Dear family,

This week was pretty cool.  We found a total of 5 new investigators.  There are quite a few people I could really see potentially progressing.  It seems like we have a ton of really good people to teach that can never meet with us.  But we just keep finding more cool people.  So that's good.  A lot of our recent success has been coming through tracting.

This Saturday will be about as cool as the last time we had General Conference because right afterwards, we'll be getting transfer calls from President Neil for where we'll be heading.  I think there's a good chance of me leaving this area.  Sometimes, I really just want to leave the area, other times I really want to stay.  I think it's just because I don't have too much time here in 4th branch, so I am just starting to get to know people.  I think that there is a good chance that no matter what happens, I could be heading off to my last area of my mission with this transfer.

Last Wednesday, I went on exchanges with Elder Smith, one of my MTC companions.  He's one of the inside zone leaders now along with Elder Moyes, another person in my MTC group.  They're in our district right now.  I was also in the same district as Elder Smith for 3 months down in Vlorë, but we never went on an exchange because the district leader was anti-exchange.  So that was lame.  So we finally got our exchange last week.

Yesterday, we were walking home to plan and wrap up the day, and this group of boys yelled out and told us to go over.  So we went and talked to them.  One of them was talking to me and saying how they smoke weed and stuff like that.  At some point I asked the kid if he ran, and he said "Jo, përtoj" which means "No, I loaf".  We had a good conversation until we look over and this lady carrying groceries trips on this rope (they use these huge thick ropes here for speed bumps it seems).  Somewhat to my surprise, half the boys ran down to help her out.  It was kind of cool.  I think most missionaries' views on boys ages 12-18ish is that they are all immature, lazy, and rude.  Something like that, but I think many missionaries forget how weird and easy to make fun of we are as missionaries.  We are young American boys dressing up in a similar fashion as the CIA or FBI walking around a foreign country talking to everybody in bad Albanian for 2 years.  I usually enjoy talking to groups of boys.  It always adds a bit of fun.

Anyways, I think that's it for the week.  Have a good spring break!

Love,
Elder Wallentine