Elder Guymon's Awesome Adriatic Adventures: We're in Lezhe!!

February 15, 2016

Hello from Lezhe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's right! After much trial and tribulation it came to pass that Elder Guymon finally lives in the city of Lezhe! Quite an awesome week really!

Don't really know if you all care to know about this but my boy ex-Elder Holm is officially engaged! That is my first friend to get engaged! Pretty weird! Anyway...

This week I had the horrible experience of having to deal with more church executive stuff and tithing! Whew it makes me really appreciate the people in America that do this stuff because it was not fun here! We were running around putting money into banks and signing papers that needed authorized signatures and I didn't feel like I was authorized! It was wild! But the old ship Zion floats on!

Then we finally decided on the apartment we were going to get and so everything was all lined up and then a senior couple came out to do a final check and to sign the contract and we almost didn't get the house! There was just this one little thing that we didn't think was a big deal that they really wanted solved it was just so crazy. The worst part was we were like soooo done with living in Shkoder and the sisters had to start moving into our house so we had packed everything into our car that morning and were set on moving to Lezhe. There was a moment where we were like man we are homeless right now, what are we going to do if we don't get this house? Luckily we got it though!!!! Moved in that night!!! It's a pretty dang nice house, everything in it is brand new and we are the first ones to live in it! Also we have bunk beds which is ballin!

Tuesday we had district meeting and it was super good! Elder Lesi is such a stud! He gave a great training about how we have all had our own spiritual experiences and answers to get us out on our missions so we know we need to be out here so now we just have to work. It was great! It was also super cool catching up with Sister Jackson! It was kinda like when you were friends with someone one like 4 years ago and you finally meet up again! We just had so many things that had changed! She's the first person that I have served around that was in my MTC group since getting trained! We started in the same place but we have had so many different things happen!

This week we have met with some super ballin investigators! First of all G. is doing good! Not quite as good as he was doing last week but good! So for 2 lessons in a row he brought friends to lessons and it was good but his friends weren't really seeking for the truth or anything. Actually one lesson he brought 2 friends who were both atheist and it basically turned into this session of like question and answer with us trying to prove to them there really is a God. It was pretty cool because they were asking some really good questions that everyone has in their life but I just really saw the scriptural passage you shall not be confounded before men apply to me in the moment because I beat them in anything they said it was kinda awesome actually. It was a pretty cool experience for me even though of course I know I wasn't the one doing it at all it was cool to be apart of that! But anyway we finally got to meet with him alone again so we could follow up on a bunch of commitments and stuff and he actually hasn't been doing super well with them and we could kinda just tell it was interesting! We had this super long lesson where there were a couple of misunderstandings for various reasons but in the end he finally confessed to us that he was addicted to smoking and needs help so now we'll be able to help him even better! So not exactly what we were hoping for but still a big step forward!

We also met with this kid named L. who is a stud!! We had an awesome first lesson with him where he talked about how much he loves Jesus and wants to follow him and do what's right and how he felt that what we are saying was true! Then the 2nd lesson we sat down with him and the first thing he said (holding the book of mormon) was "This book is awesome!" So obviously amazing 2nd lesson as well! He had read 116 pages of it and said he got an answer that it was true! It was pretty amazing -he shared an experience saying that his dad hasn't had work and has been coming home drunk but that he prayed that his dad would find a good job and stop coming home drunk and it happened!! He said he knew it was because he was reading the book of mormon!!! Pretty amazing honestly!

Then Sunday was super awesome because Kelvin (the member here) got to come to church with us! He was actually going to keep going to Tirana for a bit because of some drama that happened with the stake but the roads to Tirana were blocked on Sunday because John Kerry came to Albania! Pretty random but awesome! It was a great Sunday! Elder Lesi had 6 investigators in church essentially doubling the size of the branch!

Today for Pday we went to the beach city of Shengjin. It's only 10 minutes from Lezhe. My first time going to the beach on my mission!

Other than that not really too exciting of a Valentines day! I tried to celebrate in the best way I could! Pretty crazy last Valentines day I was in the MTC with a bunch of Elders who were missing their girlfriends super bad! super funny though! :)

Well, have a great week all you! I get my first full week of only working in Lezhe which is going to be awesome! Also hopefully interviews with President this week so that will be great!

Love you all!