Elder Andrew Gwilliam: GOOD MORNINGGGGG SANNNNN DIEGOOOOOOOOOOOO

It was a good week. A better week. Thanks for all of your awesome emails, I love them. They're awesome. So here's what I did this week. On Tuesday we finished the first class of wheel-chair learners. It was fun, they all liked us, and now they'll hopefully smile at missionaries instead of what normally happens. On Wednesday, we started the second group of learners. They were even better than the first. They were just ready to go, and they were all really smart. They were pretty young too. President and Sister Clark came to check in on the project, and I was glad to have ironed my shirt that morning. Also, that night, after a three week drought of member present lessons we finally got one! Man oh man it felt good. It was with a man whose mother recently died, so it was perfect timing for the Plan of Salvation. We'll see how that goes. Thursday the assistants came to do service with us because we needed more missionaries, that was fun. We also had another split with our district leader. This time I was with Elder Newcomb from Oak-town, CA. He's a fun guy. Strange, but fun. I was in Gatchina again. I miss the small towns. On Friday, back in the city, we had a lesson with a member who was baptized about six months ago. He's pretty old guy, and he was a doctor of the mind. He's got all kinds of crazy certificates from Oxford and the USSR and Russia all over his apartment. He's really smart. He had a stroke not too long ago, so he's got a caretaker. She's about 25ish and she invited us to the theater with her. We said no. On Saturday we served in the Hermitage, we got to see the Bible hall afterwards. It's a big hall that starts at the creation and goes on from there. It's really cool. I need to start taking pictures in there. On Sunday we had church and a few meetings fall through at night. We'll be watching general conference next week at the stake center. There won't be two hour breaks in between sessions, it's just six hours saturday then four on Sunday. It's going to be in Russian and in English. I'll get to choose where I go.

Also, I'm turning into a lady! I bought hair products last week, what in the world is with me... I was just sick of getting haircuts, and looking like a fool!

Here's my thought for the week. Sometimes we just need to change our perspective. In Isaiah 40:31 it talks about being on the wings of an eagle or something like that, and then we'll be happy and fell the spirit and all that jazz. So, as we change our perspective to the things that really matter (eternity) then we'll have a better time. That was a good thing for me to read this week. I love you all! Kiss kiss, hug hug!

Elder G

YAY FOR PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!