Subject: Hey Everyone!
Hey Everyone! I hope everyone is doing great and holding strong to the Iron Rod :) Well the work is still moving at a pace that I can barely keep up with! We are so busy all day everyday it is such a blessing! This week Elder Nutt and I found out that he is going to be transferred to Moscow and is going to be and Assistant to the President. He is not excited because he does not want to leave Kazakhstan. I am sad to see him go but know that he will be an amazing leader of the mission.
My new companion is going to be Elder Brown's current companion. (Elder Brown was my comp in the MTC and is still in Kazakhstan with me) His name is Elder Malanin. He is a native Russian, so my Russian is going to be getting a lot better a lot faster! I am really excited to start working with him and see where things take us! hopefully he will bring new advice and ideas on how to help our investigators progress!
Elder Nutt and I are really excited for this Saturday because Sergei is going to get baptized. He is amazing! He was asking about missionary work this past week and how we can grow the church in Kazakhstan. I think he is really interested on going on a mini mission. He is going to be an amazing member. Elder Nutt is going to baptizing him and I am going to speak on the Holy Ghost at the service. It is going to be great! All of our investigators are going to miss Elder Nutt so we have been meeting with a lot of them lately so that he can see them before he leaves. Nona is doing great and still reading. The family we are teaching has kind of come to a still but maybe when I get Elder Malanin that will help them progress because he will be able to understand them a lot better than either of us, Those are our main investigators.
Yesterday Elder Nutt and I went to a New Members home. A member who elder Nutt baptized before I got to Kazakhstan. His name is Bahit and is amazing! He is such a strong member! He is about 30 years old. He has had some really amazing experiences in his life and has truly recognized the hand of the Lord in his life. Anyways, elder Nutt said he was a great cook so we went over to see him. Wow.. he lives in such humble circumstances. He basically lives in an old shack with two small rooms. In one room is two chairs a small table and a small bookcase full of a few books. the next room is a small kitchen. The spirit was so strong in there! We had an amazing meal and then had a small lesson. I learned more from him than he learned from me I can bet on that one... he is amazing!
Well I love you all so much! thanks for all of the support and prayers! don't ever forget the role that the Lord has played in your life and always realize how blessed you are! Remember who you are :)
Elder Weihing
Monday, April 26, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Hello everyone! Things are just going great in Kazakhstan! I hope everything is going great in America!
Well Sergei is still planning on being baptized! He is going to be an amazing member! This past week his mom got hit by a car and yesterday he found out that she is going to be ok, so that brought new relief to him. He is amazing and I can't wait to see where his membership in the church takes him. Sasha and Lela, the family we teach, are doing great. We still have not made a ton of progress with them, but we found out that they are really interested in family history :) just yet another amazing resource that the church offers! So we are going to be teaching them about that very soon and are excited to see where that takes them! Nona is still reading the Book of Mormon and is probably going to finish before I do lol she is an amazing lady! We just need to get her to pray to find out whether the Book of Mormon is true or not!
Well transfers are coming up in like two weeks and Elder Nutt is really nervous that he is leaving Kazakhstan. He loves it here and doesn't want to leave, he has been here for ten months! But, we know for sure that we are going to get split up this transfer we just don't know exactly what is going to happen. I am down for going to Russia and getting 100 times better at the language! But, we will see how things go I guess.
Well it's an amazing time to be alive and be on a mission! The work is great and I absolutely love it! I hope everything is going great at home! I would really love to hear from more of you :) no pressure tho... I love you and thank you for all of the support!
ELDER WEIHING remember who you are :)
Well Sergei is still planning on being baptized! He is going to be an amazing member! This past week his mom got hit by a car and yesterday he found out that she is going to be ok, so that brought new relief to him. He is amazing and I can't wait to see where his membership in the church takes him. Sasha and Lela, the family we teach, are doing great. We still have not made a ton of progress with them, but we found out that they are really interested in family history :) just yet another amazing resource that the church offers! So we are going to be teaching them about that very soon and are excited to see where that takes them! Nona is still reading the Book of Mormon and is probably going to finish before I do lol she is an amazing lady! We just need to get her to pray to find out whether the Book of Mormon is true or not!
Well transfers are coming up in like two weeks and Elder Nutt is really nervous that he is leaving Kazakhstan. He loves it here and doesn't want to leave, he has been here for ten months! But, we know for sure that we are going to get split up this transfer we just don't know exactly what is going to happen. I am down for going to Russia and getting 100 times better at the language! But, we will see how things go I guess.
Well it's an amazing time to be alive and be on a mission! The work is great and I absolutely love it! I hope everything is going great at home! I would really love to hear from more of you :) no pressure tho... I love you and thank you for all of the support!
ELDER WEIHING remember who you are :)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
April 7, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Hello Everyone! :)
It's been a great week! Last Saturday Sasha got baptized! It was and amazing experience and I even had the opportunity to speak at his baptism! Lol it was quite the experience, actually I did quite well on the talk and I got a lot of compliments on my Russian. Sasha is going to be an amazing member! He is not my investigator, but I kind of feel like it just because we are really good friends. He has been at the church everyday since his baptism helping out the missionaries on lessons. He had us over for dinner last night because it was his birthday and we got to meet his family. They are all amazing!
Elder Nutt and I set a baptismal date with a man named Sergei this past week! He is so tight too! He is about 6'5 and about 30 years old. He just came to church one day and Elder Nutt and I started teaching him. On about our third lesson with him he asked about baptism and then the next lesson we committed him and he accepted! He is amazing a basically already acts like a member. He comes to church every week, to all the activities, and is always friendly and talking to everyone. Our last lesson he asked if he could bring his friends and so now he is bringing some friends to church on Sunday! Haha he is the man! Elder Nutt and I also wanted to give out another baptismal commitment last night to a woman named Olessa, but she ended up not being able to come.. but we are still planning on doing that if the Spirit is strong!
Elder Nutt is really worried that he is going to be leaving this next transfer because he has already been here for almost ten months so we have been working really hard to focus on our investigators whom are close to baptism. He really wants to see them get baptized before he leaves!
Well the Russian is still coming along! Elder Nutt and I have a new goal together with our Zone to speak nothing but Russian with each other.. I am really happy because that is what I have wanted from the beginning! This next group to go home in about three weeks are the oldest missionaries by a whole year. So, the oldest missionaries after they leave will have only been on their missions for only one year! this is because of that gap they had when they stopped sending missionaries to Russia. So we are all really young and have to get really good at the language really fast! So, hopefully I will just forget all of my English by the time I get home!
Well the work is moving along! It is amazing and has already been one of the greatest blessings of my life! This choice to serve has been the best choice I have ever made up to this point in my life! I love you all! Thank you for all that you do! They church is true! Remember who you are!
Elder Weihing :)
It's been a great week! Last Saturday Sasha got baptized! It was and amazing experience and I even had the opportunity to speak at his baptism! Lol it was quite the experience, actually I did quite well on the talk and I got a lot of compliments on my Russian. Sasha is going to be an amazing member! He is not my investigator, but I kind of feel like it just because we are really good friends. He has been at the church everyday since his baptism helping out the missionaries on lessons. He had us over for dinner last night because it was his birthday and we got to meet his family. They are all amazing!
Elder Nutt and I set a baptismal date with a man named Sergei this past week! He is so tight too! He is about 6'5 and about 30 years old. He just came to church one day and Elder Nutt and I started teaching him. On about our third lesson with him he asked about baptism and then the next lesson we committed him and he accepted! He is amazing a basically already acts like a member. He comes to church every week, to all the activities, and is always friendly and talking to everyone. Our last lesson he asked if he could bring his friends and so now he is bringing some friends to church on Sunday! Haha he is the man! Elder Nutt and I also wanted to give out another baptismal commitment last night to a woman named Olessa, but she ended up not being able to come.. but we are still planning on doing that if the Spirit is strong!
Elder Nutt is really worried that he is going to be leaving this next transfer because he has already been here for almost ten months so we have been working really hard to focus on our investigators whom are close to baptism. He really wants to see them get baptized before he leaves!
Well the Russian is still coming along! Elder Nutt and I have a new goal together with our Zone to speak nothing but Russian with each other.. I am really happy because that is what I have wanted from the beginning! This next group to go home in about three weeks are the oldest missionaries by a whole year. So, the oldest missionaries after they leave will have only been on their missions for only one year! this is because of that gap they had when they stopped sending missionaries to Russia. So we are all really young and have to get really good at the language really fast! So, hopefully I will just forget all of my English by the time I get home!
Well the work is moving along! It is amazing and has already been one of the greatest blessings of my life! This choice to serve has been the best choice I have ever made up to this point in my life! I love you all! Thank you for all that you do! They church is true! Remember who you are!
Elder Weihing :)
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Well not too much happened this week that was really really exciting :) but the work is going on and we are still preaching the gospel!
We have a pretty good teaching pool of investigators. Sasha and Lela, the family of six, are doing really well. We had one of the returned missionaries, Max, on a lesson with us and it went great. Usually we are supposed to teach them english, but things always end up where Sasha ends up going off on something about God haha it is so awesome! Sasha loves to just sit there and talk about God and what he think about him, he literally could talk for hours about it! Sometimes he goes off forever about things we completely don't understand, so it was really nice to have someone there who knows what the heck he is talking about! So, that was really nice. They always leave the lessons saying how every lesson just gets more and more interesting and how we just have more and more fun each time. It really is amazing how our relationship with them has changed as we have been teaching them. They are not only investigators, but I consider them really good friends!
Nona, the grandma that we teach, is doing great. She is still reading the Book of Mormon and is in Third Nephi! She is reading it so fast! She is a really nice lady! She always walks in the church, because that is where we have our lessons, and she says, "ok where are my boys?" haha she always refers to us as our boys. We had a really interesting lesson with her this last week where we just sang. haha she says that she loves songs, so we just sang hymns the whole time. She loved it. But, now that she is reading in Third Nephi we have started watching the Testaments. The only problem with her is that she thinks the Book of Mormon is just a history and not scripture, so I am trying to figure out how we can better portray the message of the Book of Mormon being the word of God...
This Saturday is another baptism. Another companionship's investigator is getting baptized. His name is Sasha. He is a 19 year old kid and he is the man! I guess he is like the weight lifting champion of Kazakhstan in his division. He also is a pretty famous DJ around here in Kazakhstan lol his DJ name is DJ Pengvin. He is so tight lol! He has had a lot of problems in the past, like I guess the missionaries had a baptismal date with him once before but it fell through. He is a really spiritual guy, very simple and just wants to do what God wants him to do. He is just scared and has not always felt like he is worthy enough... When I first met him he was really quite, but actually we became really good friends! These past few weeks he has been at the church a lot and I always try and just hang out with him haha we have a good time. So, on his baptism this Saturday he asked me to give the talk before he gets baptized.. haha that is going to be really interesting! Pray for me that I get through the talk in Russian! Jk it will be fine, but of course I am a little nervous..
This Sunday is Easter! The Russian tradition is really weird, I guess that you are supposed to paint red eggs and then go give them to people and say," Jesus is resurrected!" and then when they accept the egg they say, "He truly is resurrected!" haha so it is a funny tradition. We made eggs and are going to give them to all of the members on Sunday, so we will see how is goes haha especially because these aren't Russians they are Kazakh people..
Well the language is pushing along. Haha the only reason I am frustrated is because I can understand really well I just can't talk haha... but I can talk about the church! It is coming along though and I am studies hard... I am starting to just sit down and translate things from Russian to English for my language study so we will see how that helps :) Well I hope everyone has a great week! I will talk to you next week! I love you! Remember who you are!
ELDER WEIHING
We have a pretty good teaching pool of investigators. Sasha and Lela, the family of six, are doing really well. We had one of the returned missionaries, Max, on a lesson with us and it went great. Usually we are supposed to teach them english, but things always end up where Sasha ends up going off on something about God haha it is so awesome! Sasha loves to just sit there and talk about God and what he think about him, he literally could talk for hours about it! Sometimes he goes off forever about things we completely don't understand, so it was really nice to have someone there who knows what the heck he is talking about! So, that was really nice. They always leave the lessons saying how every lesson just gets more and more interesting and how we just have more and more fun each time. It really is amazing how our relationship with them has changed as we have been teaching them. They are not only investigators, but I consider them really good friends!
Nona, the grandma that we teach, is doing great. She is still reading the Book of Mormon and is in Third Nephi! She is reading it so fast! She is a really nice lady! She always walks in the church, because that is where we have our lessons, and she says, "ok where are my boys?" haha she always refers to us as our boys. We had a really interesting lesson with her this last week where we just sang. haha she says that she loves songs, so we just sang hymns the whole time. She loved it. But, now that she is reading in Third Nephi we have started watching the Testaments. The only problem with her is that she thinks the Book of Mormon is just a history and not scripture, so I am trying to figure out how we can better portray the message of the Book of Mormon being the word of God...
This Saturday is another baptism. Another companionship's investigator is getting baptized. His name is Sasha. He is a 19 year old kid and he is the man! I guess he is like the weight lifting champion of Kazakhstan in his division. He also is a pretty famous DJ around here in Kazakhstan lol his DJ name is DJ Pengvin. He is so tight lol! He has had a lot of problems in the past, like I guess the missionaries had a baptismal date with him once before but it fell through. He is a really spiritual guy, very simple and just wants to do what God wants him to do. He is just scared and has not always felt like he is worthy enough... When I first met him he was really quite, but actually we became really good friends! These past few weeks he has been at the church a lot and I always try and just hang out with him haha we have a good time. So, on his baptism this Saturday he asked me to give the talk before he gets baptized.. haha that is going to be really interesting! Pray for me that I get through the talk in Russian! Jk it will be fine, but of course I am a little nervous..
This Sunday is Easter! The Russian tradition is really weird, I guess that you are supposed to paint red eggs and then go give them to people and say," Jesus is resurrected!" and then when they accept the egg they say, "He truly is resurrected!" haha so it is a funny tradition. We made eggs and are going to give them to all of the members on Sunday, so we will see how is goes haha especially because these aren't Russians they are Kazakh people..
Well the language is pushing along. Haha the only reason I am frustrated is because I can understand really well I just can't talk haha... but I can talk about the church! It is coming along though and I am studies hard... I am starting to just sit down and translate things from Russian to English for my language study so we will see how that helps :) Well I hope everyone has a great week! I will talk to you next week! I love you! Remember who you are!
ELDER WEIHING
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