2-22-2010

" So i got transferred but I'm not the most excited camper,lol. I got moved to a different area here in Tirana. I was really hoping to move out of the main city into a small town down south because that was an option but i some how got stuck here in the city. I'm not completely disappointed though because i have an awesome new companion. His name is elder Allen. He is from Utah and he loves sports and is a really good elder. This transfer will be 6 weeks and then after i think he is going to go Assistant to the President and i will train in the area. Today im still in my old area but tomorrow i will move into the new house. It's pretty far from where im at now and it is in the complete ghetto, lol. Im in Tirana e Re (New Tirana) right now and it equals to about the ghetto of Vegas and Ali Demi is my new area so it probably equals the ghetto of New York or worse, lol. However, i here the house is awesome. It is two floor's and i guess i have my own bathroom so thats pretty sweet =). Maybe one day i will make it out of Tirana, lol. If not that's all right ill just make the most of it.

I cant remember but i think i emailed you saying it snowed here. It has been beautiful this past week. It has been really rainy but the weather is still nice. Today is a little cold but not to bad. We just got done bowling,lol. I bowled a 162 woot woot!! =). They also had the Olympics on so we were all watching ice skatting, lol. All 8 of us were hooked on it. The only worldly stuff i'll see for the rest of my mission probably.

We did a little concecration week this week and we had 23 lessons and a Julia, an investigator, will hopefully be baptized in March!! All of us Elders joke around when we get over 20 lessons because in America or a lot of other missions people get like 30-50 lessons a week but europe is a little lower. This week we got 23 and then the two other sets of elders in our district got 23 and 22 and then the sisters got 27. So our district tore it up this week. We were so excited when we all got over 20 lessons. Sad thing is that now im leaving and another elder and one of the sisters got transferred as well so this awesome district got split up =(. The other elder is actually moving with me over to the 3rd branch district though so i am moving into another awesome group of elders. Hopefully all that made sense. Sometimes i use missionary terms and im not sure if you understand me =). If not just ask and ill clarify next time. So i have decided to do a word of the week thing with you. I will tell you a funny or cool sounding word in this case that i learned this week. This week the word is Karkalec and it means grasshoppper."