HI EVERYONE!!!!!!
This week was so crazy. It was one of those weeks that went by so fast, but was so filled that when I look back at last Monday I wonder how all that happened could have happened in just one short week. So I will start with last Tuesday night. I got to my new area all safe and sound. Sister Tunney and Cunningham met me at the train station and we all went back to their very small and cold apartment here. We talked until we fell asleep and it was so good just to hear about how their missions have been and how this new area would be. As Sister Tunney said, "This is the land of milk and honey." That really is true, they had a baptism every month last year and all of those who had been baptized in that year are active and doing well, which is wonderful. They have this new member that just got baptized last Saturday named Lubov. She is so amazing. Her husband was completely against her being baptized, but eventually allowed her to do it. Then this past week when we met with her she said that she and her husband hadn't fought all week and that her husband had started reading the book of mormon! This was such a big miracle for her in her life and it was such a testimony builder for her also. I am so glad that Heavenly Father blessed her for making a hard decision.
We saw a few more miracles this week also. One of them happened on Wednesday morning at 6:35 in the morning. So Sister Cunningham left for V-grad on Wednesday morning and the night before she had arranged for a member to come and pick us all up to take her to the train station. The train left at 6:50 and she told him to be there to get us at 6:10. Plenty of time, but at 6:35 he still wasn't there... So we called him and he was like, "I'll be there in 5 minutes..." Which was not good, because we would have been completely and totally not on time. But right when she hung up the phone a taxi drove by, saw us with the bags, stopped and asked us if we needed a ride. It was such a big miracle. He drove as fast as he could and we got Sister Cunningham on the train at 6:48.
So the next miracle started out in a very stressful way, so as I mentioned about before, our apartment here was so cold when I got here, and the day after I got here the freezing temperatures hit... Yep lucky me. So we wake up and it's about 50 degrees in our apartment, so we call Sister Nechiporova and ask her if we can buy a space heater. She said of course and then asked us what the temperature was in our apartment, when she found out she said, "okay we will look for a new apartment today." So later that day (friday) we found a new apartment and the next day (Saturday) we moved. It was even more stressful than normal because our old apartment was an attachment to a members house... so that was just a little akward... But now for the miracle. So we go on Saturday and meet our new landlady and landlord at our apartment and they show us how everything works and stuff and then they were asking us about our church because naturally they're curious. So as the landlady is showing us how to work the washing machine, the landlord is talking to the elders. They give him a book of mormon and a plan of salvation pamphlet and challenge him to read the introduction. So then Sunday the landlord and lady have to come over again to give us another set of keys and they get there and ask us more questions because they had read what they elders challenged them to read and had more questions. So right there we just teach them the restoration lesson and they are so interested. They ask us where our church is and what time it starts and it was just so coo! I just love how God really does know his children and puts us where we need to be in order to teach those that are ready.
This was such a crazy and good wonderful week I love my life and my mission and I am so happy to be serving the lord!
Love,
Sister Leavitt
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