Zdrastvuitye!
Such fun things happened this week! Including melting in the heat... I'm pretty sure Russia completely skips spring and jumps right into summer. Sister Wilson and I were boiling this week! The amount of miracles that we saw this week were just as high as the temperature!
One of our investigators got baptized!! Honestly, that was the biggest miracle ever because she has been such a tough nut to crack for these past few months. Her baptism was perfect and she was such a little ball of sunshine afterwards. The day before her baptism, she swore to us that she would not get baptized if the water in the font was cold, so we were mortified when we showed up to the church building on the day of her baptism and found that the water was freezing cold! The amazing Elders in my District spent the next hour filling up tea kettles and heating pots of water to dump into the font. Right before her baptism started, the water was still frigid. We were so nervous! When she stepped into the water, she didn't wince, she didn't make any sort of indication that the water was cold. When we asked her afterward how the water temperature was, she said, "It was warm! It wasn't cold at all." Miracle! The Elder who baptized her said that the water was ice cold! The Lord looks out for us! No doubt!
We have such a crazy investigator! She is so much fun! We did some service for her on our first visit and she had us plant some flowers in front of her ugly apartment building. The inside of her apartment is nuts! It literally looks like the fish department in Walmart. One of the rooms is full of about 20 huge fish tanks with different species of pet fish. Her front entry way has about 10 tanks full of little tiny fishies. Apparently she sells her fish to pet stores to make money. She also has a pet dog and a ferret named Benedict. She is very interested in talking to us about God and she told us that she spends at least an hour every morning discussing and debating with her husband about God while they drink tea. Who does that? She invited us to her дача (which is literally like a dog house for humans and they are usually in the woods) to talk about God. Her little dog house was actually pretty close to our apartment and the view was BEAUTIFUL! It was on a hillside and we could see all of Saratov! Such a pretty world we live in! I'm pretty sure we walked through some poisonous plants to get to her dog house, but thankfully nothing happened to us. Anyways, we taught her the Plan of Salvation and then we had a little barbeque. She cooked us some delicious meat over the fire and we ate a weird salad made out of radishes, cucumbers, and green onions. It was all so good!!! She'll get baptized soon, I know it!
On May 1st was a holiday called "Internation Hard Workers' Day." It's kind of like labor day, but it lasts for 4 days. A lot of buisness are closed because nobody is working and everyone goes to their дача's. Apparently that's also when all of the drunkies are out, so we had a lock-in on the night of May 1st. We just had to be inside by 6pm instead of 9pm. On Saturday is the Russian equivalent of the 4th of July, so we will be having another lock-in. Here, they call it "Victory Day" and I have heard that it is a mad house! Should be fun:)
Well, that's all for this week! Enjoy the spring weather and don't hang out in dog houses!
Do Svidanya!
Love,
Sister Megan Wagstaff
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