Hey Family :)
I just read sami's email about her wedding so i am now totally distracted and don't even remember what i was going to write! It sounds like it was incredible! and I am sad......but not too sad. don't worry! and i am happy to know that you found time to watch monsters inc on your wedding day! haha random! you are so great! But i am also worried that my Avery Baby (Huish) won't remember me when i get home! I love that she called you a princess! And mom, i need you to find out who she is engaged to- Alyssa that is! I need to know his name! that is so crazy! Is it Preston Rutter? haha I will just die if it is! haha! anyways- i took too much time reading your emails so i have to be really fast now! first here is a question- is chelsea dead? will you call her and make she is still alive and tell her i love her?
Speaking of conference i am really embarrassed that that got on there! haha i was so nervous and shaking and sounded ultra silly! haha but i am glad that you got to see my face! and hear my voice! haha funny funny! we get to see conference next week and it will all be in Russian haha so that will be interesting! but i am excited to listen to it! its the best!
thank you for all of the emails- you are all the best! and I will look forward to your package. the ZLs are in NOvo right now so maybe i will get it but i will try to not get my hopes up!
Now as for me and my new companion- we are getting along great! She is awesome! and she is a twin so we are being each others "twins" kinda although i am a triplet, but it works! My companion is pretty quiet and she doesn't like to talk on the phone so she delegated that responsibilty to me haha! Which means that alot of the times i have no idea what is going on! i thought russian was hard to understand but it is even harder over the phone! I also need to work on her confidence! YOu see i just talk and pretend i know how to speak russian and just laugh because more than half of it is wrong and she is embarrassed to be wrong or something i guess but i mean might as well just go for it right? haha the russians think im crazy i think cause i laugh so much but they like it.
Here is our best story of the week! So we have an investigator named Galina. SHe is really nice and legit! she is how i want to be when i grow up. she has short spiky hair and it really spunky. So we were supposed to meet her at her work so she gave us directions over text message and we gave them to the elders to translate for us. we got to where we thoguth we were supposed to be and called her. but we weren't at the right place and she was trying to explain to us and she was getting frustrated and talking loudly and if i didn't know how russians talked i would have thought she was yelling at us but really that is just how they are. Anyways for like 20 minutes we talked gibberish to each other until she finally realized where we were and she found us! but she wasn't mad she just felt bad for us and was hugging and kissing us and told us that next time we should just give the phone to a russian and they will help us! haha! anyways this is was the most interesting place i have taught a lesson, it was in a rinok which is an open air market. she sells wood pieces like doors and molding etc so it smelled really good, but we were outside just sitting on little stools. anyways she is super knowledgable and she practically taught us the third lesson! she reads the BOM and highlights and reads all sorts of church books and she knows all of the answers! and so i said now Galina you know what i am goint to say next? and she just sat there and said "nada krestitsa" i need to be baptized. and i said yes haha and she went off for about 10 minutes about how she won't have time in the summer cause she will have to work and all sorts of excuses and after all that this is how the conversation went :
me- as missionaries we make goals, they help us to reach what we want to achieve and we want to make a goal with you to be baptized on may 7th
G- whats specail about that day? (thRussians have this thing about being baptized on specail days)
Me- it is a very very speical day
G- why?
ME- it will be the most important day in your life because you will be baptized on that day
and then there was this long long pause and she said
G- "moshna" which means - ok its possible. I can!!!
haha! i freaked out and siad the russian excited word that sounds like this "WHOOORAAAAAHHH"!!!!! and i even stood up and did it out into the Rinok! into the street thing! haha it was funny but she smiled and thought it was funny! now we just have to work on the word of wisom!
Oh man! i never have enough time! This week i was singing the song "I feel my Saviors love" and i was thinking about the words and it says "He knows i will follow HIm, give all my life to HIm" and i was thinking to myself, how does He know that? Does my Savior know that i will do that for HIm? The only way that He can know that is if we do it! we need to give him all that we have and follow HIm And then He WILL know that about us! .....just one of my thoughts
for english club i gave the spiritual thought and i read the words I am a child of God for them and explained our beliefs from those and then the missionaries sang it to them. ANd i was thinking that the primary songs really are our beliefs! how wonderful that the gospel is so simple children can understand it! and yet so complex and complete that it can fill all those that partake of it. There is always more to learn!
sorry gotta go! i love you!
Sister Trottier
