April 27th Happy Easter!

It was a good Easter week!  The Russians LOVE holidays!   I felt like I had to
keep up our Easter traditions so last P-day we went to the Senior Couples
apartment to dye Easter eggs and I made everyone egg salad sandwiches! It was
really good! :)  It felt just like home...except not... On sunday everyone was
so happy, all of the members and people were happy to talk to us!  They all say
"Jesus Christ was resurrected" to you and then you have to respond "yes its
true, he was resurrected"  but it sounds better in Russian...just sayin.  It was
so happy and great!  All week our spiritual thoughts have been on Easter, and my
new favorite church picture is in the back of the Ensign. It’s of the Tomb, but
it is not like other pictures of the tomb.  Normally they are looking into the
tomb, but this one is looking out!  I LOVE it! It’s incredible, it is our hope
to live again, it is our hope to have new life through Christ.  Just look at the
picture and you will know what I am talking about...I think.


So the remodeling of our bathroom has been a pain this week. Instead of having a
bunch of meetings we have to stay home while the workers destroy our bathroom.
But I took this opportunity to talk to them about their beliefs and families and
about ours :)  They think we are just a little crazy, but i think they like us.
We have also gotten to know our landlady pretty well- she speaks english kinda
and It’s fun to talk to her in runglish. She loves us and is interested in a not
investigator type way of what we believe...but maybe later :)

Yesterday was pretty crazy because our investigator freaked us out when she
started talking about reincarnation!  This is Galina who is getting baptized
next week. But once we explained what we believe, she was a little disappointed
but very very humble and said she would believe this too. She is so amazing and
so excited and ready to be baptized! she said, "can i invite my friends and
family when i get baptized? "  um....YES!  haha  whenever we go to her house she
makes us really good food which is good but they always make us eat EVERYTHING!
if i come home really big, you will know why.....its all the women and
grandmas.... 


Yesterday we were contacted by the Jehovah witnesses :)  it was pretty funny,
actually they were really nice and just said they wanted to say hello and talk
to people who were also teaching of Christ.  They were really nice and wished us
luck with our work. 

Anyway, today isn't a very long email because i had to figure out mothers day
stuff and my brain isn't working today very well :) 

Love you!

Sister Trottier