Heathers Apartment
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Side note about Finland
In case you aren't aware Heather has to go to Finland every 3 months or so to get a new Visa so she goes with the people that got their visa at the same time which means she gets to see her MTC companion and go to the temple!
May 18th
And now FINLAND! It is practically like Disneyland! It was incredible! All of
the missionaries say that is a magical place but I just didn't understand until
I went there! It’s like...well Europe! The streets are clean, the air is clean,
it’s quiet, but not and people are nice and speak English and smile and have
somewhere to go! we just walked aimlessly around Helsinki taking pictures etc
and then we took a ferry which was great in and of itself to an island which was
so cute and had fortresses and cannons that we took pictures with (and in) :)
Finland has the best yogurt ever. And really good chocolate! It was me sister
margolies and west and 5 elders who were cool and fun to be with. We stayed in
the temple housing which was nice and we had a big kitchen to cook and stuff and
we of course went to the temple. The temple is incredible. I am so grateful
that I get to go every three months on my mission. and yes as you mentioned I
saw Ken Frei's grandparents there :) he had told me that they were going to be
there so I looked for them...wasn't hard to find them seeing as though there are
like 8 temple workers total haha but it was nice to see them they are both very
sweet. Anyways it was short and quick and most of our time was spent in
airports and on airplanes but it was fun! We got home and slept the whole day
because we were so dead tired!
So I want to tell you a story about two babushka (grandmas) we got to church
early to help set up chairs, about 40 minutes early and we saw two of our
faithful women in the branch, they are really really old and walk really really
slow. They were standing at the bottom of the stairs just looking up. To get to
our chapel you have to climb two sets of stairs to get inside and then climb 3
floors of stairs. And they were gearing themselves up for it. One took the
others hand and said "alright, let’s go" and they started their long trek. And
it hadn't started there. They woke up early in the morning, got ready, climbed
down all the stairs from their apartment, walked to the bus stop and then from
the next bus stop to our building. They came in just minutes before church
started. My heart just ached and rejoiced at the same time for these two women.
All of our trials are different, but this is a hard one! They sacrifice so much
all because they love the lord. It was a great example tome.
On Tuesday we had a meeting with an inactive family that we are making progress
with and we watched the movie Spiritual Crocodiles! You should watch it! It’s
legit! And anyways the kid is like 7 and he thought it was so COOL! He didn't
really get the point but the mom did. He likes to play games and so we played
"down by the banks" they thought it was so funny! And they want me to translate
it for them! I guess that counts as good language study right?
That night there was a fireside with the Temple President from Kiev. SO MANY
people came included our investigator! And it was so great! They are Canadian
and he was a Russian professor at BYU-I so he speaks Russian! Oddly enough his
Russian accent sounds Jamaican.....but it was so good and the spirit was so
strong. He used to be the mission president here and a lot of inactives came to
see him. He is so inspired and reminded them of how it felt to feel the spirit,
how it was when they received the gospel and how their ancestors want them to do
their work. I felt like his whole talk was in English! So if you were wondering
I can completely understand Americans when they speak Russian! That’s a start
right? He came and talked to all of us as Missionaries after and he said he
felt inspired to tell us that great things will happen in Omsk but that it all
depends on the faith of the missionaries. He also compared having a good
attitude to having faith and said it was not the same thing. I think that I need
to work on that. He said that in one mission he was over they went from 150
baptisms a year to 1000 just because of the faith of the missionaries!! Wow!
Today for pday we rented bikes and rode them around park! I forgot how much I
like to ride bikes! And they had sweet track with hills and jumps and stuff! I
went on it...just saying....it was super fun!
I have been reading in Romans and have come to love it. So far Romans 8 is my
favorite. It is all about living by the spirit, praying by the spirit and just
basically being by the spirit and not of the world. It’s an incredible
chapter! Today I read a verse I really liked and stood out to me it was Romans
14:12. "everyone of us shall give account of himself before God". I don’t
know why but that just really hit me. It didn't say that God is going to tell us
all that we did wrong, but rather we are going to remember all that we did and
didn't do and we are going to have to tell Him what that is. That to me feels
like he is putting the responsibility more on our shoulders, that what we do and
what we don't do we have to tell Him. That would be hard to say that you hadn't
given your all, don't you think?
I have been thinking, as I teach people about prayer, faith and hope and
diligence and applying the atonement, sometimes as I am having a hard time as I
feel like I can't do any more or its too hard or I don't know what to do I have
to step back from myself and say, "sister Trottier, what did you teach Sister
Nina today?, or Rosalia? Or Larissa" and so forth. It’s funny and sounds dumb
kind of but I realized that I just have to give myself the lessons in my head
that I just taught other people and apply them to me! Brilliant thought eh?
I’m not gonna lie, the investigator status of all of our investigators is
plummeting. Kinda feel like we are not doing much right now.....Galina won’t
talk to us so that baptism is not going to happen. I guess now we just have to
hit the streets and find new investigators...which is harder than it sounds
but....we will go and do of course! I just need to work on the whole following
the spirit about where to be, who to talk to and what inspired questions to
ask. I have found that as I don't listen to the spirit and don't talk to people
I feel that I should their faces haunt me and I feel guilt! Even this one man
from my first week. it has taught me to never disregard the spirit, even though
it still happens, I saw this family today even....and I should have talked to
them and I didn't, I justified cause we were dirty and sweaty from bike
riding...but that doesn't matter! . I read this section in book my Harold B lee
I think and it says, something to the effect of, if you ask for guidance and
don't follow when the spirit directs you better not ask again.....whoa! I guess
that means repent and gain back his trust eh? President Trejo wrote me and said
"make 6:30-10:30 the Lords time and be on His errand" I am His hands right now.
What an incredible privilege! I will try to be better and to live up to my
status and the Lords Missionary.
I love you!
Sister Trottier
P.S. I forgot to tell you about my dream! I got home and all of our friends
were having a friend high school party reunion and I asked what we were doing
and everyone got kind of quiet and told me that it was only for those that were
married! And they said I couldn't come. So I was like...uh ok so I was sad and
decided to go to a movie by myself and got there and all of them were there!!
And they looked at me and said uhh...I thought we told you that you had to be
married to come?!!!! haha! It was so funny! Except not! It was sad! So I guess
subconsciously I am worried about not being married and everyone else being
married! Oh dear! Well all I am saying is that all you getting married still
have to be my friend when I get home! haha! Thought that I would share that
dream with you...I thought it was funny...
the missionaries say that is a magical place but I just didn't understand until
I went there! It’s like...well Europe! The streets are clean, the air is clean,
it’s quiet, but not and people are nice and speak English and smile and have
somewhere to go! we just walked aimlessly around Helsinki taking pictures etc
and then we took a ferry which was great in and of itself to an island which was
so cute and had fortresses and cannons that we took pictures with (and in) :)
Finland has the best yogurt ever. And really good chocolate! It was me sister
margolies and west and 5 elders who were cool and fun to be with. We stayed in
the temple housing which was nice and we had a big kitchen to cook and stuff and
we of course went to the temple. The temple is incredible. I am so grateful
that I get to go every three months on my mission. and yes as you mentioned I
saw Ken Frei's grandparents there :) he had told me that they were going to be
there so I looked for them...wasn't hard to find them seeing as though there are
like 8 temple workers total haha but it was nice to see them they are both very
sweet. Anyways it was short and quick and most of our time was spent in
airports and on airplanes but it was fun! We got home and slept the whole day
because we were so dead tired!
So I want to tell you a story about two babushka (grandmas) we got to church
early to help set up chairs, about 40 minutes early and we saw two of our
faithful women in the branch, they are really really old and walk really really
slow. They were standing at the bottom of the stairs just looking up. To get to
our chapel you have to climb two sets of stairs to get inside and then climb 3
floors of stairs. And they were gearing themselves up for it. One took the
others hand and said "alright, let’s go" and they started their long trek. And
it hadn't started there. They woke up early in the morning, got ready, climbed
down all the stairs from their apartment, walked to the bus stop and then from
the next bus stop to our building. They came in just minutes before church
started. My heart just ached and rejoiced at the same time for these two women.
All of our trials are different, but this is a hard one! They sacrifice so much
all because they love the lord. It was a great example tome.
On Tuesday we had a meeting with an inactive family that we are making progress
with and we watched the movie Spiritual Crocodiles! You should watch it! It’s
legit! And anyways the kid is like 7 and he thought it was so COOL! He didn't
really get the point but the mom did. He likes to play games and so we played
"down by the banks" they thought it was so funny! And they want me to translate
it for them! I guess that counts as good language study right?
That night there was a fireside with the Temple President from Kiev. SO MANY
people came included our investigator! And it was so great! They are Canadian
and he was a Russian professor at BYU-I so he speaks Russian! Oddly enough his
Russian accent sounds Jamaican.....but it was so good and the spirit was so
strong. He used to be the mission president here and a lot of inactives came to
see him. He is so inspired and reminded them of how it felt to feel the spirit,
how it was when they received the gospel and how their ancestors want them to do
their work. I felt like his whole talk was in English! So if you were wondering
I can completely understand Americans when they speak Russian! That’s a start
right? He came and talked to all of us as Missionaries after and he said he
felt inspired to tell us that great things will happen in Omsk but that it all
depends on the faith of the missionaries. He also compared having a good
attitude to having faith and said it was not the same thing. I think that I need
to work on that. He said that in one mission he was over they went from 150
baptisms a year to 1000 just because of the faith of the missionaries!! Wow!
Today for pday we rented bikes and rode them around park! I forgot how much I
like to ride bikes! And they had sweet track with hills and jumps and stuff! I
went on it...just saying....it was super fun!
I have been reading in Romans and have come to love it. So far Romans 8 is my
favorite. It is all about living by the spirit, praying by the spirit and just
basically being by the spirit and not of the world. It’s an incredible
chapter! Today I read a verse I really liked and stood out to me it was Romans
14:12. "everyone of us shall give account of himself before God". I don’t
know why but that just really hit me. It didn't say that God is going to tell us
all that we did wrong, but rather we are going to remember all that we did and
didn't do and we are going to have to tell Him what that is. That to me feels
like he is putting the responsibility more on our shoulders, that what we do and
what we don't do we have to tell Him. That would be hard to say that you hadn't
given your all, don't you think?
I have been thinking, as I teach people about prayer, faith and hope and
diligence and applying the atonement, sometimes as I am having a hard time as I
feel like I can't do any more or its too hard or I don't know what to do I have
to step back from myself and say, "sister Trottier, what did you teach Sister
Nina today?, or Rosalia? Or Larissa" and so forth. It’s funny and sounds dumb
kind of but I realized that I just have to give myself the lessons in my head
that I just taught other people and apply them to me! Brilliant thought eh?
I’m not gonna lie, the investigator status of all of our investigators is
plummeting. Kinda feel like we are not doing much right now.....Galina won’t
talk to us so that baptism is not going to happen. I guess now we just have to
hit the streets and find new investigators...which is harder than it sounds
but....we will go and do of course! I just need to work on the whole following
the spirit about where to be, who to talk to and what inspired questions to
ask. I have found that as I don't listen to the spirit and don't talk to people
I feel that I should their faces haunt me and I feel guilt! Even this one man
from my first week. it has taught me to never disregard the spirit, even though
it still happens, I saw this family today even....and I should have talked to
them and I didn't, I justified cause we were dirty and sweaty from bike
riding...but that doesn't matter! . I read this section in book my Harold B lee
I think and it says, something to the effect of, if you ask for guidance and
don't follow when the spirit directs you better not ask again.....whoa! I guess
that means repent and gain back his trust eh? President Trejo wrote me and said
"make 6:30-10:30 the Lords time and be on His errand" I am His hands right now.
What an incredible privilege! I will try to be better and to live up to my
status and the Lords Missionary.
I love you!
Sister Trottier
P.S. I forgot to tell you about my dream! I got home and all of our friends
were having a friend high school party reunion and I asked what we were doing
and everyone got kind of quiet and told me that it was only for those that were
married! And they said I couldn't come. So I was like...uh ok so I was sad and
decided to go to a movie by myself and got there and all of them were there!!
And they looked at me and said uhh...I thought we told you that you had to be
married to come?!!!! haha! It was so funny! Except not! It was sad! So I guess
subconsciously I am worried about not being married and everyone else being
married! Oh dear! Well all I am saying is that all you getting married still
have to be my friend when I get home! haha! Thought that I would share that
dream with you...I thought it was funny...
May 11th
Hey! So i just talked to you.....so i don't have much to say! haha but i am sure i will be able to fill up all of my time rambling and still say nothing at all and a whole lot all at the same time! it was so great talking to you all. I love you so much! It probably would have been easier after if we just went to go work, but it was lock down day for the Russian Victory Day so we went to the Senior Couples and watched movies and ate a lot of really good food! they made mexican food and strawberry shortcake and chocolate cake for someones birthday! whew! it was a lot of really good food. and we watch Invictus and Tangled and How to train your dragon! :) it was fun but a really trunky day...and i felt like we just wasted ALOT of time....but it was fun. Today for pday we went to TGI Fridays and at a big cheeseburger and an oreo shake!!!! it was delicious!
I am happy that you got my package! i was worried that it would never get here! people were telling me horror stories that their packages never got there! and keep eating the peanut butter stuff...it grows on you! or give it to my friends to try....hehe
i love you! the church is true! sorry that my time is up! but.....tomorrow i will go to finland! so i will have cool stories to tell! I started reading "Our Search for Happiness" before i go to bed and when i eat breakfast. its really good! I will have to tell youa bout it later. :) ps. i have been typing so fast today that ihave a blister on my thumb from pushing the space bar...weird.....
I love you!
Sister Trottier
Mothers Day Talked
We got to talk to Heather on mothers day!
I was so great to hear her voice and she sounded so happy and wonderful it was great.
We talked for about an hour and updated her on our lives and asked her a billion questions.
Her Russion sounded great and to our professional ears she was pretty much perfect! She even told us a very excited story about one of her investigators in Russion without alot of pauses or hesitations. (then she translated it into english so we knew what she was so excited about)
At the end she bore her testimony in Russion and made everyone cry and then we had issues hanging up but we did it eventually.
I was so great to hear her voice and she sounded so happy and wonderful it was great.
We talked for about an hour and updated her on our lives and asked her a billion questions.
Her Russion sounded great and to our professional ears she was pretty much perfect! She even told us a very excited story about one of her investigators in Russion without alot of pauses or hesitations. (then she translated it into english so we knew what she was so excited about)
At the end she bore her testimony in Russion and made everyone cry and then we had issues hanging up but we did it eventually.
May 4th
Dad asked about what I do day to day.....um.....well we study and since I am
still a greenie we study until from 8 to 12 and then we grab something quick to
eat and head out! We try to plan our meetings close together because have a
huge area but the perfect goal is to have 5 lessons a day! But I don't think
anyone does that....we end up having 1-3 a day and maybe four if we are really,
really lucky. It takes at least 20 minutes to get to our appointments but
usually longer, 20 minutes is our absolute closest! we do a lot of walking but
not a ton we are mostly on buses, or trolley busses or the tramvai....I don't
know how to spell that in English.... so we spend a lot of time on transport.
We split our time up by strengthening the members, visiting inactives, and
teaching new members and investigators. We don't set up eating appointments but
we are usually fed 3ish times a week by members or inactives and they like to
give you tea...everyone loves tea. What else? It’s getting pretty hot here my
thin white jacket is too warm in the day time.
Random-I was showing pictures to a babushka and she pointed to matt and said
that he looked like the guy on Titanic! haha so congrats matt! You are the new
Leo!!!!! :) hahah! I laughed...
This weekend there were 3 baptisms, a cute little kid named Daniel whose sister
is a member and a members wife and my favorite investigator Dennis!!! Since I
have gotten here everyone has been talking about how to get Daniel baptized, I
think every set of missionaries has tried to teach him, but his sister was weird
about it and his mom was a litte against it but he just went up to one of the
elders and said "I want you to baptize me" and he is so cute! He is like 10 I
think and I just love him. He always comes up to talk to me. He is just shy and
quiet and after he was baptized he was just grinning from ear to ear! After he
changed I came up to me and grabbed both my hands between his little ones and I
asked him how he felt and he just put his little hands over his heart and said
very very good. peace. happy. Well it sound better in Russian but it was
incredible! Dennis was baptized on Sunday and I guess the water was really
really COLD and as he came out of the water he gasped! But then he laughed!
and Nastia had to be baptized like 6 times because they couldn't get her under
all of the way! But we joked that she was cleaner than everyone.
On Monday we had fhe with some members and our investigators Dasha and Baleri
(couple-want to get married) and for the game we played Uno! It was so funny!
And I was thinking...here we are stressing family night so so much! We try to
meet with as many families as possible and all the branch presidents are
stressing family home evening and I was thinking that if it is so important here
than it must be important for everyone and for all of you! So my challenge is
for you to do family home evening every week. We do FHE with just couples and
they encourage families to invite young people or single people to their family
home evening so everyone has a place to go. It is so important. Families are the
most important part of this gospel, and spending time together and talking and
playing and sharing our thoughts about the gospel will strengthen yours. :)
From the mutual theme "we believe" they have three things for you to do every
day that will change you and make you happy.
1. Pray morning and night-
2 read the book of Mormon 5 minutes a day (at least) and
3 smile! You should all try it! Works miracles!
Right now I am reading in Acts and Paul is just the greatest isn't he?! He has
been traveling in Rome and Athens and Corinth and the whole time I am reading I
think "I was there!" "I saw that!" It is so legit! The scriptures just come to
life! He is so incredible! I love how Paul says that he is willing to not only
be taken in bonds but to give up his life for Jesus Christ. He is willing to
give up everything. He is an awesome missionary and disciple.
Today I also read 4th Nephi. That is a sweet chapter, it starts out that
EVERYONE is righteous! How great is that? And it outlines all of the blessings
they get because of that- those are the blessings we can receive. And it ends
with EVERYONE being wicked and how did they fall? And why? It was PRIDE!!
wheeew! pride is bad....I also read Pres. Bensons talk "Beware of Pride" this
week...maybe I need to work on that.....
Anyways...I love you! I’m so happy to be here and I Love serving my Heavenly
Father. And I love helping others some unto Him and to feel of His love. I hope
all is well! Talk to you soon! Don't forget to call!!!
Sister Trottier
still a greenie we study until from 8 to 12 and then we grab something quick to
eat and head out! We try to plan our meetings close together because have a
huge area but the perfect goal is to have 5 lessons a day! But I don't think
anyone does that....we end up having 1-3 a day and maybe four if we are really,
really lucky. It takes at least 20 minutes to get to our appointments but
usually longer, 20 minutes is our absolute closest! we do a lot of walking but
not a ton we are mostly on buses, or trolley busses or the tramvai....I don't
know how to spell that in English.... so we spend a lot of time on transport.
We split our time up by strengthening the members, visiting inactives, and
teaching new members and investigators. We don't set up eating appointments but
we are usually fed 3ish times a week by members or inactives and they like to
give you tea...everyone loves tea. What else? It’s getting pretty hot here my
thin white jacket is too warm in the day time.
Random-I was showing pictures to a babushka and she pointed to matt and said
that he looked like the guy on Titanic! haha so congrats matt! You are the new
Leo!!!!! :) hahah! I laughed...
This weekend there were 3 baptisms, a cute little kid named Daniel whose sister
is a member and a members wife and my favorite investigator Dennis!!! Since I
have gotten here everyone has been talking about how to get Daniel baptized, I
think every set of missionaries has tried to teach him, but his sister was weird
about it and his mom was a litte against it but he just went up to one of the
elders and said "I want you to baptize me" and he is so cute! He is like 10 I
think and I just love him. He always comes up to talk to me. He is just shy and
quiet and after he was baptized he was just grinning from ear to ear! After he
changed I came up to me and grabbed both my hands between his little ones and I
asked him how he felt and he just put his little hands over his heart and said
very very good. peace. happy. Well it sound better in Russian but it was
incredible! Dennis was baptized on Sunday and I guess the water was really
really COLD and as he came out of the water he gasped! But then he laughed!
and Nastia had to be baptized like 6 times because they couldn't get her under
all of the way! But we joked that she was cleaner than everyone.
On Monday we had fhe with some members and our investigators Dasha and Baleri
(couple-want to get married) and for the game we played Uno! It was so funny!
And I was thinking...here we are stressing family night so so much! We try to
meet with as many families as possible and all the branch presidents are
stressing family home evening and I was thinking that if it is so important here
than it must be important for everyone and for all of you! So my challenge is
for you to do family home evening every week. We do FHE with just couples and
they encourage families to invite young people or single people to their family
home evening so everyone has a place to go. It is so important. Families are the
most important part of this gospel, and spending time together and talking and
playing and sharing our thoughts about the gospel will strengthen yours. :)
From the mutual theme "we believe" they have three things for you to do every
day that will change you and make you happy.
1. Pray morning and night-
2 read the book of Mormon 5 minutes a day (at least) and
3 smile! You should all try it! Works miracles!
Right now I am reading in Acts and Paul is just the greatest isn't he?! He has
been traveling in Rome and Athens and Corinth and the whole time I am reading I
think "I was there!" "I saw that!" It is so legit! The scriptures just come to
life! He is so incredible! I love how Paul says that he is willing to not only
be taken in bonds but to give up his life for Jesus Christ. He is willing to
give up everything. He is an awesome missionary and disciple.
Today I also read 4th Nephi. That is a sweet chapter, it starts out that
EVERYONE is righteous! How great is that? And it outlines all of the blessings
they get because of that- those are the blessings we can receive. And it ends
with EVERYONE being wicked and how did they fall? And why? It was PRIDE!!
wheeew! pride is bad....I also read Pres. Bensons talk "Beware of Pride" this
week...maybe I need to work on that.....
Anyways...I love you! I’m so happy to be here and I Love serving my Heavenly
Father. And I love helping others some unto Him and to feel of His love. I hope
all is well! Talk to you soon! Don't forget to call!!!
Sister Trottier
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
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
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