hey everyone!It's been quite the week here and there's been lots of ups and downs but in the end it's been great bc being a missionary is great. The only problem with loving people here so much is that it's hard when they don't keep commitments bc you know it will help them and thE GOSPEL IS SO GREAT AND IT CHANGES LIVES. Короче I love being a missionary.
I forgot to mention last week that me and elder martindale went on an exchange and so this week I had an exchange with elder Lindsey and it was a blast. We went out to this small village to teach one of their investigators and he's such a cutie. We also had to walk like 45 minutes to a slightly bigger village to catch a bus to a bigger village called Balti. We basically just walked through farms and it was rad.
We also got to do some service this week for a member named Sister Evghenia. She's so sweet. She's also probably the toughest old lady I've ever seen and she doesn't take any trash from anyone it's so cute. But we basically walked to her corn field and picked up piles of corn and hauled them back to her hours for about 4 hours. It was so fun I love service. She also fed us some rabbit and I think it's the first time I've had rabbit and it was actually really good.
We carved pumpkins for our game night this week and everyone loved it. We had a lot of people show up so we were happy about that. We've been trying to find new people to teach and so that's been hard to do but we're figuring it out.
Fun things:-I found out that in russian you have to be careful how you say "I want water" because if you mess up you'll be saying "I want to hell." я хочу воду. я хочу в аду.-It was our branch presidents bday yesterday and he's the cutest old man alive so it was just a great day.-Other than that it's been the missionary grind of finding and teaching.
I love you guys so much. Here's a verse on families. I love my family--> 3 Nephi 18:21Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed.
Alright so the challenge this week is to make family prayer a priority. It will bring your family closer together and the everyday craziness will fade away.
-Старейшина Уайтинг