Privyet fsyem (Hello to all)

Hallo how are you all doing? (Imagine Andrew here speaking English with a Russian accent): I doing fine. Here recap week: Monday we went to the hospital to get my comp's heart checked out. Let me just say, I won't be having any health problems after that trip to the hospital. Yikes. Then we had FHE with our ward mission leader and his daughter who is 4 and bouncing off the walls, that was really fun. On Tuesday we went back to the hospital to get an ultrasound done and some blood taken. they take blood here from the finger and use a normal needle to make the prick... yikes. That night we were walking and there was this grandma lady who wanted us to help her get a drunk man away from her, and it turns out she was drunk too and didn't remember us as soon as we got her to her door and wanted to know why we were there. Crazy. Wednesday the Zone leaders came. It was fun to be with them, we did more service at that lady who lives in a sauna... it actually wasn't so hot last time. Fun. We started puttin up the wallpaper. On Thursday Elder J and I (MTC comp) went to do service while the other two went to the hospital to get the results of his tests. Apparently there isn't much wrong with him, he's just too anxious and doesn't have enough magnesium. So that was interesting. We had a fun english class that night. On Friday we had a lesson with a new investigator, we walked along the shore of the lake and had a good time shooting down crazy Ideas about the church. It started to rain really hard, and we found shelter in a little restauraunt where they sold skewers of meat.. so he was nice and bought us some. It was super tasty. We set up another meeting too. Saturday was fun. We had an activity for the kids in the branch and their parents, it was Irish themed and I was the Leprechaun. Tallest missionary. Great choice. Anyways, that was fun. We just ran around and did different activities according to the rainbow colors and had to do service things and things to work together as a team. It was fun. On Sunday we had church, my comp gave a good talk about the apostasy. We had lots of encounters with drunks because there was some war holiday yesterday. So we saw some guys passed out on the street. 

So, I read a talk from Elder Bednar this last week. It said that when Christ told us to take His yoke upon ourselves, it was an invitation to work. You need two oxen for a team, and so we need to do some work too. Obviously nothing that we can do will ever match up to what the Savior does or did, but we still need to put the effort in. It reminded me of the quote that Mom sent me last week "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." We need to put in some effort as well. 

Love you all! You're the best.

Elder G.