Sent January 26

Dear FamilyThis week was a great week!So other than that... this week was a great week! We met a family atWell all in a ll things are going great here! We have been able toOne thing that I have realized in the past few weeks is the affect the  I really have learned a whole lot. I hope that you know that I love all of you. We only had 30 minutes to write today. We have been helping president a lot. I know that the church is true. Keep the faith.First of all we had a baptism here!... well not here but in France...So I don't know how much I have told you about this because my emailwas so short last week but we have been teaching an Albanian family inFrance for about the past two weeks. The Elders in France met them andtaught them most of the discussions but they were not able tounderstand everything because they do not speak french very well. Sothey contacted our mission president and we had the opportunity toteach them on Skype! First let me say.. Skype teaching is reallyreally hard. The connection  is never good and they are always cuttingin and out. It actually was so awesome to see how the Lord makes upfor our short falls. It seemed as if every lesson started out as atrain wreck... Kids screaming us not being able to communicate, andbad connections, but by the end it was always amazing how strong thespirit would come into our lessons as we would testify and make it allworth it! So they were baptized this week in France it was great! Wewere fortunate enough to be able to watch the baptism on Skype as welland they sent us a picture. I was honestly really sad yesterday as wehad our last lesson with them on Skype. I never met them in person,and probably never will but I hope to meet them in the next life maybeand then we can talk about how difficult it was to communicate onSkype!!the end of last week while tracting and they seem to be reallyprepared. They are the Doni Family and there are four of them.... Mom,dad, and two boys (11 and 10) their families are orthodox but theyhave never been baptized because it was not aloud during the communistregime, but they have a lot of faith in Christ. The mothers faith isso strong in Christ because of the help she has received from Him.about ten years ago she was in a accident and went into accoma for towyears. When she woke up she was paralyzed on the left half of herbody. As time has gone on she has gotten a lot of moment back but shestill does not have full function. It is amazing to see here faith inChrist and her desire for her family to learn and have faith in Him.We also have one other investigator that we work with named Danjel(Daniel). He was a referral l from one of the young men in the ward.His family is Catholic. He is 15 years old and is really interested inthe Book of Mormon.re-activate a lot of priesthood leaders in the ward lately so thingsin the ward are going better, which means the missionary work is aswell!spirit really has on our lives. we have been thinking about latleyabout what the investiagtors get from the lessons and we came to theconclusion that for most of them it doesnt matter so much what we sayas is does what they feel. The majority of them already know a lot ofthe doctrines, if not all of the doctrines that we teach them but thething they miss in their day to day life is the Spirit! It issomething that we cannot continue on without. As it says in 2Nephi32we must "feat upon the words of Christ" everyday. It is like food forour spirits. We don't go to church to learn so much as we do to feelthe spirit and to feel how it changes us, we don't read so much toread or to learn but more to draw closer to God. We pray because itdraws us closer to Heavenly Father. I know we need these things in ourlife daily. I know that if we forget them and they slowly become lessof a routine in our day to day lives, we slowly forget God and thefeelings of the Spirit. So, my invitation to you make sure thateveryday you are feeling the Spirit of the Lord in your life. Love, Elder Bnagerter