Dear Family,
Transfer Updates! Well Elder Manning is no longer with Elder Nelson, the new missionary. He went to Vilnius to be the Zone Leader. Elder Nelson is still here in Klaipeda with Elder Hengst who was in the MTC with me. Elder Hilton isn't my comp anymore. I am still in Klaipeda but i'm with Elder Hyer now. He is such an awesome elder. I was hoping I would be comps with him. We are already loving being together. He is way funny and we work so well together. He struggles with the language so he wants me to help him a lot with the language. So I guess you can say I am sorta the Senior Companion but not really. Ha. He's so great though. He has such a great attitude about everything. At church, Pres. Blinduruk said we had two new missionaries, elder hyer kinda stood up and waved and everyone chuckled. Then Pres. B said they would have elder hyer come up first to bear his testimony and then elder hengst. Elder Hyer didn't move and was just looking around. He looked at me and I pointed to go up there. He got up slowly and said what do I do? haha I told him to just bear his testimony. :D He laughed about it after. President and Sister Dance were here for church too so we got to hear them speak. They came over to the other elder's apt. too after church and we all ate together. It was fun! This transfer is going to be way awesome. He wants to go running with me too when it starts warming up soon. Everyone here knows me as the runner/sportsy guy so whenever people say if we are comps, they want me to get them in shape. :D
Nothing really too exciting to report other thant the transfer. We have been teaching this older man who is easily distracted so teaching is always a joke. haha. He feeds us everytime we come over which is nice. As far as progressing, it's a slow process and sometimes I wonder if he even remembers after :D He's great though. We have had a lot of the cool youth in our english class come to activities lik Family Night and what not which is way good. It has been really cold this week so that hasn't been too fun but I get used to it.
I'm sorry this email might be kinda boring. Nothing that exciting happened this week except for transfers and stuff that really wouldn't make sense if I told it to you. I am way happy to still be here in Klaipeda. It's such a great are and the branch is just awesome. I love them to death. I think this has been my favorite area even more so than Kaunas. I just feel really close here. Hahah I just really have nothing more to say. I pray this next week will have some new investigators so I can have something more exciting to say. Just know that I truly am loving it here and being a missionary is awesome! I am excited to see pictures of Parker's new hamster and it's way crazy that Anna is almost sixteen. At times, as missionaries, you just feel like the world is just at pause at home and when we return the world will start moving again so when I hear crazy news it makes me realize things won't be the same at home :D Oh funny thing, at Maxima, by the theater, they have the posters for movies. Oh my gosh they already have posters for the new Pirates movie! I just kept saying with Elder Hyer jokingly reasuring ourselves that everything will be ok, " Eternal perspective, Eternal perspective":D I will be very excited to see that when I am home. :D
I will be excited to hear from you next week. I love you all so so much and thank you so much for all you do for me. Tell everyone hi for me back home!
Su daug mielu,
Elder James Sanford
Follow James Sanford while he labors among the people of the Baltics and Lithuania as he serves as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Elder James Sanford
Elder James E Sanford
A/D 3438
LT-01011 Vilnius
Lithuania
Instructions for sending mail:
We received the following instructions from the mission office:
LETTERS AND CARDS
Each city where missionaries serve has a post office box where they may receive mail directly. However, there is limited forwarding so if they are transferred to a new city, the letter or card may take awhile to get there and there is a risk that it may never get there. It is fairly safe to send a letter or card the first few weeks following a transfer, but risky in the few weeks prior to a transfer. You can always send a letter or card to the mission office at Cesu iela 31-2k2, LV-1012, Riga, Latvia, and we will deliver it to your missionary at the next zone conference. Do not send money or valuables in letters. Post cards are fine. You can also send letters through pouch mail addressed to Baltic Mission, Pouch Mail, 50 E North Temple, Salt Lake City UT 84150, but be sure to follow pouch mail guidelines. Pouch mail arrives at the mission office and will be delivered at the next zone conference.
PACKAGES
Small airmail packages take about 2 weeks to arrive. Packages sent by surface mail can take 2 to 3 months. NEVER INSURE PACKAGES as there will be a stiff customs charge that the missionary will pay from his personal money. Anything over $50 also has a custom charge. In addressing a package, write “Baltic Mission” and then the missionary’s name and the office address. Some postal employees don’t want to give the package to anyone but the missionary to whom it is addressed. If it is addressed to “Baltic Mission” and then the missionary’s name, it might simplify the process.
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