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 :)
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