August 6, 2012

So I got my haircut today outside our house where there was a giant poster of Keith Urban. This led me to believing that they know what they are doing, but a couple of things were lost in the translation and she was not in a good mood so you may see some pictures of me in a Russian style hairdo. I told her the number and explained it and yet she still went with it really short at the beginning and left longer bangs. Yeah, picture that on Elder LeFevre! No worries, we got it all evened out before we left.

Yekaterinburg is doing great. It is different managing a big zone and our phone goes off nonstop it seems like. The week was really good and we had time to be out on the streets and talk to people, which I love to do everyday of the week. The Russian people are my favorite. We decided last week that we need to get ourselves really organized as leaders in order to compensate for all the decision making that we have to do and planning. During weekly planning, I had a great idea in my head of what to do as a zone on a contacting blitz, but integrated with a game and rules. We will be having the Amazing Race in our zone this Saturday in the seven key's area to boost their contacts and help them find new investigators. It is going to be awesome!! We will have six companionship's participating to complete tasks such as the number of street meetings on the way to each checkpoint. However there will be no roadblocks. Ha-ha.. that would be a waste of our time.

Last Monday we played baseball with a mini bat and taught our investigator and members here how to play baseball with some of the rules. It was awesome cause we were playing in the rain and now today it is blazing hot! The climate here is one of a kind. Before you know it there will be snow on the ground again and we will be living with no sunlight. I can't wait. 

Time is flying by so fast and I love the mission so much. We had a couple of other meetings last week with some potential investigators and we dropped others, because I will refuse to argue and debate on any religious subject. You can tell very quickly if things or meetings are going to be worth your time from the first few moments of a lesson. Right now we are getting referrals of a few members that we need to visit in our new area. It has been a slow transition in moving the first group of elders into their new apartment and then us and the sisters into our old one. We will now be living with the assistants and have to travel into our area everyday. (We will be buying a sweet travel card! Souvenir.

Other than that, we went contacting a ton this past week and just trying to find new people to teach and plan out cool activities to get the members excited about missionary work and get to know them as well. We don't want this feeling as if there were a giant wall in-between us and the members. Our area is great and I feel that there is a ton of work that needs to be done in it after we talked to Daniel and Pres. S. We have some the coolest members in our area! I love starting off from scratch, but I am praying that we can get more focused on our area and not working out other problems. The mission is teaching me a lot about life and I cannot get enough learning about the gospel of Jesus Christ our Redeemer every day! 

Love you all!!

Elder LeFevre