Labas Visiems!

First, we've heard a couple kinda crazy things that America declared war on Libya and that there was some sort of civil war in America. Not sure what's up, but maybe if you could share a little truth, that would be appreciated.

With conference, we'll watch it this week in English and then on Saturday and Sunday in Lithuanian.

Elder SHerman is recovered, but I have not been feeling super great. Able to work, which is good, just my stomach has kinda been wigging out. No worries though, everything's good.

Glad to hear that Seattle was excellent and you enjoyed conference. I'm looking forward to being able to watch and learn. Tomorrow we have zone conference which is also always a great opportunity to learn and is awesome because all of us are brought together, it's like a little reunion.

This week we stopped by a man, Edgidijus, who we had harvested into previously, but was having a party, so was unable to meet. He immediately let us in and was willing to listen. We had a good fist lesson, he wouldn't commit to baptism, but definitely wanted to read the Book of Mormon. He invited us over the next night to continue teaching. We returned and taught a little about the plan of salvation. He had read a little and was interested in what we had to say. He said that he really wants to know what his purpose in life is. He has some concerns with organized religion, but is searching for something more than he has. He is moving, into the sisters' area, into a friend's home, who he wanted to have us teach because he said 'he really needs what you guys have'. It should be a wonderful opportunity.

We began meeting with a less-active, Tadas. He is about 20 and comes to Church fairly regularly, but doesn't really know the teachings and is kind of agnostic. He was quite closed at first, but has since really opened up. We invited him to a lesson with us, which unfortunately fell through, so we met with him instead, but he was very excited and wanted to know how he could prepare to help us. We also harvested a little with him. As we started our meeting he offered the prayer and prayed for us that it would be easier and that more people would listen to us. We talked about reading the Book of Mormon and he asked what we taught people. We showed him the pamphlets and he didn't really know about any of those things, so he asked if he could take them and read them. We of course were quite excited and gave him some. Then, this was THursday night, we talked about how much of the Book of Mormon he could read before Church on Sunday, I started with about 4chapters. He said no, more, so I went up and then he asked how long First Nephi was. We looked and said about 50 pages, and he said he would read all of First Nephi and the three pamphlets before Church. We followed up yesterday and he had read them. It was fantastic.

We also met with Du Wei and talked about repentance as a way we can feel the Holy GHost more in our life. We read from a few scriptures and had him read and explain them, since he has a hard time reading and understanding. He actually did a fantastic job of explaining what they menat and we showed that he could learn something from even just a few verses which would only take about a minute to read. He really seemed to get it, it clicked that he can read and understand, it was awesome.

That's about it this week. Sunday we had a meeting with the 'youth' here and talked about missionary work and asked what we could do to help the branch become stronger. As a result, I have recommitted myself to get to know the members and be their friend, like I greet them and am friendly, but go out of my way to talk to them. Something that's still a little hard for me, but that's what a mission's about, right? doing things that are hard, but need to be done.

I love all of you, and Lithuania. Thanks for your prayers and as always I pray for you. Hope your week back in school is excellent.

Love,

Vyresnysis Kanoris Hiltonas