In Zagreb

Logan just emailed the family today and told us how things are going. He's been out in Croatia for two weeks now! Crazy!

"so I'm in zagreb, the capital. as you probably know im super busy but its a lot of fun.
the work is hard but its not going to get me down. we're working really hard to find new investigators right now. we have about 3 investigators, soon to be none. our first investigator is K.C. from Nigeria. he doesnt speak croatian so we teach him in english, which is good for me. he's ready for baptism and really wants to receive the gift of the holy ghost. we reviewed with him the baptismal interview Q's and he is doing great with all of those. he knows that Joseph Smith was a true prophet and is working to keep all the commandments. the only problem is that he cant get work papers here and cant get a visa either, so he has to go back to africa. it kinda feels like crap but i know he'll get baptized. to make sure that happens we're giving his info to the elders in africa. I'm kinda bummed that he won't get baptized here but I'm just really excited for him to get baptized and it doesnt matter who or where its done. he's amazing.
our other two investigators are a mother and son named Izdenka and Sandro. they're interested but theyre in a bad situation with her huband. he's abusive and everytime we meet with them they wont let us teach them because they just cry to us about how bad it is. we listen but there's not much we can do. luckily they're moving out, so we're just waiting until that happens. the people here are kind of cold and stubborn, but every once and a while we find someone great and they will listen to us. its hard but we're both dedicated to this work and will do anything to see it progress. other then that im doing great. there's been a few hard days so far but its worth it. my language is progressing and i'm excited to continue to work on it. so yeah right now i'm just getting used to croatia. still cant understand anything really, but people say i speak well, so i guess that's a good thing. My trainer is elder anderson, he's amazing and works me hard. he's determined to make me the best speaker croatia has ever seen. so we'll see how that goes."

Peace Out MTC.

After a VERY quick 9 weeks (from my perspective at least), he's gone! Elder Nitta left this morning, flew from SLC to NYC, from NYC to Austria, and then Austria to Slovenia. The mission home is in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He will start tracting there and then receive his assignment after a few days and likely head to Croatia by train. While he was waiting for his flight to Vienna he was able to call the family from the airport! It was so great to talk to him! He sounds absolutely great. It's still our Logan, but he's changed a bit. It's for the better though. It was good to hear his voice and not have to wait about a week for a response! He cannot wait to get to Croatia and start preaching. He is still a little uncomfortable with the language, but that's to be expected I think. He'll get it in no time. He was able to ride to the airport with a missionary that we know from home, Elder Wise, who is heading to Japan. There were also about 20 missionaries going to his area of Europe. They are all on the same flight together. He told us how they tried contacting people in the Salt Lake airport, but didn't really have any luck. Haha. I wonder why. He did tell us a cool story of how he found a guy with earrings and thought that he might have some luck with him. Not too far into the conversation, however, the man told Logan how he had served a mission in Germany and it was the best experience of his life. At first, all Logan could think about was how that "wasn't cool". He was referring to the earrings and how the man had fallen away from the church. Logan realized that it was really neat that even though that man wasn't active in the church any longer that his mission was still the highlight of his life. Pretty cool story. Then he left...for his 10+ hour plane ride. And we (me and Logan) thought the 5 hour flight to Hawaii was bad. Ouch, he's going to have FUN. We can't wait to talk to the kid during Christmas. He's going to be a GREAT missionary.

Here's his address in the field. It's the mission home, so it shouldn't change. He said that they would forward letters to wherever he is at, but not packages. I'll let you know where to send those as soon as I find out!

Elder Logan Nitta

Molekova Ulica 3

SI-1211 Ljubljana-Smartno

Slovenia

He also sent some pics with his last letter. Here's some of the pictures :)

Chelsea