Dear family,

So this week I practiced the hymns I was to play in sacrament meeting a lot more than usual, and I was able to play the ones I practiced pretty well.  There was one that I didn't play well, but it was a hymn that they had just added that I didn't know about beforehand.  Then, in third hour, I directed the meeting since I was the district leader and the missionaries were teaching that class.  It was focused on how the members could do missionary work, and was basically supposed to be motivation for them to do missionary work.  I think it went well.

This week was a lot better than last week.  Probably in part to me not being sick and not having a specialized training.  We found 3 new investigators, so that was cool.  There was another protest kind of thing going on last Friday in Tirana.  Apparently it was just a peaceful gathering where they honored the 3 "victims" that died in the violent protest just a week before.  It still resulted in nobody coming to our English class.

The other day, we were walking home to get some stuff after a lesson we had had, and there were these kids that we said hi to.  After passing them, when we had our backs turned to them, they start yelling bad words and other stuff at us.  So for fun, I turned around and walked back to them.  2 of the 3 went running off to hide and ditched their friend.  I basically asked him if his friends knew what they were saying and he seemed pretty freaked out when I started talking to him.  Then, as we were leaving, the same kids were in the road, and the other two go darting off while the third one just walked alongside us.  The other two seemed scared to death.  It was pretty funny.  Even a lot of older kids are afraid to taunt us whenever we are looking at them.  They all wait to say stuff until we have our backs turned to them.  They are all pretty quiet if we ever turn back and start talking to them.  It's funny.

Love,
Elder Wallentine