8-30-2010

"This week has flown bye!! Transfers were on Tuesday and I'm now with my new companion. He is way funny and it's going to be an awesome transfer. I have already seen a lot of families that i haven't seen since i left my first area so it's good to see them and now be able to speak Albanian and have a conversation with them, lol. We are pretty busy handing out English fliers getting ready for our next English course to start up in October. We have a couple awesome investigators and a mom and her daughter who has a baptism date. There is also a kid that i was working with about 9 months ago that now has a baptism date so i couldn't be more happy. I don't know why but the area I'm in now the people just seem to be a lot nicer. It's a lot easier to talk to people and have a good conversation with them. Like i said I'm just glad i'm in 4th branch. Tonight we're going over to the branch presidents house and eating dinner with them and having FHE. It's pretty crazy that I've been in Tirana my entire mission so far. I'm the only elder within my group that hasn't been to the outside of Tirana. There are actually a lot of small outside cities where we have elders but it doesn't look like i will get to serve there until my last 4 months of my mission. I will be here for 6 months and then i think president will move me way down south to Vlore which i would love or he might send me back to my first area where i served here in Tirana which i would also love. It doesn't really matter though because everywhere i go there are people to talk to and doors to knock. This week while talking to people about English course two guys stopped and wanted to know more about the church. One said he knew we could help him stop smoking so we are meeting him tomorrow and we will start teaching him and talk to him about a stop smoking program we have. Another man just wanted a Book of Mormon and wanted to learn more about our church so he should be giving us a call the next few days and hopefully it will turn out. I'm not really sure what to write. Sorry my emails have been short lately."