Man not a whole lot happened that was super special this week so I apologize if this letter is short it's just kinda same old same old happening up here! By the end of these 2 years these letters may become just a few sentences I guess we'll see! Anyway to start again I have some questions to answer:
No we still do not have any progressing investigators or investigators we are meeting with regularly and we also aren't able to meet regularly with any of the inactive members either. It's pretty rough I'm not going to lie! Luckily I'm with Elder Holm so I'm still having a good time but if I didn't have a good companion I would be having a pretty rough go of it right now!
Once again this week we just have so many people who we plan to meet the night before and then don't show up at the time we planned to meet them. We only taught 7 lessons this week but if we had actually taught everyone we planned for it would probably be triple that! It just sucks that we finally get someones number from sitting out street contacting all day and then that number doesn't even turn into anything! Heck even if we actually do get one lesson with them, we have only had one second lesson since being here so work is slowwwwwww. For how many hours we spend finding per day.... I don't know, a lot. It's pretty much all finding except for if we get a lesson and of course lunch and stuff. Probably about 6 hours plus a day not totally sure. The members haven't given us a single recommendation yet much to our dismay. We have tried to do lessons with them and tried to get them but the problem is that there are so few members that they have already all been through that routine so many times. English class is not exactly my favorite thing to do, but as a general standpoint pretty much every mission isn't a fan of english class just because you really don't know what to teach like we don't have any sort of curriculum or anything!
One thing that was super annoying that happened was that the internet stopped working in the church after Bishop Gjini (my old bishop of 2nd ward) came and was supposed to be upgrading it and of course since everyone in Prishtina now knows that I used to work with computers I was the one in charge of making it work. Normally I would be super excited about it because I really enjoy working with computers and it was an awesome service I could do for the branch but I ended up spending all day on the phone with salt lake and the internet company trying to get this thing fixed in different ways and nothing was working and it just got super frustrating and salt lake was saying the problem was the isp and the isp was saying it was salt lake and I was the one in the middle -- so pretty much a whole day of work was wasted on that which sucked! Got to practice some more of that patience I'm learning though! :)
Another thing that was pretty funny that happened was this teenage muslim came up and tried to sorta argue with us which is kinda annoying and happens everyone once in a while, just teenage kids trying to be funny. Personally I don't really mind but some missionaries get super worked up about it. But this one was extra funny because this kid was suuuupppperrr muslim looking like short pants, nasty not full beard and the short cut hair but best of all his voice was super high pitch sounding and so Elder Holm and I just couldn't take him seriously the whole time and it was just sooo funny! He also tried to pull out random "bible" verses to try to prove us wrong and like they were things that didn't even exist which is pretty normal for them to do. Basically all we do when they do that stuff is just agree with them and talk about how we all have one God and respect all religions.
Later in the week there was a pretty big beer fest that happened over the weekend and that was a pretty big work killer. There were a lot of people from outside of Kosovo and no one was really interested in talking to us. And there were a couple threats made against it so we had to stay away.
Then Sunday we actually had an American member working with K4 here come to church so that was awesome! We had to go get him at the curb and escort him to the church for security reasons and stuff which I thought was pretty funny! He was super cool though. He was really surprised that we were allowed to fully proselyte here because I guess it's still sanctioned as a combat active zone by the EU! So that's something I never thought I would be doing! Proselyting in a combat active zone!
Anyway I apologize for the lack of big things happening but for real it's just a whole lot of work with not a ton of results but that's ok because I'm learning and I know that I'm just putting blessings in the bank! Honestly I can't explain how much you learn out on a mission like every second is a learning experience I swear! I love you all and I hope you all know I'm doing great! Have an awesome week! Probably won't be as awesome as mine though!
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