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
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