Whazzup

Hey family! It was another good, cold week here in Russia. I like it here... different things happen every day. It's no routine, I like that. To start the week it was kinda boring, just watching Elder Kartchner pack and get ready to go. That was almost all of Tuesday during the day. On Wednesday we went to St. Pete to get our new companions, it was a good time. Started the day real early... real early. I saw Elder Jaynes again for the first time since we got here, it was fun to talk to him and see how he's doing. Then after our meeting we went back to Pskov. I spent 8 hours on a bus the whole day. Elder Kennedy... he's 6'5", he rowed for Michigan before he came here, and he's got 6 months left. He was an assistant for 6 transfers... that's a long time for our mission. He's been really good to help me out with Russian, and just giving me some good guidance. He's an experienced guy. On Thursday, I realized that Elder Kennedy is bringing some good changes here to Pskov.. a lot of em, too. It's going to be a great time. I'm excited. On Friday we met with a new investigator, who called us first, which is insane.. that doesn't happen here. Good meeting, he wants help to quit drinking, and we're glad to help. He also said that he'd get baptized after he learns more. So sweet! We had a lady on the street talk to us for a while, and she was really nice. Some drunk guys started talking to me in english, wanting some rubles, and she grabbed me and walked away from them with me. She was really nice. Saturday was a fun day... we got the police called on us when we were tracting a dome. People came out and told us to leave, nobody was nice. Usually a few people will talk to us, but not this time. We got out before the police came. Even though they couldn't do anything to us. We got permission to be in the apartment building, we have visas, we have ministerial certificates, we just thought it would be better not to get mixed up with that. Lots of people here think we don't have the right paperwork to be here, it's kinda funny. They say they'll call the police, and we'll get sent back. I want the police to actually come once, that would be exciting. Yesterday we had a nice chat with an Estonian guy. He spoke perfect english and had a colorful vocabulary. It was pretty amusing. He's interested, he already has a Book of Mormon, and he says "it's normal Christian stuff, man". As in, not weird or cultish like everybody here thinks. Anyways, that's about my week. Good stuff happening here in Pskov. 

I've been studying a lot of Alma lately, if any of you want a good reminder about your mission, read through Alma. Great missionary book, sweet war stories in between.

Love you lots!

Andrew

P-day fun with Alexander Nevsky