Labas!

ALright, Preparation Day last week we played tennis on a dirt (clay?) court, which was fun, I've never done that before. When Elder Dellinger was getting his haircut, a man came and started talking to me, and asked about God or something and then started talking to a woman there as well. Eventually the whole place was talking about what/who God is, and what we need to do to be saved. It was crazy, they got pretty into it, not quite on track, but at least it got them thinking about what's necessary in life. We taught a lesson with Chandler, an Indian we've taught a couple times last transfer, and he said he's been thinking a lot about baptism and whether it's necessary so we focused our lesson on that and hopefully he can get an answer to his prayers and know that that's what he needs to do.

We got a new oven for our apartment and installed it, it was kinda like tetris to get it in and the old one out, but we did it and nothing exploded, so it's all good.

We got flipped off three times this week, one of them, flipped us off, yelled the accompanying profanity, then put up both hands in the bird and yelled three times in succession the wonderful english words that corresspond with that gesture. It always makes me wonder why people have so much anger towards us, we just walk around and say hello, is that really that offensive? Oh, well.

We saw a few crazy/cool or even crazy-cool things this week:
A guy with sideburns that were about Wolverine length and then grew off his face a solid two or three inches, way intense and a bit frightening, but impressive.
A mercedes-benz bicycle, yes, bicycle.
A Rolls Royce.

A lady shh'd us when we said hello, because she was rocking her baby to sleep.

A group of hoolies, teenagers, but that's the legit word for them in Lithuanian, said 'Laba Diena' to us, so we of course said 'Laba Diena' bakc and then when they were past us, they shrieked and clapped their hands together in a very successful way, appearing as if they had some sort of bet if we would speak lithuanian or not, pretty funny.

I went on an exchange with Elder Lindelis, the district leader here in Vilnius. We taught a guy, who was very open, had some unique beliefs about like spiritual levels and energy force stuff, but we had a fairly good lesson. Then after the lesson, he told Elder Lindelis he had heart problems by looking at his hand, and low self esteem which is why he has acne. He then attempted to get us in on some pyramid scheme here in LIthuania, and spread it to America. He tried for a solid 15 or 20 min, but I just had a bad feeling and got that it was a pyramid scheme without really knowing for sure what was going on. Crazy.

Skidmontas, the less active we teach piano lessons, came to Church on Sunday. The past couple of lessons he's really realized what he needs to change and the importance of things like prayer and scripture reading daily. We didn't even need to bribe him with a song this week, so that was way exciting.

Zone Conference was sweet. We talked about our purpose as missionaries and the Doctrine of Christ. We also talked about mission culture and watched a bit of The District 2, a movie made to help train missionaries, I watched the orignal one before going to the MTC, but this one is way more realistic and entertaining. The changes they are making should be way good for teaching.

Well, it's been awhile since I have shared a movie-gospel analogy, but I thought of one yesterday that I really enjoy. The doctrine is that we can't judge people and say they won't accept the Gospel or they can't do that, just like in Hook, when Peter Banning returns to Neverland he is fat and doesn't know who he is, but he is still Peter Pan. People have forgotten who they were in Heaven and the choices they made, things they are foreordained to do. We need to be supportive and loving and help them find and acknowledge their past to become who they truly are. To be Peter Pan and be able to fly home to return to our Heavenly Parents.

THanks for writing and I wish all of you the best. Just enjoy where you're at and find the good things there and drink loads of Reed's Dairy Chocolate Milk for me. I know that when we serve the Lord and work to help others, we can be happy. I love all of you and appreciate your prayers and letters. I pray for you.

Have a fantastic week!

Love,

Vyresnysis Conor (Kanor in phonetic Lithuanian) Hiltonas