Hello family. You all had a fantastic week, I can tell. I also had a very good week. Here is the recap. Monday was good. We had a fun p day. I honestly forgot what we did, but it was fun. We cleaned a little I think. Tuesday was a good day as well. That started the crazy of the week. We had a meeting for the new trainers at 11 in the morning, there were two missionaries there. One that was going to start training the new missionary, the orther that was just going to finish the training of a different missionary. We just talk about the 12 week training program and answer the questions that they have. It was a good meeting. After that we had district meeting, it was the last one of the transfer. We had a good time together. After that we left for the airpoort to pick up the new missionary. We drove to the airport, met him at the gate, then Elder Doxey and I took him home using the metro and the busses while the Childs went back in the car with the luggage. It was fun to see this new missionary get his first really big gulp of Russia. He was so so overwhelmed, I'm sure we were all like that. Anyways, we were with him for the rest of the day because he was alone. He came back to the office and had some talks about money and passport and visa and blah blah blah then we went to the Childs apartment and had a nice dinner with him. It was the second or third time ever that I've had borsh, and it was really really good. It was funny to see how he thought that missionaries should act. He was really really stiff and it was kinda funny. Wednesday was a crazy one. We had breakfast with the new elder and his trainer. Then we were in the office running around like mad dogs because the office workers did not prepare the documents for transfers that they needed to. So that was crazy. Then we had transfer meeting which was a lot of fun. It was kinda a small transfer, so there weren't too many people there. But the quality of the people was good. Elder Castleton played a cool song on the piano for all of us. It was cool. After the meeting there was more business that we had to take care of in the office, and we took care of it. Lots of boring paperwork. That night for my birthday we had a fun dinner and I got a CD with some songs on it from the office elders (they are our next door neighbors). That was fun. We then had a lesson with the man who wants to become the king of Russia. It was an interesting lesson, but he's not so willing to change his religion becuase the Russian King must be Orthodox. Thursday we spend another whole day in the office preparing for Zone Conferences that will be tomorrow through thursday. Every missionary is getting a flash drive that they can use for sharing movies with people at lessons, and we loaded them up with a few movies. But we had to fill 85 of them... so we were in there for a while. It was super boring. Friday morning we drove up to Petrozavodsk. It's a six hour drive, that was no fun. Then we went out there to meet a member that we both know (we both served there) so we meet them and had a good time catching up. The guy that we really wanted to see wasn't there, but that's ok. Saturday President Childs came to our companionship study and that was interesting. We didn't have much time because we had to meet the other missionaries at lunch at the nicest KFC in the world, I swear. It's in a huge nice building. We then went to the church and prepared for the fireside that was on Saturday night. It was great, just like last time. There were quite a few people there. After the fireside, we cleaned the branch building and that was great. There were a lot of us and we cleaned fast. Sunday we woke up and went to church there, I translated the talk for President Childs. He gave me no warning. After church we had lunch with the senior couple, then we came home. The sunset began up there at 3:30 pm! That was insane. I was there on the longest day of the year, and now coming back near the shortest was so crazy.
It was a good week. The lesson I found out that I needed to learn is patience with everyone. In the office all the mistakes/messes/problems are blamed on whichever missionaries happen to be in the office, and the workers sometimes treat us like we're dumb and that we are just the worst. It kinda irks me sometimes, but I'm working it. That's all for the week! Love ya!
Andrew
birthday dinner
the cake
for Sam
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