It was a good week. Tuesday we had district meeting, that was pretty good I guess. We talked a lot about the ward and what we can do to help. We had some "language practice" for an hour after that. I added the quotation marks because I was with two missionaries going home in a few weeks and Elder Jaynes, so we just kinda chatted it up. It was a very interesting conversation. Less-active hunting, to no avail. Wednesday we had a Hermitage mix-up, we usually have service that day but the other Elders in our district went instead of us. So... we showed up and went right back home. We will now have service on Tuesdays. We finished studies at home, then got on a bus to Pskov!!! It was really fun. Well, the ride was boring but I took picture number 1 after we got off. It felt good to be back. Thursday I was with the Missionary Branch President in Pskov, we stopped by some less-actives and had branch presidency meeting. It was really interesting to see that and how it worked. The missionary did a really good job, I think. Then they had english that night so we stuck around and helped out. On Friday we went with the other Elders in Pskov, one of my former companions, Elder Holman, and a newer missionary. I went with my old companion and we stopped by some addresses. There was actually a crazy thing too... a lunatic, a pair of mormon missionaries, and a potential investigator who is also a JW all in a small, DVD store... it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but that's what happened. We stopped by the potential investigator and a man walked in who believed he was God. It was a wacky and wild 10 minutes. Wow. The good thing is, they had DVDs for 50 cents and I got the Bourne movies and some Star wars ones in Russian. Coool. That night we got on the bus back to the city. Saturday was a laid back day. We did some training for my companion on the internet. Did some weekly planning. Then met with our less active. It was ok with him, he's doing better now. Sunday was good. We had a great sacrament meeting with a lot of people. Ward council was a little less than fun, there was a lot of arguing going on. Nobody listened to anybody else. Then I translated a temple recommend interview for an american girl living here. That was interesting. Then, best of all, we had a great meeting with our family for Sunday nights. We taught them how to make enchiladas. They loved it, and we all had lots of fun.
A cool thing this week. A brain blast of sorts. I was reading 2 Nephi 10: 20 and realized that we are commanded to repent because God knows that we can't return to Him unless we do. We need to use the Atonement of Christ and use it often, daily. It is a commandment of love. I don't know why, but that just sunk in last week. So that was good. It made the week better.
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