Subject: Long Time No Talk!
Well, I finally found time to e-mail you! Sorry it has been so long, I was in Moscow and then this last p-day I was in Kiev on a Visa Trip. Wow! A lot has happened!
First of all Kiev was amazing! We BARELY made it to the temple session on time! It is a long story how that happened... Elder Brown and Waite and I landed it Kiev and we had about two hours or so to get to the temple so we were no too worried about getting there on time. So we started searching for a taxi and there was one guy (like the head of all the taxis) from Kiev helping us, but no one wanted to take us because the temple is so far away! Well, he finally found us a taxi and we started driving out there. We started talking to the driver and soon we found out the he had no idea who the guy was (aka the leader guy of all the taxis helping us) and the guy just told him to take us to Kiev and not to the temple! That is only about half way to the temple and we still had to pay the full price to the temple! Well, we didn't have time to argue about what happened so we had to give him all of the money, get out, and take the Metro as close to the temple as we could get and then take another taxi the rest of the way! Well, thank goodness the next taxi driver was the man! He was weaving in and out of traffic like I used to before my mission and we got there right as the session was about to start! God really blessed us because I swear it was impossible to get there in time!! The temple was an amazing experience! It is a very beautiful temple and we ended up seeing a lot of the missionaries in the temple that we served with in the MTC so that was crazy!
The week before this past p-day we were in Moscow. It was a good time! We had Zone Conference on Wednesday and got permission from president to use our p-day in Moscow on Thursday so we went everywhere! It was awesome! We went to the Moscow Hard Rock Cafe, and had Duncan Donuts, and we went to the WW2 Museum which is gorgeous! It Is huge! We went to the market and I bought some sweet ties for 3 dollars each and I also bought some pretty sweet Shapkas which are those huge russian hats! I also found out that there is a guy in Moscow or somewhere that makes the little doll things that you guys want but he paints all of the modern day prophets from Joseph Smith and on on there! Sweet huh! So I ordered some of those for myself :)
Well we have a lot of awesome work right now in Voronesh! We are finally done with all of our traveling for a while and now we can relax and focus a lot more on the work and our investigators! We set a baptismal date with a friend of a member two days ago. He is from Uzbekistan and his name is Igor. He is awesome! He is going to get baptized in about a month. We are also going to try and set a baptismal date with a brother of a member, and his name is Losha, this week :) We have found a lot of new people and now we are excited to teach them! It is summer and people are out and happy and now is the time to find and teach and baptize! By the way I also found out when I was in Moscow that my coming home date probably got pushed back about one week or so so that is awesome! I think now I will be coming home sometime in the beginning of November! Oh and if you all don't know they are finally organizing a stake in Moscow! Elder Nelson is coming to Moscow in about a week or so to do it... so you know what that means! Mabye soon there will be a temple!!
Well I love you all! thanks for the love and support and all of the letters! It is great to hear from you all! :) Have a great week!
Elder Weihing
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