Hello hello hello! I'm now a big city boy! I'm a little overwhelmed, but it'll be good. So. The week. Wednesday we had transfer meeting. We rode a bus up to the city (I'm going to miss those 4 hour naps) and that was that. Goodbye to Pskov. I then met up with my new companion, and off we went. To the Metro. Riding the Metro with two suitcases is not a fun thing. Especially when it's a little chilly outside and you're wearing a coat. It gets so hot! It's crazy! I want to die every time. Let's hope I'm in Avtovo for another year and a half. So we had a meeting set for Wednesday night, but the guy didn't show up. We arranged to meet with him at a McDonald's. That's wierd. There are US restaurants everywhere here. KFC, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Baskin Robbins, Subway, they've got it all. It's funny to me. Anyways, we waited at McDonald's then we delivered a happy birthday letter from our ward to a less acitve member. There's been a flu going around the district here, Elder Jaynes I guess got it really good and he stayed inside for two or three days. Thursday we did weekly planning, then Elder Wilkins started to feel really sick. He's still not feeling so hot, but it's getting better. So anyways, Thursday and Friday we stayed in.. all day... both days. Let me tell you, I felt like I could've fit the first six months of my mission into those 48 hours. Geez. It was so long! I did get to do some intense studying of the scriptures, so that was fun. Read a lot of chapters. So that was that. Saturday started our mission tour. A mission tour is when a general authority comes to your mission, talks to everybody during zone conferences, and visits a few of the wards on Sunday. Our Zone Leaders are in Kaliningrad, so we had our zone conference on Saturday so that they could fly back for Sunday. President Malm from our area presidency came. He's from Sweden, he's a great teacher. We talked about some awesome things. It was really awesome. There was a lot of fuss about how we looked and things like that. We even got a text the morning of reminding us to use knives during dinner "so that we don't look like heathens". The funny thing is, we had alfredo with noodles... so we didn't use knives. Anyways, it was good. Sunday was awesome. We went to church first thing in the morning, and had meetings upon meetings until sacrament meeting. There were about 60-70 people there, so a big change for me. They even had Aaronic Priesthood to pass the sacrament.. what?! So anyways, it was awesome. There are lots of great people there. Elder Wilkins wasn't feeling too well, so we didn't do much else.
Elder Wilkins is from Idaho Falls. He's been here for a year. He's cool. Really quiet, maybe that's just becuase he's been sick. I don't know. He wants to be a pilot or something to do with airplanes. He worked restoring planes before he came here. That's about what I know so far.
So, during my two days of not much to do, I read the scriptures. I read some cool things. One of them was from the Docrine and Covenants. Section three. Verse nineteen. I thought about what it says there. The Book of Mormon was brought forth in part because of the faithful prayers of some Nephites to have the gospel shared with the Lamanites, and if possible, all other nations. Think about how long it took for the answers, or results, to come! I was thinking about that about my mission, because that's what's on my mind right now. So when we do things, sometimes we see the results right away. Sometimes it takes some work. And sometimes we don't see anything in our lives. Sometimes it takes thousands of years, but it will happen. I don't know if that's too much of a stretch, but it makes sense to me. Anyways, thanks for all of your emails. I love them. You're all the best, love you all!
Andrew
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