Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Sveiki-

Hey fam n friends
This week was way cool. After we taught in the school they asked us to come back so we came again the next day. This time in the middle of the lesson Elder Cox asked if we could say a prayer. But he didn't say, "Can WE say a prayer" he said "Can Elder Cooke say a prayer?" So yea I prayed in a high school last week, twice. (The next class the TEACHER asked us to pray)
Also cool this week was District Conference. Because we dont have a stake, it is the equivilant of a stake conference. Elder Senkans our area 70 from latvia came down and spoke. He spoke in russian so he had our District President translate into Lithuanian for him. President and sister Dance spoke also (they had translators translate into Lithuanian and all the Russian speakers had headsets where somebody was translating into Russian)
My favorite part about conference was speaking to all the members. I LOVE speaking to the native Lithuanians. They are so willing to help me learn. I ended up having constant conversation in Lithuanian for about 6 hours strait with different members and investigators. It was such a great help that I have already seen results of betters speaking and understanding from it.
Me and Elder Cox are doing really well. We have been working as hard as we can and we both have seen so much growth this transfer because of it. We are trying harder each day to become better missionarys and better people.
I hit my 6 month mark yesterday and it kinda hit me in the face. I can't believe i have been out on my mission for half a year already. I dont really know how I feel about it. A bunch of mixed feelings I guess. But I do know if gave me another reason to reset my bearings and get my priorities in order. I want to work harder and learn more so I can be able to make more of a difference here in the Baltics. If anything I just want to be what I was called to be and thats a servant of the Lord.
Thanks fam for everything you do.
I Love you all,

su meile-
Vyresnysis Kukas