My dear family and friends,
Love Elder Wilding
I am delighted once again
at the opportunity to write to you. I'm greatly blessed by all your
prayers and letters for which I am truly grateful. Also thanks for the
package Mom and Dad. I was informed that I couldn't open it until
Christmas so it has been sitting in a corner for a week now but thanks
to the use of modern technology, I have been found that I have been
living underneath my privileges and actually can open them. How lucky
we are to have email.
I am pleased to say that I
am the owner of a fox pelt. Bought off the Renik for not too much. She
is a beautiful orange color. I also bought a Shopka that makes it so
that my ears will never be cold again. But I can't wear it outside yet
because I would get some strange looks. It isn't cold enough yet.
We
set up for the branch Halloween party but weren't able to attend due to
a
lot of things I don't want to get into. We had some awesome snow
storms when it was just pouring on us and we thought within a few hours
it would be above our heads. That isn't exactly what happened but maybe
sometime soon! Turns out there is a chess club on Sakhalin and when we
went it it was only filled with guys 60 and up. And when we sat down a
man said to his friend, "I thought you said the youth don't play.",
and
he may be right in my case because I got destroyed.
We
had a cool experience where we went to visit a less active but had no
way into her apartment building but on our way there one of our friends
who lives there saw us and let us in. The Lord prepares a way! She
wasn't home unfortunately, but we left a Liahona with an Asian man who
opened the door.
While getting haircuts at our
members hair cutting studio, her co-worker was there and we started to
talk to her. She was very interested in why we were here and what
church we are from and because a member of the church was there she was
able to explain the things that we couldn't! We are seeing miracles
everyday! Also a miracle we did a service project a little while ago at
an orphanage called House of Hope. While on the streets we met a man
we met there who said that ever since that night he couldn't stop
thinking about us and was so sad we didn't switch numbers!
And on Sunday
we had a marvelous fast and testimony meeting. A family who has been
in America for about a month and a half just returned (they were even in
Brigham City) and they all bore their testimonies of the temple becasue
they went to many in America. And the mother said that in the
scriptures you read how America is a holy land but when she got there
everything was the same as Russia she said. But she noticed that
everyone smiled and that there were a lot of believing people and that
she absolutely loved that.
I am so lucky to be serving right now! I love my time out here and am beyond blessed.
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