Hey family!
So i talked to you just a few hours ago, but my companion needed to
send an email to her family so I'm hear :) writing you again :)
Funny that when we talk over skype and stuff we really don't have much
to say huh? i think its because we already know whats going on with
each other and then we just stare at each other haha we strange kinda.
haha but that's ok. sorry i always freeze and don't know what to say.
But i was just floating on a cloud the whole time we went shopping and
stuff. Don't worry i will work really really super hard these last two
weeks cause i know its how i finish is what i will remember, but i am
also so excited to give you all big huge hugs and not have to wait 6
months to talk to you. and you know what? i forgot for the second time
on my mission to say HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! haha what a horrible daughter.
That was the point of the whole call and i didn't even say it. I'm
sorry mom :) i love you! i said that! that's what matters most right?
if you want small martroshka dolls they are like 15 dollars or so
which isn't bad. we went to look at prices today and i found one for
mom that was so so funny and i had to buy it :)
as with Larissa, we are praying hard and alot for her. I think that
everything will work out, and she will be baptized. Just maybe not
while i am here. But i am trying to keep in mind that its not about me
:) its about her and the Lords timing haha. but its hard to remember
that. But she is so great. I love having meetings with her because its
like we just get to take the topic and dissect and discuss it and
really get deep down into what it means in our lives. its incredible.
and Tamara that also wants to get baptized just is so close. She is
so great and close to the spirit and has a HUGE DESIRE but the smoking
thing is just holding her back. But it will be ok.
i will tell you about another day that we had this week that was
great. I'm just going to rewrite what i wrote in my journal so you can
get the emotion of it or whatever.
Today was one of those days that just makes you know that Heavenly
Father is watching out for us. That he sees the work that we do and
wants us to know that he appreciates us and will eventually reward us
in His own time and his own way..... we had district meeting which was
always great and we didn't have any meetings set up until 6 so we had
a few hours to do some finding. We had earlier decided to go drop by
some old old investigators that we found in the area book that had no
numbers and only addresses. I was praying really hard and trying to
have faith and a good attitude about contacting and dropping by
randomly to people (not usually effective. we only had 3 addresses and
the first two no one was home. I was frustrated. We had prayed really
hard and we had felt that this was what Heavenly Father had wanted us
to do today and i was starting to ask "why?".....gotta admit i was
murmuring. we got to the third address and rang the domophone and
they just opened the door for us....strange. so we went up and knocked
on the door. a nice young girl said that her parents weren't home. She
remembered us "missionaries" and said that we could come in and she
would call her parents. They had been walking the dog, but they came
back to meet with us. Their names are Georgi and oksana. She used to
come to church alot alot and knows alot about our doctrine. he is
really great, never came to our church but is taking bible school
online or something- just for fun. So we just began talking and
teaching. I don't know how but i knew all the bible verses he was going
to use before he even said them. I knew where they were, who the
apostle was talking to and the background info. it was crazy. I
guess my study of the bible last year paid off- the holy ghost really
can reach back into our memory and pull out old info. it was a great
conversation and lesson. They both just want to know truth. We asked
if they wanted to pray with us at the end and they were both just so
excited! they jumped on their knees and we asked him to give the
prayer. he gave a great sincere prayer.
Now- I'm guessing that you are thinking how great and normal that
lesson was right? well don't worry- theres more. we are in Russia of
course. So in the middle of our discussion she said that she wanted to
give us something to drink. we said no tea or coffee and she said she
knew that- she wanted to give us Birch tree juice. huh
uh....ya....straight from a birch tree and then they add some stuff
and also raisins and its turns into this thick slime...haha and then
she wanted to feed us a spoonful of something "very healthy" and she
gave me some and she asked how it was "i told her i felt like i was
eating a tree" haha she laughed and said it was crushed pine cones or
something like that. haha just so funny because we are having a great
spiritual discussion on which i am trying to concentrate while eating
a tree.
and it doesn't end after that. we also went by a lady who told the
elders she wanted to meet us. This old lady is a saint. her name is
Hadeshjda (Hope). she is so great and just held the Book of Mormon
like it was her most precious possession. it was great. I have been
praying really hard to leave my companion with some great new
investigators and we have been blessed.
well- that's the story. i will try to find some more sleds for jake-
and i thought of a funny gift for the boys that is even more modern
Russian than old boxes. haha i will buy a few and you all can pick
what you want and then we can gift them to other people.
The church is true. the Holy Ghost is our guide and needs to be our
greatest desire, just as it was for the nephites. If He is with us we
won't go astray. So ask for His companionship and live worthy of it!
I love you
Sister Trottier
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