I love Perm !

The goal this past week was to get 19 meetings in the week and unfortunately we fell short. We got 9 meetings! AGHHH ha-ha-ha.  Last week started off with the rest of our P-day, when Elder H and I went downtown for some cologne then we went bowling at the fancy hotel with the rest of the Elders from Perm. I love Perm! Everyone asks me how living in Las Vegas was and I reply, "Hotter than this!!" ha-ha

At the beginning of last week I was trying to be more organized and better with setting up meetings with people but I think the Lord had a lesson for us this week because most of them fell through. Tuesday began with two meetings planned to them becoming canceled then I set up another then changed it then I decided we needed to turn the day around! I said to my companion, "This calls for KFC!."

After I figured that we could contact our referral by stopping by there house and see what happens. We stopped by and they were super, super, super excited! We introduced ourselves and then we sat there for two hours!!! The White Handbook states that dinner appointments are to be 1 hour at the most, but I got some advice and an exception. If they don't want you to leave and free food is placed in front of you and you try to be polite here in Russia then you will leave on bad terms.  They let us in and the lady said, "SIT! EAT and don't be polite!" (all in command form!) All I could say was that we wouldn’t be shy ha-ha. They brought out jam, Russian pancakes, tea after tea after tea, cookies, and pelmeni! (ooooh boy!)

The rest of the week was great with things shaping up and meeting with investigators and in actives in our area. We have one investigator who runs a well-known yoga class here and we had a good lesson with her yesterday and we extended the baptismal commitment. I felt like it had to have been the most spiritual meeting of my whole mission so far, but she said, “No." It was disappointing, but she expressed a piece of why she didn't want to and all we did was testify, testify, and testify! She is so great!

This week looks great and I learned that setting weekly goals attached to how you are going to achieve them is a great help and that winging is inconvenient. Pictures of the ballet and my new area will be on next weeks email. So stay tuned! 

из Россий с любовью Старейшина ЛеФивэр ,

From Russia with Love Elder LeFevre

LOVE YOU ALL! Happy Thanksgiving!