Rich Soil

Not gunna lie, slightly freaking out about the whole going home in a month deal. I'm pretty much terrified ha. It's going to be the longest 21 hour flight of my life I'm sure of it.  Sounds like I'll have a pretty busy couple of weeks right after I get home, I guess I'd better be ready to hit the ground running.

Don't worry Mom, I think I got the topic covered for Sunday lol. "Missionary Work in Russia", walk in the park. I've spoken every Sunday in church since arriving in Kemerovo so I don't think another talk will be a big deal.This week we spoke about faith. We had 9 people at church 2 members, 2 missionaries and 5 investigators! :) We may be in the "nethermost part of the vineyard" but the Lord knows what kind of soil to plant us in to help us grow. I always am the last one to speak here just in case there is reason to have to correct some doctrine or in case we have a lot of extra time. Elder Carr's been a champ about talking in church. He prepares a talk every week and then I get up after him and fill in the rest of the time. His Russian is coming along great.

So... This last week was a little more rough than I'd of liked. I kind of have, ok not kind of, I do have a superman complex. I get it from my Mom, I like to make sure that everything is always taken care of that there are no loose ends and that everything is done perfectly. Anyways, sometimes it feels like I've just got a big weight on my shoulders being one of two missionaries in a city of over half a million people. And this week, it was just one thing after another that kept happening. I feel kind of like Satan was just taking swings at my legs as I run this race.

After we had finished English Club up on Tuesday, after a rough day, I open my bag and find that some of my stuff was stolen. My camera was stolen...I was way bummed, the last 3 months of my mission were on there, I hadn't put them on my hard drive yet, and plus, it was the camera strap that Aunt Megan made me (that Libbie and the G' boys gave me :(  was on it :( I seriously was way upset. We got home that night and Elder Carr and I got ready for bed. As I layed there in bed I knew that I wasn't going to fall asleep any time soon so I got out of bed and on my knees and just poured my soul out. It felt very good to just get it all off my shoulders. I need to keep remembering,  that this is His work and that He's really here with us. Don't worry about the camera though, Elder Carr's taking lots of pictures of our adventures and will make me a disc before I fly out of here.

Our investigators are doing well. They're all progressing, We're looking forward to the 26th when Galina and Lena will be getting baptized :) We're stoked! They're so ready it's not even funny! There really needs to be another set of missionaries in this city, we had to tell people that we couldn't meet with them this week because of the fact that we just didn't have time to meet with everyone. Who knows maybe when I leave they'll be able to bring in the big guns and get this city rolling!

Well that's about it for this week I'm thinking... we'll be going to Novo tomorrow for a Zone Confrence so yeah, last one of my mission. I'm not dead yet ha. So I'll keep running.

I love you guys :) Thanks for everything you do for me!


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Mom & Dad - No worries about the money thing, we actually went with Ulia shopping ---I got some some stuff because if you see it and you want it you buy it or you'll never see it again. I think I'm almost done, within a week or two I should be good to go.

Sounds like a plan for school and stuff, I'm glad I will  be busy when I get back. Oh hey, the Friday night when I get home let's not plan on anything big ... I owe someone a date ;)