So this past week was great.
After Email last Monday we went to the bazaar and looked at some shopka
made out of raccoon and fox fur. They were really cool and not too bad
of a price. Maybe today I can talk them down. Later that night I went
on splits with Elder A to contact and stop by a member
to announce about invitation Sunday that we had yesterday. We stopped
by the member’s house and led a lesson with the kids. From that lesson we did receive
a nice little referral from her that we will be trying to get in contact with.
Tuesday morning we with Elder Y left in a taxi that was actually a FORD and not a LADA to the Bokzal. We got there to catch the electric train to Yekaterinburg, but Elder Y didn't have a print out of his ticket and the lady behind the desk told us to work out the problem ourselves. We have great customer service here btw. I love it!!! The train was scheduled to leave in five minutes. We ran across the tracks and the icy walkways to the train. Everything from that point on was a miracle. I showed the lady my ticket and she never did check Elder Young's ticket! The trip was a long hot ride for 6 1/2 hours to Yekat. Here in Russia you are never really at the right temperature you are either hot or cold throughout the year.
Tuesday morning we with Elder Y left in a taxi that was actually a FORD and not a LADA to the Bokzal. We got there to catch the electric train to Yekaterinburg, but Elder Y didn't have a print out of his ticket and the lady behind the desk told us to work out the problem ourselves. We have great customer service here btw. I love it!!! The train was scheduled to leave in five minutes. We ran across the tracks and the icy walkways to the train. Everything from that point on was a miracle. I showed the lady my ticket and she never did check Elder Young's ticket! The trip was a long hot ride for 6 1/2 hours to Yekat. Here in Russia you are never really at the right temperature you are either hot or cold throughout the year.
We
got to Zone Leader Council on time and had a great discussion on many
topics and things that will change the mission for the better in the
areas of our language skills and our finding activities. I was like a
sponge just soaking it all up! Everything was just working out for me as
well. Elder E found an apartment for the new elders that will be
here soon this next Friday after training and traveling. Everyone is
staying in Kurgan but we are glad and excited to receive Elders P
and his new missionary who is Russian. Everyone basically in our mission
is legit on every level. We
came back from Yekaterinburg Wednesday midnight to catch up on
some sleep but to leave on a bus to Tyumen because we would need to
leave for the airport in Tyumen next morning early to make our flight
to Moscow. I went on splits once again for the night to find people
on the street and use the techniques that we learned at ZLC, which
are great and helps with all of my communication skills. We talked to
some nice people and got some numbers for the Tyumen elders to meet
with.
My visa trip was short and sweet. I got some nice Karl Fazer dark chocolate with mint and I talked to a Finnish guy that was pretty awesome. I now know some Finnish...one or two words that is. Ha-ha. That language is ten times harder than anything I have seen and encountered. We came back to Tyumen Saturday morning after traveling for 24 hrs to catch up some sleep and then it was a 6 hour bus ride due to traffic coming out of Tyumen to Kurgan. We got to Kurgan and ate and stopped by our investigators that were close.
My visa trip was short and sweet. I got some nice Karl Fazer dark chocolate with mint and I talked to a Finnish guy that was pretty awesome. I now know some Finnish...one or two words that is. Ha-ha. That language is ten times harder than anything I have seen and encountered. We came back to Tyumen Saturday morning after traveling for 24 hrs to catch up some sleep and then it was a 6 hour bus ride due to traffic coming out of Tyumen to Kurgan. We got to Kurgan and ate and stopped by our investigators that were close.
Sunday was a great day. We awoke and
got ready for personal study and then went to wake up our investigator. We also
went tracting that night and we might have a new investigator,
who surprisingly believes in the same aspects of the gospel of Jesus
Christ and our church and was very knowledgeable in many things in
history. It about caused a little explosion in my head.
That was my crazy week and I hope to get work done here in Kurgan this week!!
LOVE YOU ALL!Elder LeFevre
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