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Sweaty... That is how I would describe this week. Sweaty. It isn't even June yet and it has already been in the 90s for a majority of this week. Oh how wonderful the summer will be! The buses are such wonderful places when it is hot outside. It's always at least 20 degrees hotter in those mobile toasters. At least my skin never dries out because I'm always soaking wet:) Great weather for ice cream though!

Sister Martinez and I saw SO many miracles this week! It was truely amazing! A few days ago we had a lesson with one of our investigators who is progressing beautifully, but she doesn't want to live the Law of Chastity so she has yet to be baptized. At the end of our lesson we asked her if she knew anybody who would be interested in hearing about the gospel and she said she would ask around among her group of friends. We met with her the next day and as Sister Martinez and I were approaching the branch building, we stopped and I said, "Wait... I think there's someone with our investigator right now waiting in front of the building." Sister Martinez said, "No way! She actually brought somebody!" and then I of little faith said, "Nah. She's probably just talking to someone on the street." Dead wrong. She brought a buddy! We ended up doing a church tour with her and she loved it! When we went up to the baptismal font, our INVESTIGATOR asked her friend, "So when you do want to get baptized." What??? That never happens. We wanted to throw the question back at her, but we waited. We taught them the Restoration and asked the friend if she would be baptized and she said yes! We asked our investigator if she would as well and she said, "In the summer." Good thing summer starts in pretty much a week:) So cool! Can you imagine how strong they will be if they get baptized together as friends??? Miracles everywhere! They both showed up to church the following day and they loved it. Our investigator helped out her friend so much and Sister Martinez and I couldn't help but feel like proud little mama birds watching our baby grow up and spread the gospel. So cool!

On a less spiritual note, Sister Martinez and I went over to a member's house for family night and we were fed a weird soup with fish and potatoes in it. We're not allowed to eat fish in Russia, but if it comes from a can we can eat it because the fish usually doesn't come from Russian waters. We ate it and it was good, but the next day Sister Martinez and I woke up with some pretty nasty food poisoning. We are pretty sure it came from that sketchy soup. All is well now, but it definitely wasn't a very fun experience.

Sister Martinez and I are packing our bags and heading over to a little town called Balakova today! We will be there for a few days for exchanges and I am so excited! It's about a 3 and a half hour bus ride to get there. I am praying that there will be some sort of air conditioning on the bus, otherwise we're going to look like we ran through a rain storm when we get off. 

Do Svidanya!

Love,

Sister Megan Wagstaff