Dear family,

This week we went on exchanges with the office elders.  That was fun.  I spent a day with Elder Holmes in the office, and it ended up being quite eventful.  In the morning we were going to go see the old Yugoslavian embassy with President Ford.  The old embassy is going to be our new church here in Tirana.  It is really, really big.  It will be great to have that.  From what I hear, it's going to be a temporary kind of thing until they get a stake center that will be a ways away.  They're just hoping that in 5-10 years when they have the stake center that most people will have cars to be able to go the distance to church.  Also, that morning, we got a phone call saying that the 3 computers at the institute room at the church were stolen.  We were hoping to get there to see windows and stuff broken so we knew that the person who stole the computers didn't have keys, but the only thing broken was the gate hiding the computers.  So that was interesting.

There's an inactive family that has been coming back to church recently.  Elder Smith and I had started meeting with them, and now the mom and dad have been coming to church.  So far, they are yet to come together, but they have both come twice.  They both came to a baptism yesterday, so that was cool.  They have been coming to 2nd branch lately, but yesterday the dad came to 4th branch, so that's great that he's coming back to his own branch.  It's good to see them back.

This week felt really busy, so we were pretty tired by the end of it.  The last couple days, we hardly got any lunch at all.  It's nice to be busy, but sometimes we need a little break.  I could probably take a week long vacation if I could take back all my lost lunch time throughout my mission.  That'd be cool, but probably wouldn't be allowed.

Anyways, today we are planning on meeting 2 of our new investigators followed by three boys who we're hoping to give a baptismal date today.  We'll see how all that goes.  Have a good week!

Love,
Elder Wallentine