First Week in Russia

Russia is super great. I love it here. Oh man. It's just so cool. 

So traveling was boring... people were strait up rude to us in Germany. People will at least talk to us here. Haha. Good ole Germany. So, after we landed here there was a little bit of mayhem. A sister that was traveling with us got stuck in the airport because her visa said that she was a man. Whoops. So she was stuck by herself in the airport for a while, but it all worked out. President Clark was there to greet us with his wife and the assistants, that was awesome. Elder Jaynes and I went with one of the assistants to go to the mission home, while the others waited for the sister to get out of the airport. We rode the bus and the metro to get there. We were forced to talk to people. Haha it was fun though. Then we got a little orientation, then we slept over with the assistants after dinner with President and Sister Clark. The next morning we went to President's apartment again (which is really nice) and had breakfast. Then we met our trainers and found out where we would be serving. I'm with Elder Kartchner (from Virginia, on his third transfer) and we're in Pskov. It's awesome here. Our branch president is the man. We got settled in and went to work. Pskov is about 2 hours from Peter by bus. We had a few lessons last week, the investigators here are sweet. On Sunday, there were 10 of us at church (4 missionaries, 3 investigators, 2 members). It's very small here, but it's awesome. I felt the spirit pretty good during testimony meeting. The days here are already getting shorter. Shopping is crazy. I don't know what anybody is saying. We went to a supermarket today, it's like the Russian version of Wal-mart. It's awesome. I'm glad to finally be out in the field like my buds. This is the real deal here! Russia is the bomb, I'm coming back for sure! Love you all so much!

Andrew