters. If you don’t teach anybody then so be it but don’t let it be because of your lack of effort. I love being here in Albania and already it has become a piece of me. The people hold a special piece of my heart and I’m growing more and more in the scriptures every week. I don’t think I will ever have 500 scriptures memorized or be able to read the Book of Mormon 20 times while im on my mission but I do think I will be able to commit every second of everyday towards helping these people and teaching the gospel."
Sunday, January 3, 2010
12/28/09
"Even though the holiday season here was quiet and not a lot of people celebrate Christmas it was still pretty good. We had a Christmas dinner at the senior couple house like I said and there were 10 of us there and we played some games and had a little gift exchange. It was a lot of fun because it sort of felt like Christmas. I can’t remember if I mentioned that on the 24th we also had dinner at an American member’s house and we sang tons of Christmas songs with their 3 little kids and actually had eggnog!! I miss eggnog so much, lol =). The mom gave us the recipe and we actually made a little ourselves on Christmas morning and it turned out pretty good. After I was finished talking to you on Christmas night we went to an Albanian member’s house and had more food with them. They live in a really small house but as soon as we walked in they had Christmas music and 8 chairs crammed around this small table in their only room with candles and lights all around. It left me speechless as we sat down and had a really nice dinner with this family. I felt those warm Christmas feeling that come from being with family on Christmas. Even though I’m thousands of miles away from all of you I feel so much a part of these peoples lives and they treat me like im their son. I just want you to know mom that you have nothing to worry about because im am in good hands =).
I cant believe im 23 tomorrow!! Im going to start getting grey hairs soon. Where does the time go? I don’t feel 23 and maybe that’s because I don’t act it =). What does a 23 years old act like anyways? Do I have to start being all proper and serious boring person now =). I don’t have any big plans for my b-day. Probably just street contacting in the morning with some lessons at night, lol =). I think there are like 3 different families that want me and my companion over tomorrow for my birthday so it will be interesting on how we work this out. 3 meals in one day is way to much. Maybe we can go to one for breakfast the next for lunch\dinner and then the next house or dessert or something =). This Saturday I find out if I get transferred to a new area or not. Next week you will get an email on Tuesday instead of Monday because we have 8 new elders coming in so it’s a big transfer and we chance or resting day to Tuesday. Im pretty excited to see where im going to go. I could become companions with someone from my own group which would be crazy. Since we have such a big group 10 of us will be with someone from our own group. The reason it’s crazy is because we have only been out for 3 months and we will already become senior companions or train. Usually you have at least 6 months until that happens. I actually hope that I get with someone from my group because I know it will only help my language. It will force me to try to understand and talk, even if I do teach some weird false doctrine the first month because I don’t understand thing =). It should make for a lot of awkward weird conversations with people =).
Well I don’t have that much more to say. Tonight at 7 we are going to a circus as a district which should be a blast. There are 8 of us in my district right now and this is our last p-day together so we decided to go to the circus. We have front row tickets and im pretty sure we can ride an elephant and have a picture with a bear. All of us are pretty excited. The circus is suppose to be pretty good. It’s the first time it is here in Albania and it’s an Italian circus but I don’t care if I cant understand anything. As long as there is cool stuff I can look and it’s entertaining."
I cant believe im 23 tomorrow!! Im going to start getting grey hairs soon. Where does the time go? I don’t feel 23 and maybe that’s because I don’t act it =). What does a 23 years old act like anyways? Do I have to start being all proper and serious boring person now =). I don’t have any big plans for my b-day. Probably just street contacting in the morning with some lessons at night, lol =). I think there are like 3 different families that want me and my companion over tomorrow for my birthday so it will be interesting on how we work this out. 3 meals in one day is way to much. Maybe we can go to one for breakfast the next for lunch\dinner and then the next house or dessert or something =). This Saturday I find out if I get transferred to a new area or not. Next week you will get an email on Tuesday instead of Monday because we have 8 new elders coming in so it’s a big transfer and we chance or resting day to Tuesday. Im pretty excited to see where im going to go. I could become companions with someone from my own group which would be crazy. Since we have such a big group 10 of us will be with someone from our own group. The reason it’s crazy is because we have only been out for 3 months and we will already become senior companions or train. Usually you have at least 6 months until that happens. I actually hope that I get with someone from my group because I know it will only help my language. It will force me to try to understand and talk, even if I do teach some weird false doctrine the first month because I don’t understand thing =). It should make for a lot of awkward weird conversations with people =).
Well I don’t have that much more to say. Tonight at 7 we are going to a circus as a district which should be a blast. There are 8 of us in my district right now and this is our last p-day together so we decided to go to the circus. We have front row tickets and im pretty sure we can ride an elephant and have a picture with a bear. All of us are pretty excited. The circus is suppose to be pretty good. It’s the first time it is here in Albania and it’s an Italian circus but I don’t care if I cant understand anything. As long as there is cool stuff I can look and it’s entertaining."
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