Well my first real transfer on my mission is finally coming up! I know that I am not going to be leaving and thank goodness because I love it here! Today the President is flying down to Kazakhstan to have a Zone Conference with us and then he is staying to see the baptisms on Saturday! It is going to be great!
So I guess a lot of people still don't understand the me being in Kazakhstan thing so let me explain... My Mission is the Moscow West Mission. It includes cities which surround Moscow, also Belarus, and also Kazakhstan. But, in Kazakhstan and Belarus we only can be in one city. So, that is why I am in Kazakhstan and not Russia.
Well the sad news of the week... Our investigators are not prepared for baptism this Saturday :( so that sucks really bad... Katya (our Golden Investigator) could not ever meet within the past two weeks so we couldn't help here progress and now she is doubting the thought of baptism because she was already baptized when she was a baby in the Russian Orthodox Church... so we really need to meet with her again as soon as we can to clear her doubts up! Luckily she already has that foundation and testimony of the Book Of Mormon so I know that it will work out in the end..
Rooslan, our other should be baptism, has stopped coming to church and never has time to meet with us either. He used to come every Sunday and then we would just pull him aside and teach him as much as we can. He is the one who usually comes to church all the time but is not a member. So we need to work really hard to get him baptized.
Nona, the grandma we teach, is doing really good! She is not ready for baptism yet but we are doing great progress with her! I feel really good about how much we are progressing with here because Elder Nutt said that before I came she had not progressed for almost seven months! She would not even look at the Book of Mormon. Now she is almost to Alma and is doing amazing! This last week we watched the movie called Journey of Faith with her.. It was amazing! The movie just goes through where Nephi and Lehi possibly could have traveled and just explain their story in really deep detail.. it is a great movie and I definitely recommend it!!
I have like ten piano students and we also have 5 english students... so it has been crazy! Our days are packed and busy! Sometimes I really get down because I was called here to preach the gospel and not teach piano and such things.. with our english students we can lead into the Gospel really easily and that is actually where a lot of gospel investigators come from. But, most of my Piano students are investigators of another companionship, already members of the ward, or just not at all interested... So I am trying to figure out how I can lessen those lessons..
There was an older couple who were here but they left last week. Their name is Shaw. Last night we got a new old couple and their name is Moore. I have not had much time to talk with them but I am hoping that maybe one of them knows how to play piano so maybe they can help me out with those lessons.. haha it was kind of funny though because Elder Nutt and I had so many lessons the past week that we accidently almost broke the Mission record! But, then we realized it was because of all of the piano lessons lol..
This week I have progressed so much in the language! I finally had an experience where I stopped someone on the street and understood everything that they said! I am learning so much every single day! Obviously somedays are better than others and I have my up days and down days but eh I am having a good time and loving every good and even bad day!
I have felt the Spirit very strongly this past week.. it is really interesting how the Spirit works. I have felt it in such a different way here than I ever have on my mission... it comes to me more as a feeling of peace and knowing that everything will be ok as long as I do all that I can... I working really hard at trying to recognize and work with the Spirit, it can be really hard to recognize sometimes tho! :) but I guess that is an eternal process!
Well I hope that life is going great back home! It is great to hear from you! I feel the effects of your prayers and thoughts everyday! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Weihing
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