Well, this week was pretty uneventful. Although Sister LeBaron and I have now organized a revolution in missionary work. You see these past couple of weeks have been pretty lame as far as lessons go, so this brought us to the conclusion that we should organize a revolution to get the missionary work... well working here. We have set up and devised a plan to have our members help us. Because our members here are so amazing, but I don't think that they realize just how much we rely on them for help in doing missionary work. Basically without the help of the members there wouldn't be missionary work. So the plan is to teach all of our members with in the next two weeks about testimony and how they received their testimonies and how it all started from someone telling them about our church... There's more to it than that, but in short after that we wave our magic missionary wands and sprinkle a little pixie dust and do a voodoo dance and magically we will have more members here in Russia! Isn't this a great plan!! We have started sharing this lesson with members and so far so good. In three weeks, for the next fast meeting our branch is all going to fast together that they will all have the opprotunity to share their testimony, or serve, or invite one of their family members or friends to meet with the missionaries. So that's the revolution, and don't be surprised if you hear about it on the news soon.
This week I was also sick for a day and I slept so much! It was so amazing. Then at about 5 pm I couldn't sleep any more so I made Sister LeBaron take me on a walk because I couldn't stay inside anymore!!!! Sister LeBaron also taught me how to knock again! I forgot how to do it because when it's warm outside we just contact all the time and don't really knock, but it has been getting pretty cold here, so we decided to start knocking again. It was a pretty interesting experience. We started in one old builing and we knocked the whole thing. Then, when we were knocking the very last door this guy walked into the builing and walked up the stairs and when he did that part of the ceiling fell right off and almost landed on me and Sister LeBaron... It was pretty sketchy, but pretty predictalbe for a Russian building. Do you want to know something weird? Well, I'll tell you. All Russian buildings are made out of concrete forms.... yep, they don't even use one spec of wood. They just build them out of concrete and put them together like you would build legos or something.... it's quite strange to me. Anyways, back to knocking. Later we went knocking in another building where we soon found ourselves being attacked by a naked dog!!!! He was about the size of a large rat and had a little ball of fur at the end of his tail. It made me laugh so much that I could barely get out who we were and why we were there. Needless to say, I forgot how much I really love knocking and that will now become the highlight of my life.
We have to move the baptisimal date for Katya and Alexander because they aren't quite ready.... This probably means that I won't get to see them get baptized because i suspect that I only have two weeks left in this area and then I will get transfered, but we never know. I am kind of sad about this though because it has been such an amazing opprotunity to be able to teach them. I have loved every minute of it. But I think that as long as they get baptized and stay active that that will be all that I need to know that I have helped them, and that their lives truly have been changed through Christ.
Well, that's all of the news for now. I know that you are all probably getting really excited because Cam comes home in two short days! I bet that feels better to say that two short years, huh mom? I wish I could be there with you all when he gets home, but I still have work to do. So, have fun and party without me for now... I love you all so much!!!!
Love,
Sister Leavitt
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