Well it really sounds like all of you have been having a great and wonderfully busy week. as i always say, y'all are such the partiers. Dad, i am glad that you had fun in kanab with the little kids. I love the good ol kanab. Angela thank you for the email. sounds like you are doing great and having fun. don't forget your lonely little sis out here in russia, YOU are too cool for school! i am glad harry potter was good. you are the best and totally cool!!!
Lets see, this week was a good week. Rachel left this week to go back home to visit her family in africa. I think she is about 21ish, and she is here because she is studying at one of the universities. Her brother is also here studying. I don't know why, but a lot of africans come here to study at the colleges. it is cool. She came to our family night on monday, and we were really excited to see her. But then she said she was going home, so that was a little sad that we could not meet with her. she is great.
This week has been a little better as far as finding some lessons to teach. President has told me time and time again that my companion has not really had many good opportunities to teach, and so I am really trying to find more lessons, even if they are just with the members in the branch. But meeting with the members in the branch is totally awesome, and you can really build up a great relationship with them, and they really help in the missionary work. They are awesome. When they trust the missionaries, that is when they will bring their friends and family to come meet with you, because they know that you as missionaries will love them and take care of them. So, we have had a few more lessons this week, and that has been very nice. I am very very grateful for that.
Saturday we moved back up to the upper apartment. I feel like I am in heaven because the apt is way way nicer and the area is really great and it is really close to the branch. So, i really love it. And, the apt is high enough in the air that we don't get many mosquitos flying in and biting us. So that is super awesome. AND, when the landlord was just here fixing things up, there was a dishwasher in the apt. that never worked, and then they fixed it. It is totally AWESOME!!! and it takes so less time to wash the dishes. just give the dishes a quick rinse, stick them in the washer, and WALLA! your ready to go! when i used it the other day for the first time it was totally totally weird. at the same time i kinda want to go back to washing all the dishes by hand. I am just so used to it already. I have not used a dishwasher in a year and a half now. weird.
Sunday was a good meeting. I spoke in sacrament about the scriptures. It was short and to the point, but I think it went well. Luckily, i wasn't too nervous about the speaking russian in front of a large group thing. But, i am a little more nervous about the sunday school lesson that they asked me to give this next sunday. Because i have to speak in russian and involve all the people and make it interesting for them and such. And i can't just read from a paper. And the words i may need to use are quite large. I am speaking about the second coming and about the signs of the second coming. We will see how it goes. it will be great!!
So the other day I was humbled and realized that i need to have more faith in the Lord and in other people. As you know we have been having trouble finding people to teach, and contacting all the time is not super effective. And so I decided to start calling people from the area book. Most of them didn't answer or didn't want to meet or didn't have time, etc. etc. etc. And then I called this one girl Nastia, and asked her if she wanted to meet. And she right off the bat said "ya, maybe tomorrow! what time?!" i was a little surprised and was like oh cool, maybe 12. And she said ok, lets meet at the one square by the statue. and i thought cool!!! But then i started thinking too much about it and thought, there is no way that she is going to come. This is sketchy. She probably just asked us to meet there and she just wont even show up. And so the next day we waiting at the square. And she hadn't come for about 10 minutes. and i thought yep, i am right. she probably won't show up. And i was getting ready to be like ok, lets go. But then, i saw this girl like running up to us and i thought weird. that is probably her. And it was!!!! i was totally surprised but way excited. We took her to the branch and taught her english and then talked about the restoration. She said she already had a book of mormon, and that she would actually read it, and then she was like I want to meet again, maybe tomorrow?! And i was like sweet. of course we can meet tomorrow. Sadly, she forgot about our lesson yesterday evening.......but, it was a little miracle about seeing her in general. And we might meet with her on friday. She does go away for a week to some kind of camp, but I was still grateful that I had the chance to meet her and get to know her. I really pray the sisters after me keep in touch with her and teach her. she is really great.
So something i was thinking a lot about yesterday. We had a lesson with a member, and then she started asking us about why we came on a mission in general. If someone made us, or if we wanted too, or if we felt we needed to. etc etc. And so i started telling her about my story and how i received my answer, and how even though i was really scared and nervous about the whole thing, i had received my answer and could not deny the fact. So anyways, she said "you were scared? That's weird, because you don't seem at all scared to me now. You seem very confident to me" And i got thinking about this. Because I do feel good. And president keeps telling me about how he has seen my confidence grow in the mission field. And that is great. But at the same time a little sad and confusing. Because it is like the moment you feel comfortable, the moment you feel like you know kinda what you are doing, the moment you really get used to things, the moment you really start to love the people and the place, the moment you really start to just feel happy where you are, that is the exact moment that you got to leave to go home, and then just leave that all behind you. If sisters stayed in the mission field 6 more months like the elders, i really think they could do a lot more. and if only we came out into the mission field feeling like this, think of all the amazing things and wonders we could do on the mission just right off the bat. It is kinda interesting. I don't understand it all. I guess it just teaches us to love today, and make every moment count. Don't get me wrong, it is exciting and seems like a new adventure to start "normal life" again. But at the same time it makes you nervous, and I just wish that we could always feel comfortable and confident in what we are doing at all times. I wanted to explain that all in different words. don't really know if it all makes sense. It my mind in does, but for some reason when I try to put the words on paper it just doesn't sound the same : )
D-MAN!!!! Happy birthday next week!!!! the big 20!!!! yea! have a party for me!!!! Love you lots! to the moon and back!
Well, i love you all. Thanks for the emails. glad the week was good. Have fun this week and be safe and do what is right. Remember i love you. Until next week!!!
Hugs and kisses!
Sister Brown
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