WORLD OF VILNIUS

Dear Family!

Congratulations Lysee!!! If I timed it right, by the time you get this letter you'll be done with high school. Wowzers life does not slow down. And thanks for the pictures, you are beautiful! I'll try to send a few pictures from Elder Freeman and my adventures from the last couple weeks. I've never had so much fun doing missionary work. We're teaching a ton and have a few investigators progressing to baptism. That's what I'm talking about.

Elder Freeman is famous for finding and teaching people from all over the world, I don't know how he does it but it's a skill I'm trying to learn. The last man they baptized in Riga was Sunnel, an Indian man living there for a few years to study and so ready and in love with the church. I was on a lesson in Riga with him when we asked him if he knew about fasting and he's like “yeah it's when you go for 24 hours without food. I do it every week!” Elder Freeman responded, that's awesome, keep that up.

This week we taught a man from France and one from India. We met Anthony on the bus back from Riga and he was so humble and open. I spoke french, but was struggling and his english was pretty much perfect. I know a good amount of words but they're all over the place in my brain, like a 52 card pick up with different decks. He was excited to read the Book of Mormon, but heading back to France in two days. The following day we were on a way to a lesson when we met “Lucky”, a 25 year old man from New Dehli. Just the nicest person alive. We taught him later that night. He said he prays every morning to meet good people, and he was so glad to meet us and very open to read the Book of Mormon. We got a Hindi Book of Mormon (crazy language, the numbers are different!) and we'll give it to him tonight.

The most exciting investigator is Alexander who we've been teaching for a few weeks. He has come to church and is getting along great with the members. He understands clearly and even mentioned that if Christ came to the earth today, a lot of people would give excuses why they were too busy to follow him. It sounded a lot better when he said it but you get the idea. He also calls us “our” missionaries and “our” church which is just awesome. He's preparing for baptism at the end of June so we'll hope things work out!

Welp we gotta run but thanks for everything. I was looking forward to findinf out where Nae got her call today but was shocked to hear Megan is getting married!!! Wowwy wow wow, she seems so happy and so I'm happy for her! I'm safe, feeling healthy and so very happy. I love you!

Love, Elder Barnes #12