Letters from the Baltic

  Hello Everyone: Short Version:       My trio companionship in Vilnius split up when Elder Evans came down from Latvia to be companions with Elder Yeyna. We met a Muslim man on a our bus ride to get our vaccinations who was so excited to hear about the gospel. He's going to live in the rural wilderness of Poland so hopefully he reads the Book of Mormon we gave him.  Long Version:       We finally found a list of members in our ward so we can start setting up lessons and service opportunities with them. The privacy laws here make it awkward for missionaries to keep track of people legally but we found the member list that we're mostly sure is legal for us to have possession of. If not, oops. It's been really usually to have people's phone numbers and not having to try and find them through Facebook.       A funny thing we found out this week is that members here don't really enjoy having "lessons" with the missionarie...

  Hello Everybody! Short version : The last couple weeks have been really good, but really hard. Many of the members and youth in the ward don't love to call over Zoom with us. I don't blame them for not wanting to join yet another Zoom call, but it'd be a lot nicer if they did. I've been going on a little health spree so if I come back totally shredded, you'll know why.  Long Version : Most of the experienced missionaries headed home this week. Everyone who knew the language really well is gone and now it's time for everybody to put on their big boy pants. We have to translate meetings into English for sacrament or other important meetings that members attend. Since we still don't understand most of what the members are saying, we are going to be doing a lot of guessing. Worst case scenario, we figure out what topic the speaker is talking about and give our own little improvised talk until we can understand the speaker again.        Something fun my compan...