19 September 2005
"Today just flew by. I don't even feel like I got anything done. I tried, but it just flew by. We got to the office and we started the day. I typed in all the statistics and that went really well. I felt like it was a bad week and that there wasn't a lot that got done, but then I saw there was a good average all over so that is good. Well, we then had our собрание округа this morning that went really well although it went a long time. We had a good time joking around, and we really did have a cool time with everyone. Our district was awesome and it will be sad w/o Бэннэт. He is way fun. Well, we finished and I ran back to work. I had to work on some mission papers and getting things ready for Saturday. I got some books ready for new missionaries and while doing all this we had some lunch - пелмены и рис. Well, I basically worked but didn't feel like I got a lot done. We then ran off to FHE and there things went decent. We talked a lot about genealogical work - something that I wish I had worked on more before my mission but I didn't. The lesson was a little long but the APs did a pretty good job. We then played do you love your neighbor and that went really well. We are now home and Elder Jonsson is with us now. He will be my new companion, and things will be a lot better next week but we are going to bring him with a baptism of fire and water with all that we got going this week. What insanity!"
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Marriage Lesson
18 September 2005
"It was bound to be a bad day...and then it turned out to be decent. Well, we had at least one good meeting that is. This morning we got up and studied quick like after which we headed over to the church. I rotted my teeth with a chocolate рулеть and so my Mom would be happy to know that I eat such things for breakfast. The meeting went alright today, but it could have gone a lot better. We had a really good lesson that Олеса taught. She did awesome. She talked about preparing for Zion and being physically and spiritually prepared - something that the Russian people have a lot of work to do. Священство was like usual with a fairly boring lesson that he just read from the book. Well, we chatted for a bit then we came home and went to the office to eat. We had a decent meal before we just sat there in the office. I wrote President and did some planning for next cycle. Well, we finally left and went to see Степан. He is a really good guy and today we were talking about marriage - a really missionary topic - and he said that you got to be careful because maybe your wife will say "Ты мне не нравишься в постели." Bennett and I had a good laugh as he is about 70 and really funny. Well, we had a good lesson with him, and enjoyed it. I was glad to be working and now we are home and getting ready. I have a bunch to do, so I am going to run."
"It was bound to be a bad day...and then it turned out to be decent. Well, we had at least one good meeting that is. This morning we got up and studied quick like after which we headed over to the church. I rotted my teeth with a chocolate рулеть and so my Mom would be happy to know that I eat such things for breakfast. The meeting went alright today, but it could have gone a lot better. We had a really good lesson that Олеса taught. She did awesome. She talked about preparing for Zion and being physically and spiritually prepared - something that the Russian people have a lot of work to do. Священство was like usual with a fairly boring lesson that he just read from the book. Well, we chatted for a bit then we came home and went to the office to eat. We had a decent meal before we just sat there in the office. I wrote President and did some planning for next cycle. Well, we finally left and went to see Степан. He is a really good guy and today we were talking about marriage - a really missionary topic - and he said that you got to be careful because maybe your wife will say "Ты мне не нравишься в постели." Bennett and I had a good laugh as he is about 70 and really funny. Well, we had a good lesson with him, and enjoyed it. I was glad to be working and now we are home and getting ready. I have a bunch to do, so I am going to run."
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Надежда Человечества
17 September 2005
"What a sweet day. I am dead tired, but we did a ton. We left bright and early this morning to write home, and that went well. The family is doing well, and so is my brother. He is way awesome. He has a great attitude, and i love it. Well, the APs were with us, and we took off to play with them. We went to Самарская Площадь and played with the frisbees for a bit and that was pretty fun. We quick like then went to the APs and started to watch Надежда Человечества. Роман came and we went with him to help him to move some things. We went back to the APs and I took the football and we went back to play some football. Wow - that was so sweet. It has been so long since I have played football. It was awesome and we threw the football around a bunch and ran plays, and we were dead tired. We went back to the APs, started to eat and finished watching the movie - there was nothing all that great about it, but I slept because I was super tired. I woke up and we came back here to our house where I started my laundry, took a shower, and then laid down for a bit. We then went to the office because the sisters from Bezimanski had left us something there. We stopped by quick and then ran to the church building where Elder Bennett had an interview with Лилия and I sat in the hallway and sang the new hymns. Well, here we are at home and we are eating popcorn for fun. We are working, and having a good time. I love it!"
"What a sweet day. I am dead tired, but we did a ton. We left bright and early this morning to write home, and that went well. The family is doing well, and so is my brother. He is way awesome. He has a great attitude, and i love it. Well, the APs were with us, and we took off to play with them. We went to Самарская Площадь and played with the frisbees for a bit and that was pretty fun. We quick like then went to the APs and started to watch Надежда Человечества. Роман came and we went with him to help him to move some things. We went back to the APs and I took the football and we went back to play some football. Wow - that was so sweet. It has been so long since I have played football. It was awesome and we threw the football around a bunch and ran plays, and we were dead tired. We went back to the APs, started to eat and finished watching the movie - there was nothing all that great about it, but I slept because I was super tired. I woke up and we came back here to our house where I started my laundry, took a shower, and then laid down for a bit. We then went to the office because the sisters from Bezimanski had left us something there. We stopped by quick and then ran to the church building where Elder Bennett had an interview with Лилия and I sat in the hallway and sang the new hymns. Well, here we are at home and we are eating popcorn for fun. We are working, and having a good time. I love it!"
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Conference
16 September 2005
"Things went well today and I feel myself a lot better. My side still huts a bit, but it is a lot better than yesterday. At least I can walk and breathe without a lot of pain. I think the main thing is that I have started to drink a lot more. This morning we took off to the office to get some things for the elders and to take to the zone conference. We were there for a bit trying to get things ready and printed off for the conference. Conference today was really good and we talked a lot about faith. President talked about if we will talk with 10 people every day then baptisms will double. We need to have faith. I thought about my faith and I decided that I needed to work on this a lot. I have a great love and I love people so much, but my faith is weak to help them like I need to. I want to hug and help people so much! I love them with all my heart - members, missionaries, and Russian people. These people are so awesome. I need to increase my faith and teach people to show their faith even more. So, that is what I got from conference today, and I need to work on that. We ate McDonald's there and that was good as always. We planned a little with the Assistants what we are going to do tomorrow. We got out of there and we decided to come home as we had to get some things done and I fell asleep for a bit. When I woke up, we went to see вячеслав and we talked about how we can show our faith and about how we can use it as a power in our lives. It went well, and we said our parting words with him - I meant that Elder Bennett said goodbye. We then came home and we were the only ones that were on the трамвай and so we took some pictures and enjoyed that. We have been taking care of things a lot and I have talked way too much on the phone today. Tomorrow is already p-day again so that means that we will be writing home. I love conference, and it always gives me new energy. I love the spirit! It is way awesome."
"Things went well today and I feel myself a lot better. My side still huts a bit, but it is a lot better than yesterday. At least I can walk and breathe without a lot of pain. I think the main thing is that I have started to drink a lot more. This morning we took off to the office to get some things for the elders and to take to the zone conference. We were there for a bit trying to get things ready and printed off for the conference. Conference today was really good and we talked a lot about faith. President talked about if we will talk with 10 people every day then baptisms will double. We need to have faith. I thought about my faith and I decided that I needed to work on this a lot. I have a great love and I love people so much, but my faith is weak to help them like I need to. I want to hug and help people so much! I love them with all my heart - members, missionaries, and Russian people. These people are so awesome. I need to increase my faith and teach people to show their faith even more. So, that is what I got from conference today, and I need to work on that. We ate McDonald's there and that was good as always. We planned a little with the Assistants what we are going to do tomorrow. We got out of there and we decided to come home as we had to get some things done and I fell asleep for a bit. When I woke up, we went to see вячеслав and we talked about how we can show our faith and about how we can use it as a power in our lives. It went well, and we said our parting words with him - I meant that Elder Bennett said goodbye. We then came home and we were the only ones that were on the трамвай and so we took some pictures and enjoyed that. We have been taking care of things a lot and I have talked way too much on the phone today. Tomorrow is already p-day again so that means that we will be writing home. I love conference, and it always gives me new energy. I love the spirit! It is way awesome."
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
More Pain
15 September 2005
"I am getting this started early tonight as I will be here for a bit and I don’t feel all that great. I want to go lie down and take a break, but right now there is nowhere to lay down. I have not felt good all day and I hope that it will go away for tomorrow as we have a zone conference and so that means that we will be busy there and it will be another long day. I hate being sick because you don’t feel like doing anything and you just want to lie down and sleep. Well, it is really bad, and I hate this feeling. I don’t know what to do about it, and I think I will call the doctor tomorrow if I don’t feel better soon. I still have this shooting pain in my side not far from my heart that is not helping and I don’t know what it is from. This is already the third day of that, and so that is no fun. I feel like dying. I hate this feeling. I guess that is part of life, and maybe getting away from here will help. I don’t know, but I do know that we still have a long evening tonight as we are going to have to take some poster things to the Вокзал for Sister Стальнова. It is going to be crazy. And I hope that all will be okay with that, but we will see.
So this morning was an interesting as we had to get here early and most of the day we have been pretty busy until just now. We came in here and I got a bunch going, and I am going to have a crazy week next week and so I hope that things are going to be better and that I feel a lot better. I had to do some lists and then I had to get things ready for Roman to get out of here, and to have things run smoothly. Well I can’t think right now as I am really hurting in pain in my side. It sure doesn’t feel too good and I wish it would go away. We thought that today we were going to go to do some service but it turned out that we couldn’t because our sisters needed some help as they couldn’t leave until someone was going to come and fix something at their house. Well, that meant that we had to go on to a meeting for them to Людмила who we helped on Tuesday do some service. Well, we helped her a bit, ate some watermelon and chatted with her about life. It was nice to be able to get out of the office and be at someone’s house to help them. It was a lot of fun. We decided that we had better stop by to McDonalds as we wanted to have something to eat and we didn’t have a lot of time. We stopped by and got some food real quick.
Well, we got back here to the office and the fun began. The APs were working on setting up the transfers that will be next week. They were racking their brains over who is going to go where and when and things like that. They were trying to set up the plan but it wasn’t going all that well as we have 18 new missionaries that will be coming in next week. Well, we had to get that all figured out and to put things on top of that we have another big trip that will be going on next week for new migration cards. Basically it was insane, and it will be absolutely crazy. So we got that figured out after about 2 or 3 hours and our heads hurt. We now have a good plan set up and we also have a good list of things that people can do. Well, we are going to have fun tonight. I did some other things in order to get ready for this and so that was a blast. Elder Bennett had to some translating and that meant that I got to sit here and wait for him. We will be going to the train station here in a bit and then we will be going home. Elder Nance just told me that the reason that I am in so much pain is because I don’t have enough water in me so I am trying to drink a lot. It hurts to laugh and sometime to breathe – it really hurts to take a deep breath. As for now, I guess that is all, and tomorrow should be an interesting day again. Off I go…"
"I am getting this started early tonight as I will be here for a bit and I don’t feel all that great. I want to go lie down and take a break, but right now there is nowhere to lay down. I have not felt good all day and I hope that it will go away for tomorrow as we have a zone conference and so that means that we will be busy there and it will be another long day. I hate being sick because you don’t feel like doing anything and you just want to lie down and sleep. Well, it is really bad, and I hate this feeling. I don’t know what to do about it, and I think I will call the doctor tomorrow if I don’t feel better soon. I still have this shooting pain in my side not far from my heart that is not helping and I don’t know what it is from. This is already the third day of that, and so that is no fun. I feel like dying. I hate this feeling. I guess that is part of life, and maybe getting away from here will help. I don’t know, but I do know that we still have a long evening tonight as we are going to have to take some poster things to the Вокзал for Sister Стальнова. It is going to be crazy. And I hope that all will be okay with that, but we will see.
So this morning was an interesting as we had to get here early and most of the day we have been pretty busy until just now. We came in here and I got a bunch going, and I am going to have a crazy week next week and so I hope that things are going to be better and that I feel a lot better. I had to do some lists and then I had to get things ready for Roman to get out of here, and to have things run smoothly. Well I can’t think right now as I am really hurting in pain in my side. It sure doesn’t feel too good and I wish it would go away. We thought that today we were going to go to do some service but it turned out that we couldn’t because our sisters needed some help as they couldn’t leave until someone was going to come and fix something at their house. Well, that meant that we had to go on to a meeting for them to Людмила who we helped on Tuesday do some service. Well, we helped her a bit, ate some watermelon and chatted with her about life. It was nice to be able to get out of the office and be at someone’s house to help them. It was a lot of fun. We decided that we had better stop by to McDonalds as we wanted to have something to eat and we didn’t have a lot of time. We stopped by and got some food real quick.
Well, we got back here to the office and the fun began. The APs were working on setting up the transfers that will be next week. They were racking their brains over who is going to go where and when and things like that. They were trying to set up the plan but it wasn’t going all that well as we have 18 new missionaries that will be coming in next week. Well, we had to get that all figured out and to put things on top of that we have another big trip that will be going on next week for new migration cards. Basically it was insane, and it will be absolutely crazy. So we got that figured out after about 2 or 3 hours and our heads hurt. We now have a good plan set up and we also have a good list of things that people can do. Well, we are going to have fun tonight. I did some other things in order to get ready for this and so that was a blast. Elder Bennett had to some translating and that meant that I got to sit here and wait for him. We will be going to the train station here in a bit and then we will be going home. Elder Nance just told me that the reason that I am in so much pain is because I don’t have enough water in me so I am trying to drink a lot. It hurts to laugh and sometime to breathe – it really hurts to take a deep breath. As for now, I guess that is all, and tomorrow should be an interesting day again. Off I go…"
Monday, September 14, 2009
Dying
14 September 2005
"I am dying. That is how I feel at least. I have this pain in my side that is right by my heart. It hurts really bad to lie down at all and to be standing for a long time. In fact this morning I had to sit at the end of my bed in order to study at all. Tomorrow I will absolutely call the doctor if the pain is still there. As for now, I will live with it and hope that it goes away, or at least that I will be able to sleep.
So this morning, we got all ready for our day and we studied together. We made a plan for our lesson with Tom and basically it was way cool to be able to study. The bad news was that we had no lesson with Tom as something came up. That is sure a bummer because he is a great guy. We headed to the office where we had a few things to do, but not a ton. I got things ready for the elders that will be coming in, and that will be leaving. After a few other things, we went to get some keys made, but couldn't find a place for all of them. We made a few on the рынок and then went back to the office after some scorching heat. We decided that we had better eat and so we did that by making chili dogs that turned out really tasty. Elder Lunt really enjoyed it as he was there. We then ran off to the church where we were suppose to have a meeting with President Колцов, but he didn't come and so we were just there at institute and that was interesting. It sure isn't like my class that I had at home and there was one young man there that just wanted to argue. We came home and now I am writing here."
"I am dying. That is how I feel at least. I have this pain in my side that is right by my heart. It hurts really bad to lie down at all and to be standing for a long time. In fact this morning I had to sit at the end of my bed in order to study at all. Tomorrow I will absolutely call the doctor if the pain is still there. As for now, I will live with it and hope that it goes away, or at least that I will be able to sleep.
So this morning, we got all ready for our day and we studied together. We made a plan for our lesson with Tom and basically it was way cool to be able to study. The bad news was that we had no lesson with Tom as something came up. That is sure a bummer because he is a great guy. We headed to the office where we had a few things to do, but not a ton. I got things ready for the elders that will be coming in, and that will be leaving. After a few other things, we went to get some keys made, but couldn't find a place for all of them. We made a few on the рынок and then went back to the office after some scorching heat. We decided that we had better eat and so we did that by making chili dogs that turned out really tasty. Elder Lunt really enjoyed it as he was there. We then ran off to the church where we were suppose to have a meeting with President Колцов, but he didn't come and so we were just there at institute and that was interesting. It sure isn't like my class that I had at home and there was one young man there that just wanted to argue. We came home and now I am writing here."
Sunday, September 13, 2009
High and Girls
13 September 2005
"I had the feeling like I was high today. I know what those people feel like now and how they don’t have much feeling in their bodies. It was pretty crazy. I felt really really weird, and I don’t think that I will be able to explain it in words, but I will explain what happened. We had gone to help a sister that the sisters are teaching and she needed us to do some repairs on her home. That meant that we got pretty dirty. We started off by caulking the windows at first but without caulk guns but with some spatulas. That was interesting and of course Bennett did a lot better at it then I did, but that didn’t mean much. Elder Bennett finished my window up for me, and then the sisters had to leave because they had a meeting. Well, I called Elder Ehlert and had him to help me to get things ready, and to get the things done that I wanted done but couldn’t and we stayed to do some painting. Well, I was in the kitchen where they had already started and my head started to go crazy. It was hard to breathe, and there were so many fumes there. It was sure insane but there was another girl from the branch there, Валя, and she was sitting there painting without any problems at all. She just kept painting and kept things going just fine. Well, I didn’t want her to have to be there for a way long time and so that meant that I helped her do a bunch of painting even with the bad smell. I helped her for awhile and then I had to leave a couple of times. When we finally left I was going in circles and I couldn’t really walk all that great, and I definitely couldn’t feel things well at all. I thought that if this is how those drunken guys feel then they must be going crazy. I couldn’t handle it and I didn’t feel good at all. I was hurting really bad, and yeah. Now I am over it, but at the time it hurt a bit.
This morning I studied a bit but then we had to get here to the office to help the APs to get some stuff into the car for Roman. Well, we sent them off and then I just studied some. There is a crazy verse in Alma 28: 11-14 about dead people and the Lord and it goes really way too well with what is happening in New Orleans. We have some crazy things that are going on right now, and it is sure insane. Well, it was interesting to read that and then we took off to get to the service.
After service we came here and we got settled down from the crazy high that we were on. We then decided that we had better eat as we had a ton to do and we hadn’t eaten all day. I did a little work here in the office, but I didn’t have a lot of time before we had to leave to go to English and teach there. Well, we got there and there was no there and the sisters had the keys so we waited for a bit. A new student came this week that had been there once before, Ольга, and we hope that the sisters will be teaching her. The sisters came and we got in the building and then we were able to start our lesson. We had to teach Лиза и Алиса and they are out of control. They are 8 and 9 years old so that means that they are not really great listeners but they have a lot of fun and tons of energy. They were all over me and my companion and it was weird. They are both young but still it is strange where there are girls touching you. We tried to keep them away but Алиса sat on my lap at one point and put her arms around me and told me that I was her fiancé. That was sure strange and it won’t be something that I am looking forward to again. Well, anyhow we got through the lesson and then we got on to the spiritual thought and that went really well. We had everyone there and then we headed off to come back here to the office. We had to come back so that I could call some of the District Presidents and Branch Presidents to have a chat with them. Right now things are well, and I am hoping that all will go well with Tom tomorrow. We have a good lesson planned for him!"
"I had the feeling like I was high today. I know what those people feel like now and how they don’t have much feeling in their bodies. It was pretty crazy. I felt really really weird, and I don’t think that I will be able to explain it in words, but I will explain what happened. We had gone to help a sister that the sisters are teaching and she needed us to do some repairs on her home. That meant that we got pretty dirty. We started off by caulking the windows at first but without caulk guns but with some spatulas. That was interesting and of course Bennett did a lot better at it then I did, but that didn’t mean much. Elder Bennett finished my window up for me, and then the sisters had to leave because they had a meeting. Well, I called Elder Ehlert and had him to help me to get things ready, and to get the things done that I wanted done but couldn’t and we stayed to do some painting. Well, I was in the kitchen where they had already started and my head started to go crazy. It was hard to breathe, and there were so many fumes there. It was sure insane but there was another girl from the branch there, Валя, and she was sitting there painting without any problems at all. She just kept painting and kept things going just fine. Well, I didn’t want her to have to be there for a way long time and so that meant that I helped her do a bunch of painting even with the bad smell. I helped her for awhile and then I had to leave a couple of times. When we finally left I was going in circles and I couldn’t really walk all that great, and I definitely couldn’t feel things well at all. I thought that if this is how those drunken guys feel then they must be going crazy. I couldn’t handle it and I didn’t feel good at all. I was hurting really bad, and yeah. Now I am over it, but at the time it hurt a bit.
This morning I studied a bit but then we had to get here to the office to help the APs to get some stuff into the car for Roman. Well, we sent them off and then I just studied some. There is a crazy verse in Alma 28: 11-14 about dead people and the Lord and it goes really way too well with what is happening in New Orleans. We have some crazy things that are going on right now, and it is sure insane. Well, it was interesting to read that and then we took off to get to the service.
After service we came here and we got settled down from the crazy high that we were on. We then decided that we had better eat as we had a ton to do and we hadn’t eaten all day. I did a little work here in the office, but I didn’t have a lot of time before we had to leave to go to English and teach there. Well, we got there and there was no there and the sisters had the keys so we waited for a bit. A new student came this week that had been there once before, Ольга, and we hope that the sisters will be teaching her. The sisters came and we got in the building and then we were able to start our lesson. We had to teach Лиза и Алиса and they are out of control. They are 8 and 9 years old so that means that they are not really great listeners but they have a lot of fun and tons of energy. They were all over me and my companion and it was weird. They are both young but still it is strange where there are girls touching you. We tried to keep them away but Алиса sat on my lap at one point and put her arms around me and told me that I was her fiancé. That was sure strange and it won’t be something that I am looking forward to again. Well, anyhow we got through the lesson and then we got on to the spiritual thought and that went really well. We had everyone there and then we headed off to come back here to the office. We had to come back so that I could call some of the District Presidents and Branch Presidents to have a chat with them. Right now things are well, and I am hoping that all will go well with Tom tomorrow. We have a good lesson planned for him!"
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