RUSSIA WEEK 4
So winter decided to show up here in Russia! Dang on Monday we woke up and looked at the thermometer and it was not good news. It has been like negative 10 to 15 this week, but it's not as bad as it sounds cause it's in celsius so I think that is like 15 positive in F. It isn't the temperature that is killer it is the wind! It is like rexburg, and it is supposed to snow a bunch this week so I am nervous for that. no, I haven't bought any boots or a new coat. I am not sure if I will need to but if I get too cold I will go buy something. I stay warm though, I am learning the art of layering clothing. And I forgot to bring a beanie so I went and bought one in the market the other day.
So on tuesday we had a
sweet thing happen. Me and elder Belnap were just walking on the street
trying to talk to people and all of a sudden someone grabs my arm from
behind, so I turn and its a younger lady. She started out (in english)
saying can I talk to you, I really need to talk to you. Obviously we
said yeah we can talk. So she was asking us all these questions like how
long we will be in Russia and stuff like that. Apparently she teaches
english to a group of teenagers and she said they began to ask her
questions about religion and Christ and she thought we could answer them
better than she. So she suggested maybe bringing her group to our
Sacrament meeting and we said that'd be great, we gave her our number
and info for church so I am optimistic that something good will come of
that experience. It was an answer to my prayers, because ever since it
got cold people decided they didn't want to talk to us anymore.
Church
was good yesterday. As church was starting the branch president asked
if the two of us missionaries could speak. It was pretty frightening but
ended up that we only had enough time for Elder Belnap so I may be
speaking next week, who knows? I need to prepare a talk just in case
something like that happens again.
The
branch here is not big, but the people who come are very faithful.
There is an awesome family (branch president), a couple other small
families and some older men, and younger girls who are about 25 yrs
old.
I
finished the Book of Mormon this week and I decided to pray about it
again. Although I do not see any visions or anything of that magnitude, I
still truly feel in my heart that it is the true doctrine of Christ.
And I am grateful to have it's guidance in my life. Mom that is a good
idea to read from the new testament about Christ for Christmastime,
maybe I will do that..
Something
surprising that we just found out is that Elder Belnap is getting transferred! That came as a huge surprise to us, we were planning on
being together for at least a couple more months! So he leaves on
Tuesday for Rostov and my new companion is Elder Reed, I think he is
from Logan UT.
Since
it was Elder Belnaps last p day up north, maybe for his whole mission,
he wanted to do something cool. So we were planning on spending the
night in Volgograd with the zone leaders and going to a museum here
today. But we found out the museum is closed today. So we spent the
night anyway and hopefully we can find something fun to do here in
Volgograd today. I think we are going to McDonalds for lunch though,
that will be good.
About
skype, can you send me like amy's skype account info or someone's so
that I can sign in and then I will call moms? I will call you guys, and I
will let you know the exact time next week. We are going to call from
the branch presidents house.
-Scott
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