Hello!!!! It was a good, crazy week here. I'll just jump right into it: Tuesday: We had a good lesson with a less active kid, 16 years old, and his non member mother. She is not a member because she has a problem with drinking. Bummer. Anyways, we had a good meeting, invited him to the kinda youth conference for the youth here. They all go to Moscow, it looks really fun. We also had to save the lives of the sisters here, they were on their way to Kaliningrad, and needed to put their mail back in their mailbox, they took it out on accident. So we did that too. Wednesday we talked to a lots of people. My gosh. All day dedicated to it. We talked to this guy who was an Assyrian (like from ancient times...) and his family was converted to Christianity not too long after Christ's death. They got persecuted in the 1940s and moved to Russia. He was really cool. Then this older man who, after I told him that I wanted to maybe look into engineering when I start to study, threw down his cane and told me about how I looked like and engineer and how I needed to become one. It was funny. Thursday we had Hermitage, pretty uneventful. Friday we did some "street teaching" (contacting) and so yeah. Fun. Saturday, we taught our number one investigator the Word of Wisdom. A biggy. It went super duper well, almost too picture perfect. He said he didn't have any problems. Sweet. He's close to a baptismal date, there's just a few things that we need to get out of his brain and work out. Like with everyone. After our lesson I beat him at chess, I still got it... kinda. Russians are really good at chess. Then we had english group. that was really fun. On Sunday we had some good talks about something that I had been studying this week. I'll talk about that in a sec. We got some pretty hardcore rejections on the street. We were just talking to this guy, and another one came up to us randomly and said "Don't talk to these people. They're bad people. They're from America, only evil comes from there." Then he turned to us and said "get outta here" and my blood began to boil.... what had I ever done? What had any missionary ever to him to make him say that? I sure didn't do anything. If he didn't want to hear our message, cool. Don't listen. But don't tell us to get when we're just having a good conversation. If all that is from America is evil, your car is evil. All those planes are evil. The lightbulbs you use are evil. Of course I didn't say anything, which leads me to the more spiritual part of this. I've been trying to work on that... I just get upset right away. I haven't seen much progress. But, I read in D+C 64:33 that the little things that we do, they might not seem like a lot when you measure in hours and days and even sometimes weeks. When you look at months, and years, and decades you see huge progress in yourself. In others. In things that you are trying to improve. It's cool, that's how Russian is. You just feel the same as six months ago then realize that you're so much better. It's awesome. That's how it is with all. And, it's important to make the path a good path, because the same will happen in the opposite direction. I also read that the Savior didn't become the Savior when he was born. It took years. D+C 93. Cool. Anyways, thanks for the emails! Love you all.
Elder G
Look up the song Файна for my favorite Russian song.
Cool Tower
My Favorite Chair
Go Away Sun...
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