That's an Elder Butters quote. President came down here Saturday night with the assistants and the assistants stayed this morning to buy new suits here in the cool factory. That's what he asked me when he walked out of the changing room and I about died. I love spending time with him. Anyways, here is the week. Tuesday was good. The Carters left us to go to transfer meeting, we went to the dacha of the member that we went to last week. On Sunday she told us that she had another emergency there and that we had to go move the foundation of one of the structures on her property that had broken a pipe. Really complicated sentence there, but that's what we did. She fed us again some really good buckwheat. Wednesday we went to the dacha of our investigator to teach a lesson. His dacha is not far away from the city (ten minutes) and so we can go there just for a lesson. We had a lesson with him about repentance because he is coming of a rough few weeks with drinking and feeling alone. We talked about that and read Elder Packer's testimony of the atonement in the last few paragraphs of his talk at last general conference. It was a good lesson. Not the best, but good. One of the members who was here a year and a half ago reappeared! She's 15 and crazy. She wants to go to youth conference, so we met with her and signed her up. Thursday we did some planning along with repairs from the apartment inspection. The Carters then invited us to dinner at a restaraunt for my companions birthday. We went to this cool little place by the river, it was an outdoor restaraunt. The carters had gotten back from St Petersburg only a few minutes before and their power was off! So Elder Carter stayed home and Sister Carter stayed and met us. We were supposed to meet a less-active at a park to talk about welfare help, but she didn't show up. Friday was Russian Independance day! And my companion's birthday. We had a really fun activity by the river in a pretty park. We had a soccer ball, a frisbee, and a lot of people show up! I honestly didn't think that many would come, but the bus we were on was suddenly filled with a ton of members and investigators after one of the stops! It was really fun. We had some food and a good time. We were supposed to meet that less-active again in the park but she didn't come. But Saturday morning she did come! Her situation is pretty tough. Her husband is a member and he doesn't support her at all. He's totally off the map right now, he has a lot of debt and is running from his problems. Oh.. and she just had a baby. So that's another twist. Anyways, we are trying to help them out. We cleaned the church after that meeting then were supposed to go back to the branch for an interview with a member who wanted to make things right with the branch president, but he didn't show up. Sunday was really fun! At 8:30 we had a good meeting with President and Sister Childs and just talked about Pskov. Read some scriptures. We then had a meeting with a member here who is really strong spiritually but really lazy physically. He loves video games and plays them all the time. President Childs interiewed him and I translated. We had a good sacrament meeting, again with me translating! Then a good second hour lesson from President, again with me translating! After that, Elder Zaharov and I quickly did the finances and then I was on splits with President and Sister Childs (yikes!). We visited a very old woman in the ward who usually comes to sacrament meeting, but this week was too sick to come. We took her the sacrament and gave her a blessing. Then we met the others, had a dinner at the Carters and said goodbye. It was no fun to say goodbye to them! They are awesome and we'll miss their energy. After dinner and goodbyes, we went to the church and had another meeting with the man we met with on Wednesday. This time President wanted to talk with him about faith and then towards the end we shifted to service. He wanted to have this man do more service in the branch for him to come closer to Christ. Mosiah 5:13 I think. This man does lots of fixing up things that are here in the branch physically, but President wants him to go "home teaching" with us and visit less-active members. He said that he would help us. I hope this works! He's kinda an eternal investigator now. We drove him home then I met up with the other missionaries and we were done for the day. It was a good week. Good to be reunited with some of my favorite missionaries.
Also, President told my companion is his interview (that I translated!) that he would be getting a transfer in July. So that was a really boring transfer call. I don't know who I'll be with or anything like that, but I'll most likely finish off here where I started. Have a good week!
Elder Gwilliam
You go, Grandma!
Me in a tree
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