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Hello! It was a good week here. Here's the update. On Monday we went and got our faces drawn by those goofy cartoon drawers. It was fun, and we took pictures with our pictures. I'll send them to you. That night we went to a family who has been sick for the past few weeks, and we gave them blessings. It was a great experience. I love being with them, and they even invited us to bring investigators to their house whenever we want. They are great. On Tuesday we had district meeting, I taught about commitments. It was good. We did some service for our ward mission leader. He has a shed kinda thing that he keeps nothing in, but now he wants to keep things there. He just had us clean it out. There were rats... that was fun. That night we just had a few addresses that we went to check on. On Wednesday we had hermitage service, nothing too exciting happened there. We had a lesson that night with one of our investigators and a member that went well, but the member just did a lot of talking. That wasn't so good, but the lesson overall went well. After that was english group, and it was fun. There were lots of people there this time. On Thursday we went on splits with the Office Elders. I was with Elder Wilkins again, that was fun to see him and how much he has grown. We had a lesson with a less active and it went really well. He didn't come to church though, that guy. Friday morning we ended the split. That night we had a lot of addresses to go to, and we didn't have too much luck. On Saturday we went back to our WML's shed and he decided that we was not going to leave the wood on the floor, he wanted us to tear it out and he would later lay asphalt. So, we did that, and we found more rats. Hooray! don't worry, we had masks on. We came prepared for that. In fact, I found 3 little babies while we were digging through the garbage. I couldn't thow them away, so I put them by a hole where the big rats ran in and out and they came and grabbed their kids. That night we had more addresses, and again not so much luck. Sunday was good. I gave a talk about how we can all be missionaries and how we just need to live the gospel, and if somebody asks us why we are so happy or what is up with us, we need to be ready to share the gospel. I think it's 1 peter 3:14 or 15. I forgot. But, that was the verse that I shared as the theme of my talk. It was ok. I felt better about my russian that time. We had a strange gospel principles class with mostly American girls there... everybody in the class knew english, so we taught in english. The girls are here teaching english until December. That night all of our plans died, so we hit the pavement again and went for addresses. It was cool though, we got a random phone call from a guy that met with missionaries a year ago on the street and just got around to calling. We have a meeting with him tonight, that should be interesting.

I read in the book of Acts this week. Acts 3:6-7 are good verses. Peter makes an invitation (more like a command), but then actually helps the man get up! He grabs him and helps him along the way. We need to do that same thing, no matter what it is that we're doing. Whether missionary work or your career, when we want somebody to change we need to help them up!

I love you all, you're the best.

Andrew

                     

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