Warming up

Such a warm day in Chely today. Lately we have been heavy laden with snow and then walking in giant puddles everywhere!! It is almost impossible to keep those shoes clean from the dirty mess that has been created as the snow melts. We had a great week last week in our proselyting efforts on the street and among the homes of our investigators. We now have two baptismal dates for our area! I am so excited to keep helping them forward towards baptism! We found one man on the street, which we hadn't been able to keep in good contact with for a while, but one day we came in off the streets and decided to give him a call and found that he was down to meet and learn more about the church! We had the first lesson with him and we invited him to be baptized. He said he had to think about it and pray and read. The second meeting he said "YES." We have some good progressing investigators in our area right now as we have seen blessings from our labors on the streets and talking with people at English Conversational group. We are right now trying to help them see the need to be baptized and teach towards their concerns and questions. One asked a tough question on a meeting with him as we discussed our purpose as missionaries to him, he cut us off and told us he knew why. He then asked us ,"Why do we do the whole church thing?" We both shared testimony on how the knowledge of the gospel simply guides us and gives peace in this life, which the same happiness is achievable after this life. 

We like to call our zone the "white horse" because we are trying to become missionaries who keep the line of investigators coming even after a baptism and not try to work back up. It is going great and we met our Senior missionaries last Saturday morning after our five hour bus ride to Yekaterinburg! Yeah I know, it was a long ride and the bus was not too nice of a ride itself. It was super hot and packed with people. Well, we picked them up and headed back to Chely to acquaint them with the apartment. We have spent good amount of time getting to know them well and have enjoyed the great spirit they bring to the work in Chely. We got in and helped them with settling in to the apartment and faced connection problems with the filters and the fridge. No worries, however, the maintenance guy took care of all the problems there! Yeah! We love the Senior missionaries!! The members are super excited, as well as the missionaries. Today we will be going to Zone Leader Council in Yekat again! Whoo Hoo, Another bus! Then we will return and meet with another investigator who is close to moving with baptism. This has been definitely the hardest couple of transfers I have faced on my whole mission and the funnest too! Love the mission and the Norwegian chocolate too! Thanks for the chocolate it is definitely good! 
Love you all!
Elder LeFevre