I have gotten a little behind on KC's emails...I love it when he sends pictures!
We did some service taking foam tiles off a ceiling in a members home and putting new ones up. I cut my hands a little and the woman was all over it. She wiped off every spot and put iodine on all the cuts.
Before
After
There was a car that was almost buried. There are a lot worse ones that haven't moved all winter...with those you can only see side mirrors and a couple of random spots. Otherwise they are all covered.
A members house. We called him a lot, but he didn't answer and the gate was locked, so we decided to throw snowballs until he heard it and answered the door. It worked!
The Rechnoy (river) district...notice anyone familiar? Elder Grover is in my district again.
One of our investigators names Sasha
Feb 2, 2011
Hey Guys,
-18!? That’s way cold. It was cold at the beginning of the week but today it is like 30. So that’s way nice. I’m glad to hear that things are going good with grandma, that’s good that they have nice ladies come out and do that for them. I’m glad to hear that Steven got out on a mission, I hope that its not too hard to live in Salt Lake and not see his family. Maybe they will start doing lots of Family History work down town now, do you think that’s allowed? Is Nate Azera going on a mission soon? I hope so. We had a really nice week, mostly the last couple days. We went out to our Cuban guy and his family, the fam was still in the "hospital" and when we got there there was a sign on the door that said "quarantine, because of the flu" So we called the mom and she said to just come in anyway, so we did. They were all way excited to see us, I'm sure they are way bored in there. And we brought with us an elder from a senior couple that speaks Spanish so that we could talk to Rey, the Cuban guy. We had a great meeting with him about the "Gospel of Christ", he has read the whole BoM and is reading the Gospel Principles book. He is really understanding the gospel well. He's way committed.We had an investigator who is very seriously studying the gospel come to church for the second time on Sunday, so that is good. And he is the relative of a member so he already has at least one friend. We finally met with one of our investigators who has been sick for a couple weeks named Anton. We met before institute and talked about the Plan of Salvation. He understood it really well and when ever I would ask him if he understood or if he had questions he would say "No, that’s pretty much how I imagined it anyway." And the end he told us that he had a feeling that he somehow already knew all this stuff, so we told him more about the pre earth life and how he knew and accepted it all there. It was way cool to see the spirit speaking to him and reminding him of things he once knew and excepted. He stayed for institute and really liked it. Elder Croese, don’t worry I cant pronounce it either, and I are getting along really well. Hes a great guy. Way smart. Today we went into St. Basils Cathedral, that's the one that looks like candy land. I had never been inside before, so it was really interesting. It is basically just covered in icons and paintings. If you don’t know what icons are you should probably google images that. Its an interesting part of their religion. Anyway, this place is just full of them. It was cool. Have a really nice week. I love you guys.
KC
Hey Guys,
-18!? That’s way cold. It was cold at the beginning of the week but today it is like 30. So that’s way nice. I’m glad to hear that things are going good with grandma, that’s good that they have nice ladies come out and do that for them. I’m glad to hear that Steven got out on a mission, I hope that its not too hard to live in Salt Lake and not see his family. Maybe they will start doing lots of Family History work down town now, do you think that’s allowed? Is Nate Azera going on a mission soon? I hope so. We had a really nice week, mostly the last couple days. We went out to our Cuban guy and his family, the fam was still in the "hospital" and when we got there there was a sign on the door that said "quarantine, because of the flu" So we called the mom and she said to just come in anyway, so we did. They were all way excited to see us, I'm sure they are way bored in there. And we brought with us an elder from a senior couple that speaks Spanish so that we could talk to Rey, the Cuban guy. We had a great meeting with him about the "Gospel of Christ", he has read the whole BoM and is reading the Gospel Principles book. He is really understanding the gospel well. He's way committed.We had an investigator who is very seriously studying the gospel come to church for the second time on Sunday, so that is good. And he is the relative of a member so he already has at least one friend. We finally met with one of our investigators who has been sick for a couple weeks named Anton. We met before institute and talked about the Plan of Salvation. He understood it really well and when ever I would ask him if he understood or if he had questions he would say "No, that’s pretty much how I imagined it anyway." And the end he told us that he had a feeling that he somehow already knew all this stuff, so we told him more about the pre earth life and how he knew and accepted it all there. It was way cool to see the spirit speaking to him and reminding him of things he once knew and excepted. He stayed for institute and really liked it. Elder Croese, don’t worry I cant pronounce it either, and I are getting along really well. Hes a great guy. Way smart. Today we went into St. Basils Cathedral, that's the one that looks like candy land. I had never been inside before, so it was really interesting. It is basically just covered in icons and paintings. If you don’t know what icons are you should probably google images that. Its an interesting part of their religion. Anyway, this place is just full of them. It was cool. Have a really nice week. I love you guys.
KC
Feb 16
Hey guys!
Happy Valentines day! Someones mom sent them a package with brachs hearts in them and I thought about mom. Did you stock up? Have you finished the candy corns yet? Its nice to hear that things are going so well at home, and that grandma is feeling ok at our house. I cant wait to see Sam, he is way cute. Tell Olivia hello for me, it breaks my heart to think of her being sad, thinking that she doesn't get enough attention. We had a pretty good week this week. We went out and taught that Cuban man again, we talked about temples. It was really good. We had an incredible zone conference the other day. We had a member of the area presidency, President Lawrence and his wife come and speak to us. It was incredible. Sister Lawrence talked about how our real purpose in missionary work is to seek out the house of Israel, because they are those who will accept it. She talked about how here in Russia there are tons of people from different tribes, she had us stand up if we were from Ephraim and all but two Russian elders stood up, then she had them tell where they were from, turns out one is from Dan and one from Naphtali, and we asked another member here and she said she was from Asher. It is really cool to see how they really did go into the North countries. Anyway, she somehow suddenly made the house of Israel stuff interesting. Then President really inspired me too, he talked about sanctifying ourselves in order to be the best instruments in the Lords hands that we can be.., at least that is what I took from it. It was awesome and really inspirational. Elder Croese and I are staying together for 1 more transfer and then he is going home, So we will be 6 more weeks together. I like him a lot. He is way smart. We had a really nice meeting with an investigator family that consists of a mother and a daughter, earlier it was just the daughter that was interested and the mom would just kinda sit in, but this last week the mom opened up and shared her feelings about changing religions and getting baptized and stuff, she isn't against it at all, she just wants to make sure that its the right thing to do. It would be really great if the were baptized, they are way good people. For Valentines day we made heart shaped cookies and frosted them with red frosting. then we took them to almost all the active members in our area, it was really good and they seemed to enjoy it. We shared with them John 13:34-35, about the new commandment to love each other. Its way simple but really easily overlooked. So things are going really well here. Today I got these really cool "russian dolls" that are of all the prophets! you unstack them and the prophets are inside of one another. Its way cool. Anyway, I love you guys. Have a great week.
Elder Jensen
Happy Valentines day! Someones mom sent them a package with brachs hearts in them and I thought about mom. Did you stock up? Have you finished the candy corns yet? Its nice to hear that things are going so well at home, and that grandma is feeling ok at our house. I cant wait to see Sam, he is way cute. Tell Olivia hello for me, it breaks my heart to think of her being sad, thinking that she doesn't get enough attention. We had a pretty good week this week. We went out and taught that Cuban man again, we talked about temples. It was really good. We had an incredible zone conference the other day. We had a member of the area presidency, President Lawrence and his wife come and speak to us. It was incredible. Sister Lawrence talked about how our real purpose in missionary work is to seek out the house of Israel, because they are those who will accept it. She talked about how here in Russia there are tons of people from different tribes, she had us stand up if we were from Ephraim and all but two Russian elders stood up, then she had them tell where they were from, turns out one is from Dan and one from Naphtali, and we asked another member here and she said she was from Asher. It is really cool to see how they really did go into the North countries. Anyway, she somehow suddenly made the house of Israel stuff interesting. Then President really inspired me too, he talked about sanctifying ourselves in order to be the best instruments in the Lords hands that we can be.., at least that is what I took from it. It was awesome and really inspirational. Elder Croese and I are staying together for 1 more transfer and then he is going home, So we will be 6 more weeks together. I like him a lot. He is way smart. We had a really nice meeting with an investigator family that consists of a mother and a daughter, earlier it was just the daughter that was interested and the mom would just kinda sit in, but this last week the mom opened up and shared her feelings about changing religions and getting baptized and stuff, she isn't against it at all, she just wants to make sure that its the right thing to do. It would be really great if the were baptized, they are way good people. For Valentines day we made heart shaped cookies and frosted them with red frosting. then we took them to almost all the active members in our area, it was really good and they seemed to enjoy it. We shared with them John 13:34-35, about the new commandment to love each other. Its way simple but really easily overlooked. So things are going really well here. Today I got these really cool "russian dolls" that are of all the prophets! you unstack them and the prophets are inside of one another. Its way cool. Anyway, I love you guys. Have a great week.
Elder Jensen
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