Dear family, friends,
We were in Vlad with the WHOLE
mission and I finally got to meet everybody. It was good to see some
old companions and reminiscence about good old times. 10 volunteers gave
departing testimonies and I don't know if there was a dry eye in the
whole room. Now 3 of my companions are home; Berrios, Lyman and Crabb.
Conference was so good, Elders and Sisters shared stories of miracles,
baptisms and reactivation's. There was a good feeling in the room.
I
should start writing better letters considering multiple people told me
that before they came in, they read my blog. Apparently it is the first
one that comes up when you search for the Russian Vladivostok Mission
blogs. I didn't even know "Many Are Called But Few Are Frozen" was the
name of it, that's genius.
We were blessed to
go to the Korean temple after zone conference with about half of the
mission. I was on the flight that all the missionaries returning home
were on. I think I told them like 10 goodbyes before that just thinking
that it would be the last time I saw them, but we just kept on seeing
them.
Elder Lawrence and Sister Kapralova
just entered the team on Sakhalin and we are glad to have them! Sister
Kapralova is from somewhere in the west in Russia. I have always wanted
to have a Russian companion but since we don't have any Russian elders I
am getting the next best thing. And Elder Lawrence is incredible! He
may be the funniest person I have ever met! He has only been in the
field for 3 months and speaks like he has been out for well over a
year. It motivates me to be better.
In the Korean airport we saw this little Asian girl maybe the age of 5 or 6
just standing by herself and Sister Kapralova wanted to see if she could
talk to her. She knew a total of 4 words "I'm sorry", "Bye"
and......... "cooked meat" :). And she was yelling those at her "I'm
sorry, I'm sorry, bye bye bye, cooked meat cooked meat" haha!!! I can't
even imagine what the poor girl was thinking haha.
On
the plane back to Russia, I talked to a woman named Roma (a man's name
in Russia) who had a tattoo in Arabic but the skill color that made me
think she was from Africa. Turns out she is from the Philippines.
Anyways she spoke perfect English and married a Russian man that she met
when he was traveling in the Philippines. Really nice lady, I got her
email and gave it to the Vlad sisters, she wanted help learning
Russian.
Well, that will do it this week! It was a good one!
Love,
Elder Wilding
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