Dear family,

Last Monday, we had gone out and played basketball with some guys the zone leaders had met during the week.  They were pretty good, and all of us were pretty out of practice.  It was fun though.  The other day, we went to this Chinese restaurant here in Tirana, and it was pretty good.  I had to request chop sticks.  So now I've eaten Chinese food in Albania.  I've pretty much gotten used to my new area now.  Making it to and from the church doesn't seem like as much of a hassle anymore, and the shower doesn't seem too bad anymore either.  I think I know where quite a few things are now as well.  We've been tracting quite a bit, and we've managed to find a couple new investigators.  One new investigator we found was due to a call we got from a member in another branch here in Tirana telling us about a friend he had that was interested in meeting with us.  We've met with him twice so far, but the only problem is he doesn't want to meet us at his house.  There are also not any real good places we can meet people here in Laprakë other than people's homes.  So that makes things a bit difficult.

There are a couple kids that are about 17 years old who have showed interest in meeting with us, but they have been busy with work and school.  We've been trying to meet with them, but it's hard to set up meetings with them.  I read the book Our Search for Happiness again recently.  It took me like 2 days.  It was pretty good.  I'm reading the Book of Mormon again, and I just finished the part where Abinadi is talking to King Noah.

I talked to one of the elders from Shkodër recently who was down here in Tirana for a branch presidency meeting (he's the branch president in Shkodër) and it sounds like things have been pretty hectic up there.  They have been trying to move out of their current house and the landlord lady is being a real pain.  They had already paid the rent for March (that she had demanded) and then she was trying to kick them out of the house and steal their keys.  At some point she had apparently locked them in their house and I think she had also locked a bunch of mission-owned things in her house.  So she's pretty much been going insane by the sounds of things.  That was my landlord back when I was in Shkodër.  Meanwhile, recently there was an emergency transfer with the other companionship up in Shkodër because they were driving each other crazy.  Luckily, they have recently had a couple baptisms in Shkodër still.  Hopefully things chill out up there.

Anyways, I can't really think of all that much to write about for this week, so I'll leave it at this.

Love,
Elder Wallentine