Week Number 3 in Russia!

Hello Y'all! I'm here in Russia still, it's great here. So.. to answer a few questions first. The days and weeks here fly by! It's really crazy, what happens to you while you're on a mission. Things get better and better every day, and the time just fles. Church is usually the same, with about 9-12 people there every week. It's hard to help people to understand that our church is weekly, not just on Easter and Christmas, like the Russian Orthodox church. I gave a sacrament talk last week, and the first week I bore my testimony. That was awesome. My companion and I usually speak English, but if we know the Russian words, we'll speak in Russian. Same goes with our branch president. Sometimes he has to come to lessons with us to translate, especially when people have lots of questions. Elder Kartchner's Russian is really good, I hope I can be close to him in at the end of my first two transfers. He was trained here, so he knows the places to go. We have district meetings with the sisters every week, but other than that we don't do much with them. We aren't supposed to be with any other missionaries in public, so they did not come with us on the train to St. Pete. They took a bus the day before, we just had lots of lessons so we took a train at night. We are going to take a train up to St. Pete tomorrow for zone conference. So many trips. I try to send some pictures every week... sometimes the computers that I'm on don't work with the USB thing. I'll try again today. To go through our week: Tuesday, lots and lots of meetings. We were meeting almost all day, skipped some meals to get it done. They were all really good. Wednesday we didn't have too many meetings, we started tracting buildings here. That was really scary. It was at night, in Russia, knocking on apartment doors. Dang. We met a very nice family there though, they let us in and we went back yesterday for another meeting, with President to translate for us. We also taught english, with about 15 people showing up. That's actually how our branch President met the missionaries, when he was 14ish. He waited four years to get baptized becuase his parents wouldn't allow it. Thursday, meetings. Lots of Restoration lessons. We're trying to kinda rekindle some interest in our investigators that have been meeting with us for too long. Trying to help them understand that we are here to teach them and to help them come to Christ through baptism, not by chatting about any old thing. Friday we went on splits with our zone leaders. Elder Gatrell and I had a lot of lessons planned, but a lot of them fell through. We spent lots of time on the street. On Saturday we had district meeting, talked about our investigators, and taught some more lessons. Yesterday we had a lesson/hang out with some American girls here who are teaching english at the Pskov University. So that was weird, talking to them in english. Our sisters came so we could hand them off to the sisters for teaching, I don't think they're too interested in our message though. One of them got a degree in college in bible studies, and she had to choose four religions to study deeply. She chose us, and needless to say, she knew our approaches to introducing the gospel. She shut us down pretty good a few times. It was interesting. Then we went back to that family that we tracted into, and we talked about our families and asked if they would be interested in our message, and they said yes. So we have high hopes for them to be the rock-solid family here in Pskov. Today we went to the Kremlin here, went inside the Cathedral. It's very beautiful, I'll send some pictures but I don't want to spoil all the surprises :) Love you all! You're the best ever! See you soon! 
Elder Gwilliam