My dear family and friends,
To start off, since I am writing this on Saturday this may be significantly shorter because I don't have Sunday
to write about. I'm just joking but it will probably be shorter
because of a number of reasons. But most importantly I still love it
out here and am having the time of my life!
We
helped a sister and her son in our branch move out of a bad house they
were in to a house just across from the church. Opportunity finally
presented itself for me to use those gloves you sent me! Turns out I
didn't need them but I was wearing them on the way to the house looking
way nice.
This morning our friend and member
who is about a 60 year old Asian man took us out to the cheap market to buy
groceries and then to a fish market. He bought us halibut because he
saw my pictures and that we used to catch them in Alaska haha. Russians
are really nice!
We were walking outside of
our house to go visit a less active and out of nowhere we hear a "BLAM"
and look to our left and see that the snow from of our building fell on a
car below. I don't know how it didn't break the window because it
sounded like a gun shot. They actually put out signs and tape so that
people don't walk underneath some of the buildings in town. The weather
here lately has been that it snows at night and then in the morning it
heats back up again and the snow starts to melt and hence why the large
amounts of snow falling from the skies.
I
bought my winter boots! "Alaskas" is what they are called, they come
up to my mid calf and are super warm. Only cost 1100 rubles. And that
is crazy because off of Sakhalin you can buy them for 700. Everything
is more expensive here.
We had dinner at the
orphanage that we served at a month or so ago. Only of the guys we meet
there invited us to come with him. We ended up having hot dogs which is
something I haven't had for a while. And we talked to the owners of it
. They are the Harrison's and are from Australia. We had a great talk
with them and might start to volunteer and help them finish the house.
They moved to Russian 11 years ago when they were 34 and 33. Pretty
amazing people. Said that they felt that God called them. Hopefully
they will become interested in the church!
I love you all!
Elder Wilding
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