The Church in Albania

In Albania there is one Mission, one District and 9 Branches in Durrës, Elbasan, Fier, Shkodër, Tiranë and Vlorë. We have a little over 1000 members in all of Albania and our branch of Vlorë has 101 members. There is about 50 percent attendance in most places with some in the 20 percent and ours 70-80 percent.

There is only 4 High Priests in the entire country, the Mission President, President Neil and three Senior Elders, Elder Preston, Elder Wilson and myself President Smith.

The District President, President Kashari is an Elder and the other Branch Presidents other than myself are all Elders. They have had 110 Albanian's serve missions and only 20 have stayed in Albania, the others have moved and are living in other countries most in America.

Our Mission has President and Sister Neil, Six Senior Missionaries and 43 young missionaries. The Senior missionaries are one Humanitarian couple, one Church Education System couple and us who are the Center for Young Adults couple.

The young missionaries are broken up into two Assistants to the President, four Zone Leaders, two office Elders, nine District Leaders.