Hey! All I can really say is another great week in the MTC and only three more to go! I will be in Russia converting the nation before I know it! Anyways, thank you all so much for all of your letters and e mails of support and love! I really enjoy hearing from everyone it really makes my day that much better hearing from you all! I am so thankful to have such and amazaing group of family and friends who never cease to amaze and teach me! Thank you for your amazing examples and advice!
Well let's see what happened this week... We had a group of new Elder's and Sister's come in this week. It was a crazy week because Elder Brown and I were so busy getting all of them organized and on the right track we never had to time study! Aka I am counting on the Lord's help on still being where I am supposed to be in the language and everything else! I am not too worried about that tho...
Of the Elder's one of them that came was one of my friends so that was cool. We had 11 Elders arrive, 1 English Sister, and 2 Native Russian Sisters. I feel so bad for the only English Sister! she will learn so much from the russian Sister's but I bet she feels so intimidated! They are all doing great though. The Russian Native Sister's went through and revieved their endowments today... these experiences that I have had in the temple with the Russian's are irreplaceable! I love them so much more after because they bring such and amazaing appreciation for the temple to every person there! I love the Temple so much!
I found out some pretty tizight stuff about Russian missions this week. One member of our Branch Presidency used to be a Russian Mission President and he told us that it costs the Church $2000 a month per missionary in Russia! Wow! That totals to around $50,000 in the two years I am there! Jeez that makes me so much more grateful for this opportunity I have to serve and for this once in a lifetime experience that I am going to have. It makes me want to work just that much harder to meet my full potential that the Lord knows that I am capable of! I also found out that there are a total of 40 missionaries in the Moscow West Mission, 10 are Elder's from America and 30 are Elders from Russia... I am going to have a lot Native compaions who don't speak much English so... we will see how that goes! Hopefully I can communicate with him! I can't wait to leave for Russia on December 14th!
So Thanksgiving is coming up in two days! Wow! What happened?! I swear it was just Halloween? Mission time is so wierd.. it goes by almost too fast! Well for Thanksgiving I know that we are having some kind of Thanksgiving meal and then the rest of the day we are doing a huge service project! I honestly can't wait! It is going to be such a blast! And then to make things even better, Thanksgiving night we are going to be having a "special speaker" aka I am guessing an Apostle! That is very exciting! I heard a rumor, I wont tell you where, that it is going to be Elder Holland aka greatest speaker of all time!
Well I heard that Brother Wilkey called and talked to you for a bit eh dad? How was it? How was talking to my mission President? Let's hear what happened? Get som good details about the mish for me? PS if kerry and shantel are reading this I am a bit disappointed in you two and you both know why and I am disappointed in justin too... I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM YOU IN AWHILE! STEP IT UP! JK I know life is busy and I love you all :)
Anyways I am having a great time here and cannot wait to get to Russia to serve the lord!I can't wait to get to work! I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and know that I love you so much.. you have helped me out more than I ever deserved! I can't wait to hear back from you! Remever who you are!
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