It is great to hear from you as always, and i am glad to hear everyone had such an exciting and busy week! I hope you told everyone down in kanab hello for me. Dallin from what i hear your birthday sounded like a lot of fun! for that i am glad. So how is the driving going dad? and you broke your nose? oh my goodness. noelle already broke a bone and now you too? who next?! honestly dad when i heard that you would be driving buses around i got a little nervous! you be careful driving those big things around ok? Spencer!! I heard about the big engagement!!! CONGRATS cuz!! that is very exciting!
welp, missionary work is moving along as usual this week. We are still working with our investigators. Things are going a little slow, but we try to use all our extra time to find more people that are ready to accept the gospel. Oh, my companion and i have a new goal to find a family!!! Families are rarely found and taught the gospel here, but we always see this cute little family outside playin on the playground with their son, and we really have a desire to bring a family into the church. We are excited, and we continue to pray that we may be able to find those that the Lord has prepared, and that those the Lord has prepared will some how find us. The temple dedication for the Kiev, Ukraine temple will be on August 29, and everyone is getting very excited for it. It will be closer for the people here than the finland temple. Most of the members around here travel about 30 hours i think to get to the Finland temple, and the kiev temple will be a little closer so that is great! I can't wait until the day that we can see a temple built in Russia! I don't know how soon that will be, but when the day comes it will be amazing. The sacrifices people make here to get to the temple are amazing. And all we have to do is walk out our door and a temple is in sight. And if you drive 20 minutes north or south, you will see many more temples. Wow! I feel spoiled. My companion just laughs and thinks it is absolutely crazy at how many temples we have in utah. I told her maybe someday down the road Russia will be the same :)
It is has been extremely hot as usual this week. It has made the contacting and missionary work a lot harder. Not as many people seem to be outside because of the heat, and walking around in the blazing sun is just not so comfortable all the time. But you do what you gotta do. The last couple nights when we have gone to bed (10:30) it has been 90 degrees in our apartment!! crazy huh? and thats at night! I go to bed all nasty and sweaty, and i wake up again in the morning all sweaty. its fun. There is like no use taking a shower because the moment you step out your already sweating again. who knew it ever got this hot in russia? and why did no one tell me??? The days here often reach over 100 degrees, and its not dry like utah. I would actually compare it to south carolina with the humidity and everything.
So yes, my adventure to kiev was pretty eventful, and by the end of the day i was completely exhausted! Thursday afternoon i got on a night train with the other elders and sisters being transferred around. And this was the hottest night train i have ever been on! it was ridiculous. anyways. So we arrived in moscow at 5 am on friday, and headed over to the central church building there. And then we met up with the 7 of us who were going on the visa trip and headed to the airport. We just sat there and waited for a few hours and then got on our flight to kiev. We got to kiev, only stayed in the airport, grabbed our new visas, and headed right back to moscow on our next plane(after a little delay). Then we got to moscow in the evening, went to the mission office to get some paper work done, saw a few of the missionaries who were transferring, and then that night i headed back to voronezh on another night train, and got back here early saturday morning. I was exhausted, but i think all i really wanted to do was to take a nice shower because when we left thursday i never had the time to take a shower, because they turned off our water without telling us. and then by the time it came back on, the water was bright red from all the rust and nasties. Ah, oh well. its good now. BUT, i am grateful because i now have a visa and can be in russia for at least three more months, until i have to make another trip in october.
Well, i think thats enough for this week. Oh my funny story. Well its not something funny i did...but something funny someone said to me and i just wanted to tell you. So you know that the people here are kinda blunt right? ok, so we met with a woman the other day, and one of the first things she says is she tells my companion and me that it looks like i am getting fatter. I didn't understand at the moment, but i could tell that she said something a little fishy, So i asked my companion about it later, and thats what she said. I feel like normally i'd be really offended and upset about it, but i just had to laugh about it. I just think its hilarious that that woman felt that was an appropriate thing to say. But then again, here you just say what you think and there is nothing else to it!
dman, i heard about your birthday from everyone else but i want to hear about it from you! XOxoxoXoXOXo
Ok, sorry, well back to closing. I love you all! Stay safe and be good! Until next week!
All my love,
Sister Brown
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