Hello Everyone! :)
It's been a great week! Last Saturday Sasha got baptized! It was and amazing experience and I even had the opportunity to speak at his baptism! Lol it was quite the experience, actually I did quite well on the talk and I got a lot of compliments on my Russian. Sasha is going to be an amazing member! He is not my investigator, but I kind of feel like it just because we are really good friends. He has been at the church everyday since his baptism helping out the missionaries on lessons. He had us over for dinner last night because it was his birthday and we got to meet his family. They are all amazing!
Elder Nutt and I set a baptismal date with a man named Sergei this past week! He is so tight too! He is about 6'5 and about 30 years old. He just came to church one day and Elder Nutt and I started teaching him. On about our third lesson with him he asked about baptism and then the next lesson we committed him and he accepted! He is amazing a basically already acts like a member. He comes to church every week, to all the activities, and is always friendly and talking to everyone. Our last lesson he asked if he could bring his friends and so now he is bringing some friends to church on Sunday! Haha he is the man! Elder Nutt and I also wanted to give out another baptismal commitment last night to a woman named Olessa, but she ended up not being able to come.. but we are still planning on doing that if the Spirit is strong!
Elder Nutt is really worried that he is going to be leaving this next transfer because he has already been here for almost ten months so we have been working really hard to focus on our investigators whom are close to baptism. He really wants to see them get baptized before he leaves!
Well the Russian is still coming along! Elder Nutt and I have a new goal together with our Zone to speak nothing but Russian with each other.. I am really happy because that is what I have wanted from the beginning! This next group to go home in about three weeks are the oldest missionaries by a whole year. So, the oldest missionaries after they leave will have only been on their missions for only one year! this is because of that gap they had when they stopped sending missionaries to Russia. So we are all really young and have to get really good at the language really fast! So, hopefully I will just forget all of my English by the time I get home!
Well the work is moving along! It is amazing and has already been one of the greatest blessings of my life! This choice to serve has been the best choice I have ever made up to this point in my life! I love you all! Thank you for all that you do! They church is true! Remember who you are!
Elder Weihing :)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Well not too much happened this week that was really really exciting :) but the work is going on and we are still preaching the gospel!
We have a pretty good teaching pool of investigators. Sasha and Lela, the family of six, are doing really well. We had one of the returned missionaries, Max, on a lesson with us and it went great. Usually we are supposed to teach them english, but things always end up where Sasha ends up going off on something about God haha it is so awesome! Sasha loves to just sit there and talk about God and what he think about him, he literally could talk for hours about it! Sometimes he goes off forever about things we completely don't understand, so it was really nice to have someone there who knows what the heck he is talking about! So, that was really nice. They always leave the lessons saying how every lesson just gets more and more interesting and how we just have more and more fun each time. It really is amazing how our relationship with them has changed as we have been teaching them. They are not only investigators, but I consider them really good friends!
Nona, the grandma that we teach, is doing great. She is still reading the Book of Mormon and is in Third Nephi! She is reading it so fast! She is a really nice lady! She always walks in the church, because that is where we have our lessons, and she says, "ok where are my boys?" haha she always refers to us as our boys. We had a really interesting lesson with her this last week where we just sang. haha she says that she loves songs, so we just sang hymns the whole time. She loved it. But, now that she is reading in Third Nephi we have started watching the Testaments. The only problem with her is that she thinks the Book of Mormon is just a history and not scripture, so I am trying to figure out how we can better portray the message of the Book of Mormon being the word of God...
This Saturday is another baptism. Another companionship's investigator is getting baptized. His name is Sasha. He is a 19 year old kid and he is the man! I guess he is like the weight lifting champion of Kazakhstan in his division. He also is a pretty famous DJ around here in Kazakhstan lol his DJ name is DJ Pengvin. He is so tight lol! He has had a lot of problems in the past, like I guess the missionaries had a baptismal date with him once before but it fell through. He is a really spiritual guy, very simple and just wants to do what God wants him to do. He is just scared and has not always felt like he is worthy enough... When I first met him he was really quite, but actually we became really good friends! These past few weeks he has been at the church a lot and I always try and just hang out with him haha we have a good time. So, on his baptism this Saturday he asked me to give the talk before he gets baptized.. haha that is going to be really interesting! Pray for me that I get through the talk in Russian! Jk it will be fine, but of course I am a little nervous..
This Sunday is Easter! The Russian tradition is really weird, I guess that you are supposed to paint red eggs and then go give them to people and say," Jesus is resurrected!" and then when they accept the egg they say, "He truly is resurrected!" haha so it is a funny tradition. We made eggs and are going to give them to all of the members on Sunday, so we will see how is goes haha especially because these aren't Russians they are Kazakh people..
Well the language is pushing along. Haha the only reason I am frustrated is because I can understand really well I just can't talk haha... but I can talk about the church! It is coming along though and I am studies hard... I am starting to just sit down and translate things from Russian to English for my language study so we will see how that helps :) Well I hope everyone has a great week! I will talk to you next week! I love you! Remember who you are!
ELDER WEIHING
We have a pretty good teaching pool of investigators. Sasha and Lela, the family of six, are doing really well. We had one of the returned missionaries, Max, on a lesson with us and it went great. Usually we are supposed to teach them english, but things always end up where Sasha ends up going off on something about God haha it is so awesome! Sasha loves to just sit there and talk about God and what he think about him, he literally could talk for hours about it! Sometimes he goes off forever about things we completely don't understand, so it was really nice to have someone there who knows what the heck he is talking about! So, that was really nice. They always leave the lessons saying how every lesson just gets more and more interesting and how we just have more and more fun each time. It really is amazing how our relationship with them has changed as we have been teaching them. They are not only investigators, but I consider them really good friends!
Nona, the grandma that we teach, is doing great. She is still reading the Book of Mormon and is in Third Nephi! She is reading it so fast! She is a really nice lady! She always walks in the church, because that is where we have our lessons, and she says, "ok where are my boys?" haha she always refers to us as our boys. We had a really interesting lesson with her this last week where we just sang. haha she says that she loves songs, so we just sang hymns the whole time. She loved it. But, now that she is reading in Third Nephi we have started watching the Testaments. The only problem with her is that she thinks the Book of Mormon is just a history and not scripture, so I am trying to figure out how we can better portray the message of the Book of Mormon being the word of God...
This Saturday is another baptism. Another companionship's investigator is getting baptized. His name is Sasha. He is a 19 year old kid and he is the man! I guess he is like the weight lifting champion of Kazakhstan in his division. He also is a pretty famous DJ around here in Kazakhstan lol his DJ name is DJ Pengvin. He is so tight lol! He has had a lot of problems in the past, like I guess the missionaries had a baptismal date with him once before but it fell through. He is a really spiritual guy, very simple and just wants to do what God wants him to do. He is just scared and has not always felt like he is worthy enough... When I first met him he was really quite, but actually we became really good friends! These past few weeks he has been at the church a lot and I always try and just hang out with him haha we have a good time. So, on his baptism this Saturday he asked me to give the talk before he gets baptized.. haha that is going to be really interesting! Pray for me that I get through the talk in Russian! Jk it will be fine, but of course I am a little nervous..
This Sunday is Easter! The Russian tradition is really weird, I guess that you are supposed to paint red eggs and then go give them to people and say," Jesus is resurrected!" and then when they accept the egg they say, "He truly is resurrected!" haha so it is a funny tradition. We made eggs and are going to give them to all of the members on Sunday, so we will see how is goes haha especially because these aren't Russians they are Kazakh people..
Well the language is pushing along. Haha the only reason I am frustrated is because I can understand really well I just can't talk haha... but I can talk about the church! It is coming along though and I am studies hard... I am starting to just sit down and translate things from Russian to English for my language study so we will see how that helps :) Well I hope everyone has a great week! I will talk to you next week! I love you! Remember who you are!
ELDER WEIHING
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Subject: Hello Family :)
Every letter will probably start out the same but that is because it is true.. another amazing week on the mission! :)
Well this is my new e mail address Kennethwine@myldsmail.net
Anyways things have been great! The week started off great because in the local branch here we had to missionaries come home! that brought a lot of fire to the ward and to all of the missionaries. One of the missionaries who came home is amazing! His name is Max and right when he got home he called us and asked how he could help us... haha so we have been having him present in our lessons to have member support and he has really been helping because he has such an amazing ability to teach! His own conversion story along with his families is really interesting as well... Max and his family were all really strong Muslims and they spoke very little russian actually. They mostly speak Kazak. But, when they started meeting with the missionaries they had a different feeling about our church and they learned russian just so that they could read the BOM because it is now written in Kazak yet. So, he learned Russian to do that and then got baptized, went on a mission, and now knows perfect english too. He has only been a member for six years and is amazing! The funniest part is that he still considers himself Muslim... he says he is Muslims by culture lol he just believes in a little bit more... so I think that is really cool! He is an amazing person!
We had him on one particular lesson this week which was really amazing! We teach this 17 year old kid named Danyar and his is a really cool kid. We play sports with him and have a lot of fun teaching him english. We have started teaching him the gospel and he hasn't turned us away or anything so now we always teach him as much gospel as we have time for. But we invited Max on the lesson to show him that it wasn't just us and that there were young people who are really cool in our branch and church as well. Max totally opened him up and you could just see the excitement in Danyars eyes! It was so crazy! Max helped us out so much and now I am really excited to see how much progress he does!
Our family that we are teaching is doing really good too! I don't know if you could say that we had a ton of success with them this week but we did get the husband to say that if he received an answer in his question to God that this church has the fullness of the truth then he would of course act on that answer. Lol so that is always a good thing! They are an amazing family and are so spiritual!
Well this week has been yet another amazing week on the mission! Lol hopefully sometime I will have time to send some pictures and stuff lol I love you all! thank you for the love and support and I hope that you all have an amazing week!! Remember who you are!
ELDER WEIHING
Every letter will probably start out the same but that is because it is true.. another amazing week on the mission! :)
Well this is my new e mail address Kennethwine@myldsmail.net
Anyways things have been great! The week started off great because in the local branch here we had to missionaries come home! that brought a lot of fire to the ward and to all of the missionaries. One of the missionaries who came home is amazing! His name is Max and right when he got home he called us and asked how he could help us... haha so we have been having him present in our lessons to have member support and he has really been helping because he has such an amazing ability to teach! His own conversion story along with his families is really interesting as well... Max and his family were all really strong Muslims and they spoke very little russian actually. They mostly speak Kazak. But, when they started meeting with the missionaries they had a different feeling about our church and they learned russian just so that they could read the BOM because it is now written in Kazak yet. So, he learned Russian to do that and then got baptized, went on a mission, and now knows perfect english too. He has only been a member for six years and is amazing! The funniest part is that he still considers himself Muslim... he says he is Muslims by culture lol he just believes in a little bit more... so I think that is really cool! He is an amazing person!
We had him on one particular lesson this week which was really amazing! We teach this 17 year old kid named Danyar and his is a really cool kid. We play sports with him and have a lot of fun teaching him english. We have started teaching him the gospel and he hasn't turned us away or anything so now we always teach him as much gospel as we have time for. But we invited Max on the lesson to show him that it wasn't just us and that there were young people who are really cool in our branch and church as well. Max totally opened him up and you could just see the excitement in Danyars eyes! It was so crazy! Max helped us out so much and now I am really excited to see how much progress he does!
Our family that we are teaching is doing really good too! I don't know if you could say that we had a ton of success with them this week but we did get the husband to say that if he received an answer in his question to God that this church has the fullness of the truth then he would of course act on that answer. Lol so that is always a good thing! They are an amazing family and are so spiritual!
Well this week has been yet another amazing week on the mission! Lol hopefully sometime I will have time to send some pictures and stuff lol I love you all! thank you for the love and support and I hope that you all have an amazing week!! Remember who you are!
ELDER WEIHING
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