Dear family,

So, even though I'm now finally serving in Tirana, I think I'm still somewhat outside of Tirana. It is somewhat considered a part of Tirana, but I am in a place called Laprakë.  As far as church goes, luckily we have transportation from the church that takes people from our area to church on Sundays, so that speeds up the process a ton.  There is also a city called Kamez that used to have missionaries but was closed because work wasn't really progressing at all.  So there are some members out there that we go out to visit as well.  None of us have bikes here, although the elders in Lushnjë had recently gotten permission to get bikes.  It would have had to come out of personal money, and they would be left in Lushnjë, so they didn't buy them.  The only missionaries here that have cars are the assistants, Outside Zone Leaders, and the office elders.  They are really the only missionaries that go traveling enough to need a car.  The zone leaders here in Tirana just go around doing exchanges with people in Tirana while the outside zone leaders have to go to every other city in Albania.

So yesterday, we went tracting, and we found this family of people who seemed interested in learning more.  There was this older lady that was kind of ruining the lesson, but overall it went well.  I think we'll be meeting them again sometime this week.  So we'll see how that goes.  Apparently before I got here, the missionaries here didn't do too much tracting because the one who left didn't like tracting at all.  The thing is, it seems like this place has tons of places to do some tracting.

We had zone conference last Thursday, so that was cool.  We had a tower building contest, and my group ended up winning.  That was cool.  Anyways, there's not too much else that happened this week.  I'm getting more adjusted to the new area and everything.  I cleaned up a couple areas this morning in the house so I could have a bigger study area.  I also organized some of my stuff around the house.  The only thing I really don't like about the house at the moment is the shower.  It is probably the worst shower I've had so far.  The only shower that could probably compare would be the one we had in the pig farm in Belgium that smelt weird.  The one at the pig farm was probably better until we lost warm water.  Then I would rather have this one.  So at least we have warm water.  The water pressure is just horrible.

Anyways, that's about all that happened this past week.  Hear from ya'll next week.

Love,
Elder Wallentine