2-14-2011

"Things here have been quiet. No protests this week, or at least none that i heard about. My foot has been feeling better. On friday we ran into that big group of kids again playing football in an alley way and i stopped and played with them for about 15 minutes which was a blast but since i had my church shoes my foot was a little sore afterwards. I keep heating it and hopefully it will be %100 soon. As far as missionary work goes it was an awesome week. We have this awesome member here called Zef. I have a photo i will make sure to send it next week. Anyways, we went to his work, where he is a guard at a factory, and we played dominoes with him and had an awesome lesson with him because he will be going to the Temple in Germany for the first time here in a few months!! He's pretty excited and i'm excited for him as well. We also visit another member called Alma who is living in Italy but her and her daughters are here visiting for a little. We hung out with them last night and she has a daughter who is an awesome violin player. I also had to do a baptismal interview for the older women that we did service for the last couple of weeks. Her name is Prenda and she's awesome. I think i might have mentioned her in an earlier email but i can't remember. She will be baptised on Saturday and we are all excited about it because then the following Saturday Refik will be baptised and i believe his family is going to come to the baptism as well!! He would have been baptized this week with Prenda but it will be better if we wait one more week. I'm excited for him he is legit =). We only had 6 people at church this Sunday but it still went really well. The church is slowly growing here and we will be moving into a way nicer church building within the next few months and i think it will help people see that the church is here to stay. We have transfer calls next week and i'm actually hoping i stay. Elder Merepeza and Morava, the other Elders here, should stay and i love being in the same district as two local Albanians. If i do stay i'll get a new companion and i think my comp. i have now is going to the office. English class starts tomorrow and i'm hoping we have a good amount of people. I talked to my old comp. in Tirana and they just started an English class up and there were about 170 people i guess. A lot of the return students were wondering where i was. They asked where the giant missionary was,lol. Here i will be happy if we have 10 =). The church can't hold more than 30 so hopefully we have less than that,lol."