It was a great week! Here's the quick update. Monday was good. We had a great FHE with our Elders Quorum president and his wife and son. It was really fun, they're both young and served on missions. We talked a little about family history, and it was mostly a lesson from them to us. They really want us to go home and do family history work, they said they've had a lot of really cool experiences with it and have had family members accept their membership more openly because of family history projects. It was really cool to hear about that from them. I'll do it! Tuesday was good, We had district meeting. After that, we had some office business to take care of. Some silly visa problems that we had to take care of. Nothing too big, it just took time. That night we met with our new convert friend Eric and read from 3 Nephi 27 with him. He's a great young man who is planning on moving to America at about the same time that I'll be going home. He didn't get accepted very well by the ward because he's not a native russian, but he's great and he'll do fine in America. Wednesday was probably the craziest, most tiring day of the week. We spent literally the whole day cleaning out our mission office library. We ordered pizza and everything for it because we were there from 10 AM until 5 PM. It was so so so so messy and unorganized that we were all sick of it and finally just cleaned it. Oh man there were so many old church manuals in there it was pretty insane. We found a lot of cool things in there. Books that were printed in Russian years before the church was here... hmm... That night we had the stake missionary coordination meeting, it was a lot better than the last few that I have been too. We actually did something and there was a great turnout! We even did a role play. I was so happy. Thursday was really fun. We went to the office and had a quick staff meeting to prepare for the next week, and then talked a little bit about transfers. We then jumped on a bus headed for the little town of Kolpino, about 1 hour away from the city. I was with my main man Elder Butters! We taught a lesson to a deaf man! In sign language! It was really cool to see how much of it Elder Butters has picked up in his few transfers. We read a few scriptures with him and he taught me a few words in sign language. He's a member there who they've reactivated. Friday was fun too. We were still in Kolpino and we went to a few less active addresses before district meeting. We went to their district meeting and just kinda observed I guess. It was fun. We then came home and went straight to our English group. I was feeling better than I ever have on my mission this day for some reason! I don't know why. I was teaching about the Book of Mormon in english and it was fun even though the people didn't really understand a lot of what I said. Uncle Scott's Russian friend's father and little sister were there, they are in our ward and they are awesome. We then came home. Unfortunately, we found out that the office couple here is going home this next week. They just have too many medical problems. So that's a bummer. Saturday was good too. We went to Petergof, the small town also an hour away from the city. I went to the english group there as well, but it wasn't as fun as ours on Friday. There were two very interesting guys there who were older and loved that I could play piano. They kept saying that it was sad nobody wants to play anymore, they all play guitar "because of the negro influence". I think that was on their mind because a stencil of Jimi Hendrix is painted on the church door. It was fun to play part of a song and have them try to guess what and by who. Sunday was good. We stayed in Petergof and President came from the city to attend church there. Nothing too crazy other than that. It was a really fun week.
If we are doing all we can to be good boys and girls, all will be great! You'll feel the spirit and you'll be great! Love you all.
Andrew
JIMI
Kolpino
Petergof
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