Here's the Week

Here's the update: Monday was good. We got home really late from the airport. Later than usual I guess. It was about 3 when we got back to our apartment, the rest of the day was p-day stuff. Tuesday was really fun. It was the day that the Blockade of Leningrad ended, so there were lots of cool fireworks that night. We had the honor to go to the cemetery where those who died during the blockade are buried. The Church was invited this year to leave some flowers at the monument there, so we got to go with President and see it all. It was really cold. It was hard to imagine that people lived through that time. They started to run out of flour, so they used sawdust as a substitute! There are so many crazy things that went on. I was glad to have that little boost for charity to Russians. Great experience. We then went up to President's apartment and had lunch and discussed the upcoming MLC. District meeting was after that. Nothing else too interesting on Tuesday. We had more meetings on Wednesday afternoon and finalized transfers. We had another meeting with our new convert friend Eric and gave him the scriptures that he requested. Another really spiritual meeting. He is coming over to the Childs tonight for FHE with us, so we hope that will be great too. He came to 4 hours of church yesterday. He stayed for the next ward's Sunday School. Sweet. Thursday was another day of meetings. MLC was good. We spent the whole time just talking about how we can improve our teaching skills as missionaries. Great stuff. We then helped an older woman who works in the office (and is the wife to the first native russian mission president who has since passed away) on the computer learn how to work a spreadsheet. We then got dogged by one of our investigators. That night also a few of the missionaries snuck into the mission office to find out their transfers a day early. Then they called me to say that they knew their transfer already. That was bad. I called President and told him and there were some changes made to the transfer. Friday morning we made transfer calls. All went normally. Funny reactions to new areas and new companions. Then we went to the institute building and had our Zone Training. That was interesting. Just some interesting interpretations of what we were trying to teach at MLC that weren't quite spot on. That night was english, but only one person came. We watched a few mormon messages in english thanks to the senior couple that was there and called it a night.Saturday was a boring day for me, it was spent packing by my comp. We then got dogged again that night by a different investigator. We decided that we would go exploring. I had heard of this place where there was some Beatles artwork on a building a knew the general area, so we headed that way. We eventually found it, and it was better than I expected. We found a temple of Peace, Love, and Music in the name of John Lennon. That was interesting to see. We headed to Avtovo ward on sunday to check out the ward. President mostly just needed some help getting there. It was really fun to see the avtovo gang! I really liked serving there and things have just gotten better since I left. The Carters, the new/old office couple, invited us over for dinner so we went over there at 5. It was really really good! Oh man! I loved it. We just got to chat with them. We then went to meet this man from Gambia named Sainey. He's really nice and really muslim. We realized that trying to teach would be hard, so we made friends with him and his 3 roommates. They're all muslim and all the nicest people I've met here. That was pretty much the week.


Have a great week!
Love ya

Andrew