Hey-O

I'm glad to hear that everybody's doing great. So this morning we woke up at 4 and got on a bus to St. Petersburg, Elder Kartchner and I had interviews with President Clark. We spent our p-day here. We didn't actually have time to do much, St. Petersburg is an awfully big city, but it was good. We are right now on Alexandra Nevskovo Prospect in a cool little hipster library with free internet. So that was a nice find. We're going to run to a few more stores here, see if I can't find a cool Sochi shirt or Zenit something. Anyways, it's going to be a good few days. Tomorrow we have a Christmas devotional/meal that should be really good. I'll like it I'm sure.
So this week has been a long week. Lots of tracting. Lots. We had a good amount of meetings scheduled, three a day, and all fell through but four... the whole week. So that was a bummer. The lessons that we did have though were great. We talked to one investigator who is really sad. He's forty and not married, he's on pension and doesn't get much money, and it's hard for him to find a job becuase he has some problems in his head. It's sad. We had a great lesson with him, and we'll help him know that baptism is the way to go. We just did lots of encouraging and we got him to pray at the end which is a little rare for him I guess. He says he's got nothing to be thankful for and when he asks for things he doesn't get anything. We'll work on it. Really, it's been a slow slow week. I'm glad this little Christmas break came when it did, It'll be good. On Wednesday we're having a little party at our branch, we'll be spending most of our day there. We are in charge of enchiladas for the feast of food from around the world. There will also be karaoke and a spiritual thought. What a blast that'll be. Then... yeah, I don't really know what else to say. Elder Kartchner and I just keep on keepin on. This mission thing goes by so fast it's crazy. Love you all!

Andrew