Monday, March 14, 2011

Hello From Yaro

Well I am sorry to say but yet again I do not have time to write! Haha we are leaving town again today to travel to Moscow and then to Tver to work with other Elders and I have to have a few baptismal interviews with their investigators there. So.. we have a lot to do today and no time to do it! P-Day is supposed to be a time when you kinda rest and all of that stuff... but there is always too many things to do and too many places to go to rest.. but hey did I come on a mission to have P-Day or to work???

My Birthday was awesome this past week! The Forsyths made me breakfast and gave me a few little presents. One of the Sisters here, Sister Naluvkina, has been going crazy with oragami for some reason and she has been trying to teach me so on my birthday I opened a present from her of about 100 little oragami horses that I helped her fold earlier this week. Haha people give strange presents sometimes but it was hilarious! They also got me a stuffed camel, his name is Marcel. They said that it is because I love Kazakhstan! I had a great time! Other than that we had a normal day like everyday on the mission :) we contacted and taught people. The night of my birthday we happened to have a branch activity and that was pretty fun. It was an activity to celebrate Womens Day! They have a huge holiday here in Russia on March 8th for women. No one works and you always have to give presents and congradulate every woman you see!! It was a great opportunity for contacting :) good approach! "Happy Holiday! I wish you joy, good furtune, and good health! Have you ever heard of the Book of Mormon?" Haha it was awesome!

This week we also went to a play! It was really cool! The theater that we went to is the first theater that was every built in Russia! The play was.. interesting! Haha to be honest it was really hard to understand because it was kinda like a futuristic play and everyone had either high alien voices or deep machine voices! But, it was still awesome! My first real play in Russia!

The work is going great, despite all of the traveling that we are doing, but I am kinda frustrated because our investigators are either not getting answers to their prayers or they are not understanding the answers that they are getting! We now have three investigators who are amazing and are sincerely searching for truth. We have Slava, Alex, and Sergei. They are reading the Book of Mormon and some of them even the Doctrine and Covenants. They are praying. But, they are not getting or understanding what they are getting! We traveled to Ribinsk, which is a city where Slava lives, and had a great discussion with him! At the end of the lesson we all got down on our knees and Slava prayed about the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants. The spirit was strong! But, he said that he didn't feel anything! The prayer was so sincere and now I am just confused on how he didn't feel it?? These people are all great! Everyone of them has been a miracle for me! What do we have to do to help them take that last step and show a little faith!? Alex looked at me the other day after one of our lessons and said, "Elder Weihing, getting an answer to my prayer about the Book of Mormon is the breaking point." Such sincerity! I am just amazing at these people and how they want to find out what God wants them to do! They are searching his will!

On Saturday we went down as a District and with one other member of the church. We found a gazibo type thing and we got around in a circle and everyone of us said a prayer for the city. It was a kind of like a blessing on the city to rebuke Satan and ask for divine help. The prayers were amazing! The Spirit was so strong! We even recorded the prayers so that the branch would have them on record! I know that God heard our prayers as we asked him to bless our investigators, bless this city, strengthen this branch, and inspire the missionaries and disciples of Christ who are searching for His chosen sons and daughters. God heard us and now we just have to do our part and show the faith! This is Gods work and he will bless us as we work hard! The field is white and now we just have to harvest it! We are the hunters and we needs to take advantage of every opportunity to share this eternal message with our borthers and sisters seeking!

The Work is going on! The Church is true! My mission is amazing and getting better everyday! Miracles are on their way and maybe even already here! I love you all and am grateful for your love and prayers on my behalf! Thank you for everything and remember who you are!

Elder Weihing :)