Hey Family!!!
Well, this week is pretty normal. It's
been getting down to freezing regularly, till a couple days ago it
shot up to about 12 degrees (c) and been staying there.
Me and my comp have really been trying
to work on the members. One of the biggest challenges here in
Russia has definitely been working with members. There aren't a
whole lot of members here in Russia, and everyone here is always
super super busy. The way of living in Russia, isn't to know or
even talk to your neighbor. So member missionary work is
difficult. But we have been really pushing trying to get the
members to help us out, so Elder Marx and I put together a little
plan of our own, and at the same time our mission area has been
pushing for Member Missionary work. So that ended up working
really well!! In the past 2 weeks we have received 5 referrals
from members we have been trying to work with. Which is twice
as much as my companion has received his entire mission, and he's
been out for a year!
Anyway, I think everyone is pretty
confident that the missionary work is gonna start picking up here.
Pretty excited about that.
Ya, and this transfer is over on
thursday, and I'm staying in Арбатский Приход
(Arbatski Ward) with my companion still!! I'm actually really
happy about that. I wanted to stay, cuz I have a feeling we're
gonna see some baptisms this transfer. We're gonna work at it!
:)
We have one new "investigator"
who is from Uzbekistan. He's actually a member; he got baptized
about 10 years ago. But right after he got baptized he moved
back to Uzbekistan, and the church doesn't exist there. So he
came back here, and we got a call from his nephew saying he wanted to
meet with us and come to church. We had no idea he was a
member, we thought he was muslim (cuz ALL "Stanians" are
muslim) Well, we asked him to start working towards becoming worthy
for the priesthood, but he can't read the BoM. He lives with a
bunch of other Stanians, and they are all muslim. He said that if
they knew he had a BoM and he was Christian, they would kill him.
Pretty intense!
Anyway, I love you guys. I'm
loving Russia, and I'm way happy to be here. It's really flying
by!
Love you!!
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