September 1, 2014

Hey!

So this last week finally felt like we are all recovered, well everyone else.  So far I've avoided all of the sickness going around! Hopefully I won't get sick anytime soon! We have some awesome lessons with our investigators this past week, a couple set backs, but mostly progression and it is so exciting to see!

We have several investigators who are almost ready for baptism! They are progressing they just have a couple more steps to take and it is such an honor to be a part of their conversion and being able to teach them and bring the Spirit to testify to them of the truthfulness of the things that we teach! We also have some awesome lessons planned on how to help our investigators!

Finding new investigators is still really slow! We started several courses like English, Bible study and a program to stop smoking, but so far no success with those, not many people show up, if any. And we are also doing other things like talking to people in the street and we are gonna start doing a lot more tracting pretty soon here (knocking on doors). We are excited and are ready to be absolutely exhausted! :) It was quite a set back with everyone being sick, and it was actually in the whole zone, but now we are back on an uphill slope so it's good and we are really excited.

I think that the work here in Peja is about to accelerate and I am so excited to be one of the missionaries to help build it up and hopefully within the next few months we can make it into a branch, which would make the first District in Kosovo. It's some really exciting stuff!

I don't have much else to talk about as far as last week/the work. And I don't really have any cool or funny stories haha. So... Well we have found a couple of different kinds of centipedes in our house. I'm convinced that at least one of the two is deadly poisonous haha so naturally that freaks me right out. but most of the time I just forget about them, it's when I remember them that I have to check inside my covers for them...waiting to kill me....just kidding. kind of.

Oh just remembered a quick story, well barely a story. We were at a members house teaching his nephew, who is one of our investigators, and it started raining towards the end of the lesson. So it's like close to 9 o'clock at night and we politely decline many of their offers to call a taxi because it was just a little rain.... then the thunder struck and the rain started coming down a significant amount more... So we start walking home out of the apartment building and within 3 or 4 seconds we are absolutely soaked. and I mean soaked, all the way through. My socks were even soaking wet, and that was just in the first few seconds. It's only like a 10 minute walk, but the wind made it seem a lot longer haha. So we walked through a storm, which to me feels like part of the mission experience haha.

Anyways, I guess that's it for the week, oh and I hit my 7th month mark :O. Crazy stuff! Love you guys, the Church is True, and you should go read some scriptures and pray ;)

Elder Sajmëns