Yo my yo

It was a good week. Here's the rundown. We had a really fun little FHE on monday to celebrate the Church's birthday. We just shared our testimonies with each other and read some stories from church history. It was fun, almost all of the active members in our ward were there. We met at a babushka member's house. Tuesday we spent a lot of the day getting general conference ready. We had to download all the sessions and burn them on to discs. That takes a really long time. During that we just cleaned up a little bit of the branch building. That night we had a meeting with of the middle active members and talked to him about repentance. It was a good lesson and I hope one that he needed to hear. We'll see. Wednesday we did some service for a babushka who had a stroke a few years ago and can't do much on her own. We took that middle active member with us and he helped a lot. Thursday we did a few things to fix some financial problems that we had in the branch. I've never used MLS before my mission, my companion's never been a branch president, so there were a few mistakes that we made that needed to be corrected. My companion got a haircut from the Relief Society president before we had a mini ward council with her. There are a few members here who have some major spiritual/financial problems so we talke about how to help them. Friday we did some more to finish conference preperation. We had a lesson with an investigator set up, but he dogged us. Saturday and Sunday we watched conference. There was a pretty bad turnout. Number one because it's easy to just watch on the internet, number two because it was Russian easter yesterday. We had a little one hour gap in between the sessions on both days and just had some lunch. Other than the two of us, there were only four people total at all the other sessions. So an average of two missionaries and one other person. It was pretty bad. But the messages were great. I really liked Elder Eyring's first talk (we will watch priesthood next week) and Elder Oaks. I watched it in Russian and understood most of it, but it's hard to digest it. Even in english the first time it's hard. So I downloaded all the mp3s and will be listening in english for the next few weeks.

THis week I spent a lot of my study reading the story of the week before easter. So on wednesday I read what happened many wednesdays ago the week that the Savior was resurrected. It was so cool to read that a lot of the most touching and consoling words that He spoke came at a time when He knew that the Apostles would have a rough few days. IT was cool to notice that at this time He was preparing them for what was to come. He does that with us too. He prepares us for the things that are going to be hard for us, and He supports us through those times.

Love ya all, have a good week!

Andrew

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