Another awesome week in the USSR! Me and Elder Lyman are in a cooking
zone and we make so many good things! Especially smoothies! We made
peach cobbler and had some ice cream and it was like the best ice cream I
have ever had! They don't sell tortillas at the store so we made
homemade ones and had breakfast burritos!
We are
teaching a new investigator named Ivan. He is a really cool guy! He
reminds me of a Who off of the Grinch. Anyways he is a perfect
investigator in some aspects. For one he calls us to meet instead of
the other way around haha. He will call us and set up an appointment
and then text us right after to confirm the appointment and then
sometimes call again to see if the appointment is still on. Haha he's
awesome! We didn't ask for a referral from him but he gave us one
anyway! He really likes English and loves speaking to us in English
(which really helps me.)
Our investigator Ruselan is going to get
baptized this Saturday! He is really excited and so are we! He loves
the Book of Mormon now when he really used to only like the Bible. If
all things go well by the next time I write we will have another member of
the church in Angarsk! A girl we teach about every week named Tanya
(she is a new member) said that if I want to gain a Russian accent I
need to speak clearer and make my mouth wider. She also speaks really
good English. Seriously so strange how many people speak English in
Russia.
Our service this week was "Hari
Krishna" or at least it was for them. They are a religion and they make
food for the homeless and we serve it to them. It is really fun!
They have this Arabic music going on in the background that just says
hari krishna over and over again. I am convinced that is the only lyric
in the whole song. We serve casha (oatmeal) and soup. We get to eat
before and you would be so proud of me mom I actually ate the soup.
They make us take off our shoes and put on these sandals and an apron. A
ton of people come in and are asking for stuff and I have no idea what
they're saying so I just smile and say "Da". I like doing it, it really
makes you appreciate all you have because all of these people that come
have nothing.
Just like in Puerto Rico when we
went and all the lawn mowing or weed cutting is done with spin trims.
That is exactly how it is here. There was one nice grass field that I
have seen here but everything else is just weeds and Elder Lyman said
that the grass field we saw was the nicest he has seen on his whole
mission. It rained!!!!!!!!!!! I love the rain and it is way fun
walking in it! Hopefully it keeps up!
We had
a branch activity where we walked down to the river and had a
campfire roast type thing. They brought some Russian meat that tastes
amazing and roasted it over hot coal. Also we had this Russian salad
that is simple and I thought I would hate but it is actually very good
as well. All it is, is onions, tomatoes and cucumbers and a whole lot
of mayo. They love their mayo here. We were suppose to bring a change
of clothes to the church where everyone was meeting but we forgot and
we decided to head back home to grab them. We had to run because of
time and we ran all the way back home in the rain. When we were about
30 steps away from our door I joked to Elder Lyman what if our keys
didn't work. It was at that time when we realized we didn't have our
keys and we ran for nothing. Defeated, we walked back in the rain. Our church clothes got all smoky but it was still way fun.
We
were walking in center contacting and a guy stopped us and asked where a
certain building was. Elder Lyman told him sorry we weren't natives
and that we didn't know where it was. They guy asked where we were from
and he said Texas (he was born there) and I said Utah. When he heard
that he got super super excited and ran into his car and got his friend
and started videoing us telling him that we were from America. He said
him and his friend were from Novaskbirsk and were on a Siberia trip and
documenting the things they found. He was so shocked Americans were in
Siberia he had to get it on video haha. We didn't even know he was
videoing and thought he was taking a picture for the longest time haha.
School started here the same day it did for Taylor. A lady asked us if we were
coming for school when we were talking to her. Great Week!
I love you all
Elder Wilding
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