Dear Mom,

Today I exchanged the money in my wallet for lekë, so I should be able to finish up my shopping today.  Then, one of the couples are taking us down to Saranda for our trip, so that will cut our costs significantly.  I'll keep an eye out for my card, but there's no real problem there.  Hitchhiking probably isn't the safest way to travel, but when we're 4 Americans that get confused with the CIA and FBI, I think other people would be more afraid of us than us of them.  However, we probably won't do it again.

So, we're probably not going to be getting any more baptisms while I'm here, talking for my companionship.  We do have 3 people who will probably be getting baptized shortly after I leave though.  So that's cool.  There were 3 baptisms last weekend, there should be more this next weekend, and then there are 8 scheduled to happen in October.

This next week should be good.  Our house is now in working order, so we can focus more on missionary work again.  Last week we had water, but we were still kind of recovering from a month without water.  So this next week should be a lot better.

I'm not too sure if I will be sending you all emails next week due to the trip to Saranda that we're doing, but if anybody is sending emails, I'll send one too.  I just don't really know what's going on next week.  I'm hoping that I will somehow be able to stop by Vlorë sometime before returning home so I can see one of the boys I baptized while I was there.  I'll probably ask President Ford today.  I thought about it last night, and it seems like I put together a plan that sounds reasonable.  So hopefully it works out.

Anyways, thanks for everything and I'll see you all in about a week.

Love,
Elder Wallentine