So it was a good week. Here goes. Tuesday we had a good district meeting with our new district, I think this one will be better than the last. We have a Russian sister in our district and she's a really hard worker who really doesn't like complaining, so we should all get some really good work done here in the next 5 weeks. We then had a meeting with one of the members who works in the office and gets visas and things like that organized for us. We had a long meeting and talked about a lot of the problems that we've been having, and he mostly just wanted to get information clear in our minds but he took a long time doing it. We got dogged by one of our investigators that night. Wednesday was perhaps the best day of the week. I went to the dentist (MEDem clinic, if mom wants to look it up) and showed them my tooth. They laughed and laughed that I had come in for a small cavity. By the way, I noticed the cavity while I was FLOSSING my teeth and there was a little tiny hole up by my gum. It didn't hurt, it wasn't discolored, just the beginnings of a cavity. So I got it taken care of. The ladies there were really nice. They asked me a ton of questions for about 15 minutes just to find about about dentistry and teeth cleaning in America, and they said it was a pleasure to work with a mouth with no problems but a small cavity. So then they gave me some stuff in my mouth and 15 minutes later I was out. I doubt that my dentist at home will notice it. The filling is perfect. I was amazed. The only bummer was, she waited until my mouth was numb to ask who I was and why I was here. So she didn't understand most of what I said I'm sure. We got dogged again by another investigator, and had an address of a new referral that we tried to find, but the apartment didn't exist. -________- Thursday we had Hermitage service, which was good as always. This time we got to help clean up chairs in the winter palace and there was a cool British girl there. We had a lesson with a former investigator that night, and he showed up! He still wasn't too interested. He believes that to get close to God, you need to break away from organizations. That's what Jesus did, right? Well, kinda... but anyways, he was really stuck in his ways and it won't be a good use of time to meet with him. We then translated a letter from a disgruntled member who feels that all the single women are being neglected in the stake and wants President Childs to tell the stake leadership what's up. Friday was kinda a crazy day. Really crazy. So we got new couches in our apartment because our old ones were vile, so it took a good chunk of the day to wait at home for the guys who were coming "in five minutes" that came in 1 hour. We called some people during that time. We had a situation arise with a few missionaries that weren't getting along and that had been in separate rooms from 10 AM to about 2 PM, so we had that in the back of our minds. We said that at 5 if they hadn't made up that we would tell President. He was in Turkey for a mission president seminar, so his phone was off. He was actually on his way home at this point. So we saw president at 5 in the office, told him what was up, he called them and said "We're going to Vyborg! " So that was a fun little detour that took a while. We went up there and just had some small talk with the elder that president was not interviewing. That was our role. We left there at about 11, got home at 2 AM. Then, the words "Elders, get some sleep. You can sleep in" came out of president's mouth and I was so so happy! Just for the record, we didn't go past our allotted 8 hours of sleep. I won't lie though, it felt good to wake up with the sun shining. Saturday after waking up we had our normal schedule. Did some weekly planning then went to some addresses of former investigators. Sunday was great, we went to Gatchina's sacrament meeting and it was really fun! There were maybe 20 of us there, but it was so great. There is one active family there, and they are so awesome! After church, President did some interviews with the missionaries and it was so fun just to sit and talk with this family. Oh it was great! We got dogged again by a different investigator. It was tough as far as meetings go, but it was a good week as a whole.
This week the scriptures really came alive to me. I have been studying the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how the 5 parts work together, I tried to figure out why this had to come before this etc. and it was so so great! I've come to really love the scriptures on my mission for the spiritual knowledge that we get when we read. It's fun to just ask questions then find all the answers. I love the scriptures! Read them every day! Have a good week!
Andrew
cool sunset
yes, we are hipsters
so tired
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