Salutations from Russia!
I could really get used to
this early p-day thing. Only problem is that the emails I sent to my
friends on their missions (4 days ago) have not yet reached their eyes.
Therefore not many emails. I did really good this week and wrote down
what happened so that I don't forget. But I did forget to look at that
paper.... I'll try to remember. Here goes nothing.
Might
as well start out with our good friend K. We spent a lot of
time with him this week but I'll get into that later. We went over
for service hoping to chop wood but ready to do whatever. His wood
supply is at 0 but he does have quite a lot of grass that he wants to
cut down and move to a central location in hopes that cows or horses or
some kind of animal will come and eat it. It started off good, we were
working and doing what he wanted. Although within minutes my allergies,
reacting to the tall grass caused my eyes to water so bad that it
looked like I just got dumped and was bawling. He made a video out of
the whole service project on his vimeo page and put in a clip of my
crying haha. And then on Sunday
after church he wanted to talk to us about permaculture and how it
would help build the church. We went home after church to eat lunch
while the other elders stayed with K there and when we got
back he stayed and talked to us for 3-4 hours. It is pretty amazing how
much he can talk. His ideas are sincere and he really wants to help
grow the church but sometimes they are a little out there. It is great Russian practice!
We and the other elders
held a part of our weekly planning session together in order to plan who
has what and at what times we will be at the church respectively. We
have to move out of our apartment by Thursday
of this week to the other elders apartment and are completely busy with
that and they want to cut the grass at the green island (name of the
field where we play soccer on sports night) so that it is actually nice
and playable. We actually bought a spin trimmer for the branch, the
other elders went down to the Reenik and bought it. Reenik stuff isn't
always the most reliable but it is always the cheapest. Within the
first minutes of cutting the grass the guard broke off and they said
that holding it shakes you to the core. Besides that it works great
and the field is in the process of becoming a soccer field again and not
some farmer's pasture.
Our soccer game with
those guys that came in the church never worked out. They called us
back later that night saying that something came up and they had to go
to Vlad or something unexpected or something like that. Elder Staiger
talked to them on the phone and I don't really remember the reason.
They apologized and said they want to play with us again sometime this
next week. We pray that it happens!
On
p-day I bought a couple of ties. Mom is going to be so happy, I bought
a beautiful purple one that is way Russian. Russia has the coolest
ties. They usually aren't one piece of material or fabric but you'll
have red stripes going down the middle of the tie and then near the
bottom it will turn into paisley pattern, or the border with be different
or it will be split down the middle. There are so many variations that
I didn't even know existed before I got here.
Next time I write you I should know where my destiny lies (transfers) and will be out of my home for the last 4 transfers.
I love you all thanks for you examples!
Elder Wilding![[?]](https://mail.google.com/mail/e/fe4ec)
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