Zdrastvuitye!
Transfers week!!! Sister Martinez and I were pretty positive that we were going to stay together for this next cycle, but that is not so. I am getting transferred to a city called Penza! It's about an 8 hour train ride away from Saratov, and a 9 hour train ride from Samara. I love Penza so much! I went there on exchanges during my second cycle in Russia and I had a blast! It is such a cute little city. My companion's name is Sister Thomas. I met her when she first came to Russia about three cycles after me and she is such a smarty! She studied at Yale and she already knew Russian before she came. I feel like she'll be helping me out with the language a lot. It'll be a fun time! My MTC companion, Sister McKell is going to be with Sister Martinez. This is the second time we've switched companions and areas and I haven't even gotten to see her in over 6 months. What a crazy life we live. I was pretty sad having to say goodbye to all of my friends in Saratov, but the Lord knows better than I do why I'm being sent to Penza.
I have a lot of stuff to pack and get ready for so this letter will be short. I have a visa trip on Thursday, and I think we are flying to Riga, Latvia again. Sometimes missionaries get to go to Ukraine or Armenia, but I think Riga has become the default now. I am so pumped for the visa trip! President Schwab told us that we're not supposed to like visa trips, but I love the atmosphere of airports and riding in airplanes, so you can't take away my joy!
Not a whole lot happened this week actually. Pretty much all of our investigators except for one fell off the face of the planet, and that one is out of town for a few weeks. We've been hitting the streets for pretty much the entire week. Not the funnest when it is over 100 degrees outside. We've spent a lot of our missionary money on ice cream, so we've had to cut that out of our budget because we're running low on money. We went contacting in the "outskirts" of our area where all of the forests and tiny houses are. We ended up following a little path that led to a bamboo field. It literally felt like I was in a dream or stuck in a computer wallpaper as we were walking through the bamboo. On the other side of the bamboo field it felt like we transported into the Shire from Lord of the Rings or something. We walked over the scariest looking bridge of my life and saw some old ladies looking over their goats that were chomping down on the bamboo plants. We went contacting next to a forest and we actually met a really nice lady who took a Book of Mormon and gave us her number. The forest was so beautiful!!! It looked exactly like something you'd see in a scary movie though. We didn't go in it, but I got eaten by mosquitoes nonetheless. Adventures!
Welp, that's all for this weeks folks! Soak in the airport atmosphere and don't go by forests without putting on bug spray.
Do Svidanya!
Love,
Sister Megan Wagstaff
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