Letters from the Baltic

  Hello Everyone, Short Version:  We're now allowed to do what has been termed 'Incidental street contacting.' Street contacting is where you stop people and talk to them; 'incidental street contacting' is street contacting but it has some sort of coincidence to it. The goal is just to not talk to every single person we see, more just the people we feel inspired to talk to. So far, it's been super weird especially since neither Elder Sieverts or I have ever street contacted before. It's going to be a very interesting learning experience. Also it's freezing now. The weather decided to switch from sweaty hot to ice cold. The humidity eats right through all your clothes.  Thrift shopping with Elder Sieverts. None of the pants fit me.  More thrift shopping, sad to admit I didn't purchase this trench coat. Tacos with all of Vilnius Missionaries Long Version : Transfers rolled around and Elder Sieverts and I are staying together until at least November 16t...

  Hello Everybody, Short Version: The fall rainy season is starting. Sometimes there is a continual rain that goes all day and makes me feel like a vegetable in the produce aisle that gets that slight, yet continual shower of mist. Our friend Ignas is still progressing. We sang the Star Spangled Banner with him this week because he wanted to show us how he knew the words and the music to our National Anthem. Now me and Elder Sieverts need to learn the Lithuanian anthem.  Long Version: This week went by super fast. We were bouncy around from appointment to appointment, which makes things a lot more fun. There's nothing worse than having no lessons and no appointments because that means we have to do Facebook all day. Ugh.       We started running Facebook ads in Lithuania and they did super well. (Shoutout to Alan Cicotte). The basically generated 50 self referrals so that's what kept us so busy. Excluding last week, I have received 1 referral since being in...