Dear family,

I finished Jesus the Christ the other day.  We also gave a copy to the Orthodox Priest that seems to be meeting us and getting as many books from us as he can.  I do wonder what he'll think when he reads the section about the great apostasy.  The last meeting we had with him, I shared a scripture in D&C that talked about various items about the plan of salvation, and he had a question that was difficult for me and my companion to answer.  Sometimes it's hard to explain some of these things, but as soon as you explain it the right way, it makes lots of sense.

Anyways, the other day I was looking at this Doctrine and Covenants study manual and read a little section that talked about how God is able to do anything, but sometimes he doesn't do things because we're not ready for those things to happen.  So that can be motivation to try to be ready to get whatever he wants to give us.

Anyways, last week, even though we were down in Fier for a day and a half for trainings, we ended up getting more success than last week.  We finally were able to contact this referral some members gave us, and we found a new investigator when we were tracting last Tuesday.  Hopefully we continue to have success.  We just finished another transfer, and everybody in the mission but 4 people stayed the same.  So no changes here in Durrës.  The other day, I called up this inactive member, said I was a missionary, and he hung up right away.  I have a feeling he's not interested.  We are having a hard time contacting and finding the couple families we got from the branch president.  We will be starting an English course on December 1, and up to now, we've heard responses from 6-7 people, which is quite a good amount of students.  Hopefully that will result in a couple new investigators.

Last Thursday, after the training, we ended up going to Lushnjë for the night to work there.  So I got a little more time there.  I don't know if I had said this before, but the people in Germany said that Lushnjë should be opened back up a while ago.  So there are some missionaries there that work in Lushnjë, but they still work in Fier as well.  They wanted Lushnjë open for the sake of the few members we did have there.  Hopefully something happens down there in Lushnjë and work starts moving again.  As for now, it's about as slow as ever.

Anyways, not too much else happened this week.  Hope all is well back at home.  Bëj të fala të gjithëve!  (give everyone my regards)

Love,
Elder Wallentine