May 31, 2010

Dear Family,


Well, this week we have excellent news...Nene has a BAPTISMAL DATE! We brought a member to her house and we talked about her baptism, and she said that she wanted to be baptized....so we set a date! We hope she will be baptized June 19.

Well, we have lost about half of our investigators... We met with Ana and Aida on Tuesday. Actually, Aida brought another friend! Her name is Elona also...but all of them are leaving to their respective cities this week. I don't know if we will meet them again. We ran into Ana last night in the road. She stopped and talked to us. They are in the middle of final exams right now so it is very busy, and then they leave. On Tuesday we gave them a semenary student manual to help them in their Book of Mormon reading over the summer because we won't be able to answer their questions....they are in the Lord's hands now....

I'm not sure what more to say about this week. Tell Grandma Nevins that I got her letter and I hope her leg feels better. Also tell Sister Jensen that I wrote a letter and it will be sent shortly. I was able to write 4 letters last week and I am probably going to try to send most of them at the same time...because I have anothe 10 letters to write! I am trying to get them all written but it may take a couple of weeks. I typically only have a couple hours on P-day to do that kind of thing, so It will be a slow process.

Anna, I am so proud of you! You have worked so hard and now it is all working out! Congratulations! Thank you for the audio recordings last week. It is always good to hear your voices. It would be nice if all of you got a chance send a recording sometime and upday me on how everything is going.

My companion says that my Albanian is improving a lot. another missionary in the district gave a talk yesterday. He was in my MTC group. My companion said that I have surpassed him now, and that now he is kind of worried about his albanian... I don't know, but I think my albanian has gotten better. For the most part, my companion and I simply speak Albanian with eachother. We have gone nearly the entire day without speaking any english...it has been helping a lot.

Congratulations on the Baptism. It is great news to hear!

Well, I love you all. Thank you for all of your continued support. It is hard sometimes, but I am doing all that I can...what more can I ask of myself than that? Well, have a great week!