It was a good week. Here we go, right into it. Tuesday was fun, we had a service project at a less active's "dacha" or cottage basically. It's like a place where everybody escapes to in the summer, and it's a real bummer. For the wards that is. Attendance hits the all time low for the year during the summer. We weeded for 3 hours. She actually wanted us to not pull out the roots so that they would grow back sometime later, she thinks some of them are pretty. The sisters were there too and we got to have a good time. Lots of snails. We had a meeting set for the night (no show) and we saw a little kitten. I grabbed it. This college aged girl walked by and we asked her if she had food for the cat. She said no, but wanted to see the cat so came and talked to us. We got her number for lessons or english, then these mysterious little girls came and snatched the cat and ran away. Hm... what a great cat, what great timing. We'll see where that goes. We talked to a Lutheran lady on the street, she told us to repent and my american comp really didn't like that. He pulled of his badge, yelled "WE ALREADY DID" then said some other things. She was walking away when he said that, and she came back over and said that our badges don't give us any power. Which is true. And she got all ticked and walked away, and Elder H got all ticked and walked away and yelled that she just threw away her chance at salvation. I wanted to say that he probably just helped her never want to talk to missionaries again, but I bit my tongue. I've gotten good at that, I think. So that was dramatic. Wednesday we had district meeting, and I did a baptismal interview with a young man here who is ready to get baptized. But, the next morning he called the sisters and said he wasn't ready and cancelled for the Saturday baptism. Bummer. He was so excited. We'll see what happens to him. Then we rode on a bus for 1.5 hours to get to a little Ikea office here to buy a mattress for one of the sisters. Turns out, we didn't have enough money with us. Turns out we did, but my companions didn't want to cough up. That irked me. So Friday we did the 3 hour trip again to buy the mattress. Saturday we had language practice with the russian sister, and the office couple came up to see the ward. So it was good. We went out with the elder, we stopped by some less actives and caught a few of them home and willing to meet. That was good. Sunday was awesome. There were 46 people at church IN THE SUMMER which is a record here I think, and 6 of them were investigators and 8 less or non active members. It was awesome! That night we called a Jehovah's Witness on accident and so our russian companion did the talking and the americans did the scripture supplying, that was a fun conversation. Good end to the week.
So this week was strange. We had lessons fall through all over the place. A baptism fell through. And yet... 46 people at church, 6 new investigators in our district in a week (average is 1 or 2) and many other things. We had a missionary night when we were going to go on splits with members not work out. It seemed like everything wasn't working out and it was all bad, but it was a good week. There was some light, and we forgot all about the dark. So that's my thing for the week. Look for the good in things, you'll always find it. Then focus on it. Then it will grow and the darkness will get blasted away. Darkness never defeats light.
Love you all!
Andrew
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