This week has FINALLY been a busy one. It has been a big change transitioning from being inside for three weeks to going out and working full-force. I'm not back in the swing of things yet, but everything will be back to normal soon enough.
On Wednesday I said goodbye to Sister James. It was a sad parting, but it was for the best. I'm still here in good old Dachney! My new companion's name is Sister Leavitt. I lived with her in the MTC for a couple of weeks before she left for Russia and I've been on exchanges with her a couple of times. She's great! Transfers are in a couple of weeks and neither of us know if we will stay together for the next cycle or not. She's only a cycle older than me, so we've been doing our best with the knowledge that we have. The work is moving forward!
Every week the missionaries teach an English Group for members, investigators, and whoever else wants to come. We teach them principles from the missionary lessons in both English and Russian. This week we talked about The Tree of Life and the Elders decided that we should act it out. They set up "The Iron Rod" (a black streamer) across the multipurpose room and used a fake Christmas tree as "The Tree of Life." They hung some baggies of banana bread on the tree as the fruit. On either side of the rod there were people throwing candy at the participants trying to get them to let go of the rod, one elder was trying to entice the participants into playing a game of tic-tac-toe, one had a movie (Mormon Message) playing, and one was throwing crumpled up paper at us. Super funny! I'm not sure how much English they learned from that activity, but it was pretty entertaining.
Sister Leavitt and I saw a huge miracle this week while we were contacting. We ran into two cheerful-looking women who later told us that they were from Ukraine. They moved here with their family without any money, food, or a place to live. Just the fact that they're here with they're family makes them so happy. We were able to bear testimony about the importance of families in our church and they agreed to meet with us! They told us that they investigated the Jehovah's Witnesses church and they weren't interested in it. There is a surplus of JWs in Dachney, so it was nice to hear that they didn't want any part of it. I am so excited to see what will come from these wonderful ladies! The church is so true!
Funny stories! One afternoon when Sister Leavitt and I were contacting in a park, a huge flock of crows flew overhead and perched on the trees above us. I felt something hit my head and I prayed with all of my might that it was just some water dripping off of a branch or something. I touched the "water" with my hand and it came back white. I asked Sister Leavitt if there was something in my hair and she started laughing behind me, so that was a good indication that it wasn't water. Sister Leavitt used a hunk of ice to scrape the bird poop out of my hair... awesome.
Whilst being in Russia, I bought some rainboots to survive "The Great Melt" that happens between Winter and Spring. Literally every single time I've worn my rainboots on the street, at some point during the day I've either slipped into or fallen in a puddle that was deeper than my boots, thus turning my waterproof rainboots into little submarines. Rainboots are wonderful at both keeping water from entering and keeping water from exiting.
Also, I tried pumpkin juice for the first time. We were visiting a member who just got back from the hospital and she gave it to us. I was pumped to try it since it is referenced in Harry Potter and I figured it must be good if it's in there. Literally SO disgusting. Never again. The first couple of sips were okay... tasted like squash or something. The more I drank it, the nastier it got. I don't know what kind of pumpkin juice they drank in Harry Potter, but this stuff was horrid.
Welp, that's all for this week folks! Don't drink fantastical drinks or wear tiny submarines!
Do Svidanya!
Love,
Sister Megan Wagstaff
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