Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Grey skies are gonna clear up....So put on a HAPPY face!

Here is this weeks email.  Sister Leavitt has not lost her sense of humor, she keeps me laughing every week.  Enjoy, and next week will be her last email before she comes HOME!

Hey hey hey!!! Well the forecast for this part of the world is SNOW!!!! Okay, I don't actually know the forecast because we're not allowed to get on weather.com, but if this week is anything like last week, then it's Snow, snow, snow, SNOW! Well, I guess I should say that last week started out so wonderful! At the beginning of the week the temps were in the mid 40's!!! That was amazing, but then it just snowed all day Saturday and All day Sunday, so now it's just a winter wonderland here.

So here's the funny story for the week. We went to go see this babushka because it was her 83rd birthday and her family is a little bit... well rude to her (basically her daughter is just waiting for her to die so that they can have her apartment...). So we went over with the elders this week and brought her flowers and some fruit and she made us some food. So she brings out this drink for us, and it's just this typical Russian drink that we have everywhere called Kompote (which is just like homemade juice). So everyone tastes it, and she is not in the room by the way, and we all agree it is disgusting and perhaps a little fermented, except for one elder who thinks it is delicious and has already drank all of his cup. We all just laughed at him and told him it was fermented and that getting drunk on your mission is not allowed. It was so funny and perhaps a great example of why you should be careful about the food you eat when you're visiting people's homes in Russia. So anyways, follow up, the next morning when the elder woke up he said he had the most horrible headache of his life and was convinced that he was hung over, which made us laugh even more because all he had was a small cup of fermented Russian kompote, which shouldn't make anyone hung over. So that was our laugh this week.

In other news we have this investigator right now named Lyosha. He's super cool, just married a return missionary from our branch and now he is taking the missionary lessons. So things were going a little bit rough with him, but we prayed and planned and taught a lesson about prophets, and it was so cool because I don't know what changed but he was so much more accepting and actually full heartedly accepted the commitment to pray to know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and the Thomas S. Monson is his prophet right now. It was just a good lesson, and then they came to church together yesterday for the first time since I have been here, and it was just so good. It made me so happy about my life. So that's our miracle with him.

Also this week we went to this really good show where they sang and danced Russian style. Sister Tunney's dreams came true because she got to see a grown man do a toe touch, and I just loved my life the whole time we were watching it because I just love to watch good singing and dancing. So that's that, and it was a blast to have a "night on the town" well, it was only a two hour show, but it was still our night out for the transfer.

Okay, one last story. Since it was so snowy this week we went knocking last night. And just for reference on a list of things I love about missionary work, knocking would be placed in the bottom 3 right along with having to put up with drunk men and being squished between two stinky people on public transportation. Anyways, but we went knocking and it went actually pretty good at first and we actually taught a lesson and people were just being nice! It made me so happy and almost convinced me that I had the wrong idea about knocking. But then we got to this one building and it happened. This lady came out of her apartment and started yelling at us and telling us that she was going to call the police if we didn't get out and saying some not very nice things to us... and so we just got out of that building and went to the next and it was whatever. But then when we were waiting for a Tramvai to get home there was this little girl on a tram that was sticking her tongue out at me and then I started making faces at her and she thought it was funny and then as her tram pulled away we waved goodbye and then I was just so happy to be in Russia again because I had made a new friend. So the moral of this story is that we should be more child like and nicer to people who knock on our door trying to sell us stuff. Because that's what Jesus would do.

Well, I love you all and wish you the best of a week!

Until next time,

Sister Leavitt

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