Letters from the Baltic

  Short Version: Lithuania had it's first Zone Conference since Covid began. Ignas asked for a Book of Mormon and we started teaching him, WOOT! I gave my first talk in Lithuanian and it actually wasn't too bad. People seemed to understand what I was saying. Long Version: So most of last week was me and Elder Sieverts either prepping, attending, or cleaning up Zone Conference. Since I didn't know before my mission here is a brief lesson on mission terminology. Each companionship is assigned an area. Each district is comprised of multiple companionships (4-5ish). And then every zone contains multiple different districts. In Lithuania, my district and area boundaries happen to be the same. We have 3 companionships in the Vilnius Lithuania district. Each city is an area. We have 1 other district in Lithuania which is made of all the other cities in Lithuania. Our zone is the entire country of Lithuania. For Zone conference, everyone in the country came to Vilnius. We only have...

  Hello Everybody! Short Version:  We did NOT get deported which is excellent. We have a 3 month visa, and then we are expecting to receive 2 year living permits once they can be processed. We've been having more in-person lessons which is so fun. It's so much better to teach someone who's sitting next to you instead of over the phone or Zoom. There's a legitimate connection now that we can give them fist bumps  Long Version : As everyone knows, missionaries sometimes get involved in some shenanigans. Last week me and Elder Sieverts thought it'd be funny to send an email to another elder in our district that he was getting deported. We made it sound very professional and real to get the full effect. At the very end of the email, we wrote something like "hahaha just kidding. It's just Elder Smith and Elder Sieverts, we love you." We sent it and it went to bed thinking nothing of it. However, apparently when he saw the email he bought it and believed it ...