Monday, February 14, 2011

Hello From Yaro

Hello Family and Friends!

Well what a week! President gave us a commitment last week when he was here to pick up two new investigators this week so we have been working our butts off to meet that goal and we saw miracles because of it! In the end we came out with three new investigators instead of two! We just had to show President up a little bit.. all of the new investigators are true miracles. We found one while contacting on the street. His name is Vladimir. We stopped him and he already knew who we are. He said a few years ago he was meeting with the missionaries and that it was very interesting and that he wanted to meet with us again and then he gave us his number. It was awesome! He is alone in life and does not have a family or many friends. He just works. He came to church on Sunday and talked about how hard it was to keep all of the commandments and so we sat down and talked about it... He is an awesome guy and is very humble. It really feels like he is searching and wants to do what is right.. he just doesn't know where to start. The next investigator is a man named Sergei. A few weeks ago we gave him a Book of Mormon. When we called him he said that he was planning on calling us, he has read the entire Book of Mormon and he wants to meet. So we met with him and we found out that he has been through a lot in life! He has literally died two times and been brought back to life. After those experiences he realized that God has a plan for him.. well it was perfect because that was our message to him! God does have a plan for him! So he seems to be pretty interested! Our third investigator was an old investigator in Tver. He moved here from Tver and we haven't met with him yet but they said that he is awesome. His family in Tver was completely against the church, but he loves the church. So now he is here and we will see what happens! His name is Aleksei.

So I know that Elder Nickols is going to be coming to Russia this next week. I think that Elder Brown is going to be training him! I don't know for sure, but that is what I think I heard. So that is awesome because Elder Brown is the Man! His trainer is one of the best missionaries in our mission! They will work hard and see miracles!

This week has been freezing! The past few days have been -25 and I am not liking it! The mission is going great! I love it! My companion is doing awesome! His jokes still don't make sense but that is ok because I realized that my jokes don't make sense to him either! He is working hard. He has a great desire to change himself and to help other people. Our work together is going great and we are praying for miracles! This city and branch has got to see a baptism so wake it up!!!

Yesterday we celebrated Sister Forsyths birthday and it was awesome! She helps us so much and always cooks for us so we made her take a break from cooking and we made some food for her. We sang a good happy birthyday song for her and made her a posterboard of our painted handprints. We also made her a new cookbook because her cookbook is thrashed and we put our pictures and testimonies in the cookbook. Of course this was not our idea because we are not that smart and could not think up something like that but it was a members idea :) SO it went great!

Well I love you all! Remember who you are!

Elder Weihing :)