Hello. It was a great week here. Here's the famous weekly rundown. Tuesday was fun. We started off by doing some service at a less-active member's dacha, and it started raining really hard. All we did was move some wood from one pile to another. I don't know if she has a plan for what she wants to do with it, but whatever. Then we went to that Ikea store again to get another mattress for the other sisters. Funny story.. they called us that night and said "we don't really need the mattress" so that was a bummer. We'll come back to that story later. On Wednesday the zone leaders came to do zone training. My MTC companion is one of our zone leaders, and I got to go out with him. That was really fun. We went to an active member's house and taught him a quick thought, and then he talked about all of his problems to us. He hasn't paid tithing in 5 months because he's waiting for the hard times to pass. We explained that he should pay with faith and all will get better but he just said "yeah, I understand... I understand... but I'll just wait" that was a bummer. On the bus home we met some Brits and a Texan guy, that was super fun. Thursday we had service at that beautiful dacha by the lake again for the primary president, and she was really grumpy. She kept getting mad at me! Her weed wacker ran out of the plastic twine stuff as soon as it was my turn to have a go, and she thought I had broken it. Even after I explained to her what we needed to do, she still was treating me like an idiot. I didn't like that. We had lunch at this Mexican restaurant here called Sanches and it was fantasmic. I had some fajitas. It was fun. We found some old Jehovah's Witnesses, talked to them for a while. I guess that they've been hitting our area really hard here lately. Friday my American comp had an emotional meltdown and a slip of the tongue and a twenty minute pouting session in the bathroom. We went back to the Ikea to get our money back. Saturday we had Russian practice, a tough weekly planning session (the Russian didn't want to be involved or do anything that day) so that was tough. On Sunday we had a great lesson from the Elder's Quorum President from the June Liahona. Then we did some talking and walking. Tonight we're going to St. Petersburg and tomorrow morning we'll meet the new mission president. I guess he's great, our zone leaders have already met him. He already speaks Russian pretty well I guess, that's cool.
Here's my thing for the week. PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH. If you tell somebody to do something, you better be doing it. Don't say to always have a happy attitude if you don't. Don't quote scriptures to correct another's actions, becuase there are an endless list of scriptures that one could use to get you as well. We live in an imperfect world filled with imperfect people. We can't expect perfection from anybody here, only their best efforts. We're all here to improve ourselves and we should be helping each other on the path to perfection. We can't do it alone, no matter how hard we try. That's all, just be careful. When you do those things, all trust, respect, love, etc. that others have for you will start to melt away and will be hard to get back.
Love you all!
Elder G
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