Leaving

28 July 2005
"It is sure an interesting day. Tonight we have an interesting experience that is going. We are letting an Elder Krivov stay with us and he is leaving tomorrow to go to Moscow and all. Well he got set apart tonight and should be sleeping here. Well he decided to take off with his friends - we tried to talk him out of it, but it didn't work. We should have called President but we didn't. Well, now I am sick to the stomach. I guess that is part of life. Its our fault and we should not have let him go. It's too late now though. Well anyhow - enough about that.

Today we had a Конференция Зоны and that went well. We had a lot of good council that we got from President about how to strengthen our branch. Well, had the opportunity to share an experience about how the Atonement has helped in the work. That went well. I also ate way too much pizza and other stuff there. Well, I didn't feel great but oh well - no wonder I am getting fat! Well also we talked about how in the Ensign President Hinckley promises those how will read the entire BofM from Aug 1 until the end of the year will receive great blessings. Well, we are going to institute this in our mission. We are going to start Aug 1 and we are expecting great blessings.

After conference, we went to office and we picked up Брат Блинков. He took us to some members house and we had an interesting discussion with them. The lady told us that she goes to the Провославная Церковь and doesn't really have much desire to come back to church. Well, we talked about the promise above, but she wasn't too interested in it. Well we then went to see Эдуард and Алфия and they are doing well. Блинков talked a lot and it was very long. We sat a lot, and basically Блинков just tried to convince them of the truth. Well, it didn't work out too well, but I have more faith in them now that something will work out and that we will have success. It is awesome to work with people and to help them. I love this work. Well, we then went and got Elder Krivov and came home. I hope that all will be alright."