Priesthood Strength

28 August 2005
"Talk about a killer day and very unsuccessful also. We tried to work but nothing happened for us. This morning we went to church at about 9:40 and as we came up, everyone was standing outside. President Колцов is gone to Italy and that means that there was no one to open the doors - imagine the bishop is gone one Sunday so only missionaries can open the door. Well - it gets better here - they supported Лиза to be a member but just said "Те, кто поддерживают ее покажите правой рукой." Let's just support her -not as a member - well it makes no sense I know. There was then a baby blessing that went great - lol. So the Elder's quorum President - Sergei - got up to bless his baby, and he started like it was a blessing of health - not addressing Heavenly Father and saying "laying our hand on your head." Well, they discussed it and he started again, saying the exact same thing. Well Elder Bennett gave them the blessing card and he put it on the baby and just read. He read it straight and didn't give a blessing at all (the last words are "In the name...Amen.") Well it was sad - the elder quorum president didn't even know how to bless his baby! We got everyone out of the church after setting up some meetings. We came home and made ourselves some chili and relaxed a bit. We then met up with Брат Бликов and went to several addresses. Of course no one was home and we didn't know where to go. There was another huge part on the square and so we figured it would better to come back home and plan then to talk with a bunch of drunks. We set some goals, and worked on getting thins ready for this week. I am going to make some cinnamon rolls right now and hopefully they will turn out good. Who knows - I guess we will find out. Off to work I go..."