Another week with no pictures.
Ok cool, so here is how this week went...we basically spent
all our time street contacting, but we met some cool people. We went walking around a lot of Vlad and I
got to see like submarines and stuff so that was pretty cool. We taught a couple of lessons with the
members, and that was a lot of fun, because the grandmas give us fruit after we
give them a lesson. It’s fun to talk to
the members and get a little bit of their story. There is this half paralyzed old lady that we
give the sacrament to every week, and she gave us oranges after, and another
woman gave oranges after we taught here that she just pulled out of her desk. I guess it’s kind of like a thing that old
people do after you teach them, I’m not really sure.
Saturday was a super fun day. We went to Russian Island (Russky Island)
which is like the size of Vlad, and it took like a full 2 and a half hours to
get to where we needed to be for our contacting that day. Turns out though, that we were able to
actually tract, in Russia! It’s pretty
hard to do that in this area because of the way the apartments are made, but we
were able to and I got my first taste of what it is like to say that you are
missionaries and then someone just slams the door in your face while rolling
their eyes. It was just too cliché to
not laugh at. Elder Riggs said that he
had never went tracting before, so it was his first time too. After that we found this old lady just
standing outside in the middle of nowhere, so we talked with her for a really
long time. Some other guy then came up
and just started talking to us like we were already friends, and Elder Riggs
thought that he looked like a branch president and we decided that we were
going to come back to talk with that guy.
We then were walking back and found shells in the middle of the forest,
so that was kind of weird....as we were coming back, there was at least a
hundred people all ice fishing. and so they were all heading home and kicking
up the dust in the road, so that was kind of on the less fun sides of the
day. Then Elder Riggs asked if I wanted
to wait for a bus, and right when he finished saying that, this bus rolled up,
so we were like, yup I guess we were supposed to take a bus now.
We made it back to the mainland, and set up around a grocery
store and handed out at least 50 of the Christmas campaign cards that the church
is handing out. And there some people
who stopped and read it and nodded with approval, and some people who then came
back to talk to us a little bit more about our faith, and how to find out more,
so hopefully we were able to get a few more investigators out of it. Sadly, when we were going home, we found a few
of them on the ground, but out of the 50 or so, we only saw 2 so that isn’t bad
at all! We then wanted to get sodas to
celebrate, so we went to this pizza drive thru place, but we didn’t have a car,
so we felt awkward waiting in line. We
went around the back, but there was no door...it was just a drive thru line! But they took our orders on the other side
that had a window for some reason.... the girl who took our orders spoke English
and had been to the US. It was really
surprising and kind of fun because she was so good at it. We then invited her to English practice, and
she said that she would definitely go, so here’s to hoping that she is able to
go tomorrow, and we are able to talk to her some more about the gospel. Lucky for us too because we teach the advanced
class and that is the one that she would definitely be put into. She was way nice, and it was funny, because
when we gave her the invitation to English class, we were like, we don’t want
you to get into trouble, but we want you to have this, and she was like I
actually probably will get into trouble and took it and snuck it into her
apron. She was one of the only people
that I have ever met here who can have a full conversation in English, so it
was kind of weird for me at first.
Anyways, Sunday was fun too, because it was the primary
program! It was sooo cute to hear the
primary children bear their little testimonies in Russian...it was awesome! Love you all, and hope for the best of weeks
to be coming your way!
Love,
Elder Vincent
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