President Peiper

27 August 2005
It was a fairly good day today as we have been chilling and relaxing. I won’t do too much like I wrote yesterday as that was just an experiment to see how it would look there. Elder Pritchett wrote like that but I don’t write near as well as he does so that is too bad. Anyhow this morning we got up and cleaned the apartment up a bit – it was in great need as we haven’t for about 3 weeks. We got it all picked up and we did our laundry and I did my reading and stuff that I always do, and then we went to the office – here I would guess that means. We wrote home as always and I got to talk with President Piper a little bit as he was here for an interview for a missionary. Well we talked with him a bit and that was cool and I wrote home and the family seems to be doing well. My brother sent me some stuff he said so I am waiting for that. Well anyhow we tried not to waste too much time here. We ran home and changed the laundry out and then we went to the store. I threw down a lot of money, but I will be eating well for the next couple of days, and besides I have the money, so why the heck not use it. Well the main thing that I got ripped off on was the fruits as I thought they would be really cheap but it turned out different. Well we came home and we made lunch. I got some energy and made some really good salsa and it will be even better tomorrow. We ate it with rice and with пельмени. We then took a nice long nap – for about two hours before we got up and had to run to the church where we had a собрание зоны. It was pretty good and we talked a lot about how we need to be one in our companionships and how we need to do the work more as the Lord wants. We talked a lot about planning and a lot about studying together and all. Well anyways, my comp and I don’t do this because we never know really and we don’t plan well even though I want to plan more and all. It is just hard and we need to do better on it. We do study together when we have time though so that is a good thing. Well after the meeting, we ate some stuff and I ate way too much, but it was all good and I enjoyed it. We came back here to the office to open the doors for a couple of elders and then we have to work on a disc to give to Elder Piper. Well he will get it we hope but we don’t know for sure. Things will go well tomorrow I think as we have some meetings with Blinkov. I hope that things will go better, and we shall see for sure. As for now I have to finish this disc for President Piper.

Dead Missionaries

25 May 2005
"We have survived the first day in the office. I don't know how I am going to live. I hope that it gets better. I think it will, but today I did very little. We got oriented there in the office a bit before heading to lunch and a few other things. Well, we did got with the Ehlerts tonight to a lesson, and I translated a little bit for Sister Ehlert. Basically, we are going to die here. Well, not really, but it will be better to work tomorrow. Elder Anderson and Pritchett are both dead. They are funny guys, but it is crazy to see such missionaries. Well, for now I guess I will go, but things are different here."