Everyone! I hope everything is going great back home! Everything is great here! We have been traveling a lot like always, we went to Moscow and Tver and then this week we are headed back to Moscow for Zone Conference. The weather is just wierd.. I don't know whether it is winter or spring, but I did hear birds chirping this morning so that is never a bad sign!
Now our investigators! We have a lot of really great investigators still! We have Alex, Slava, Sergei, Sasha, Aleksei, and Dennis. Alex is going through a really rough time right now... Satan really does not want him to get baptized! Unfortunately, he is not going to make it for baptism on the 26th like we planned with him. He has been having a lot of money problems and that has brought a lot of stress for him. It happens everytime! Right after making a decision to get baptized something huge happens and people either take a step back or work right on through the obstacle! I have seen it every single time on my mission when we have made it to the point of baptism with someone... it has done nothing but strengthen my testimony of Satan and his existence. He does everything he can to distract these people or make them forget what has happened! It really is amazing to me!
Slava is doing good. We talked to him about answers and what he is expecting to get. He said that he believes in the Bible and if he reads and compares the Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, and Book of Mormon to the Bible and finds nothing against the Bible then that means that they are scripture and our church is true. Haha he is so funny! But anyways, he has read the Book of Mormon twice and has thirty sections left in the Doctrine and Covenants and everything is going great so far! I know that he will get baptized in the end!
Sasha left the Catholic Church. He has been talking to us a lot lately about temptation, but for some reason he would never tell us exactly the problems and temptations that he is facing. Well, this past week we found a lot more! We found out that after he recieved an answer that the Church is true he left the Catholic Church and then everything went downhill! He got sick, his girlfriend got sick, his grandma didn't understand why he had to get rebaptized in our church... it all was just really confusing for him! So now he sees how hard Satan is working on him and he doesn't know what to do! Well, we are just trying to support him right now and pray for him. He will make it through!
Aleksei and Dennis are friends. We usually teach them english, but last time they came to the lesson and said that they didn't want to do english all they wanted was to talk about spiritual things! Well... we definitely weren't going to say no to that one! It was a great lesson! We talked about the Book of Mormon and Prophets and Prayer and basically a little bit of everything because they have so many questions! At the end of the lesson Dennis prayed for the first time in his entire life! He was so scared because he thought that he had to memorize the prayer, but it ended up great and the spirit was so strong! These people are amazing and we are seeing little miracles everyday as we work hard and are obedient!
Well my mission is great! I am going to try and work harder than ever to be more obedient and a more effective missionary! I know that God will bless me and bless this work. Yaroslavl is almost shrinking because so many members are planning on moving away so I only pray that we can replace these people with strong active leaders who have been prepared for this Gospel! I love you all! I am grateful for your love and support and remember who you are!
Elder Weihing :)
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