Well, this week was another long one, but not a lot of "noteworthy" things happened that I can report on. A set of Sisters from an area in Saratov called Volzhki came over on Tuesday and we got to do exchanges with them for a couple of days. I worked with a Russian Sister named Sister Mateikina on the first day and nothing super exciting happened. We met with a less active member and an active member; both lessons ended up being pretty normal. On the second day of exchanges, I worked with the other Sister in their companionship, Sister Howe, and all of our lessons ended up falling through so we did a lot of walking that day. As a whole, I had a lot of fun working with the Sisters, but I feel bad because they were probably bored out of their minds. It's alright though, Penza is a great place to be bored in.
After the Sisters left I had a meeting with the Mission Leadership Council via Skype, and then everything went back to normal from there. During MLC, I texted one of the Elders that was in the office for the meeting and told him to sneak a peek at my travel plans while he was in there. He pulled through on my request and this is what I found out about everything. I will be leaving Russia on March 8th (because of the time difference that is March 7th in America), I will fly from Samara to Moscow, Moscow to New York, New York to LA, and LA to Boise. Lots of flying. I will get to Boise around 10:20ish at night on the 8th. It's pretty weird that I will go back in time once I get to America, but it's cool, I guess. Hopefully I will get to sleep on the plane rides, because I have a feeling that I'm going to be exhausted once I get home. I'm going to be a zombie for the first few days after I get home.
This week (starting today) is going to be an adventure! Sister Warnick and I are hopping on a bus in a couple of hours and heading down to good old Saratov! We weren't planning on doing exchanges in Saratov for another couple of weeks, but the date that was scheduled for Zone Conference ended up getting moved, so alas, we leave today! We will be doing exchanges with 2 different sets of Sisters down there (2 days with each companionship), so we won't be getting back to Penza until Saturday evening. We will be in Zavodskoi (the sketchy area that was just opened to Sisters) tomorrow and Wednesday, and then we'll travel over to my favorite area, Solnechney, for exchanges on Thursday and Friday. I cannot even describe how pumped I am to go to Solnechney! I have been thinking about it all week long and I'm so giddy to just get there! Zavodskoi will be great, no doubt, but Solnechney is what I'm pining for! This week is going to be a blast!
Next week is also going to be fun. Sister Warnick and I will be in Penza on Saturday night, work all day Sunday and all day Monday, and then on Tuesday we will be taking a train to Samara for Zone Conference. Traveling, traveling, and... traveling. Good thing I am a travel junkie!
Well, sorry that this email is so short, but we have to go soon! That's all for this week folks! Do something noteworthy and get some sleep!
Do Svidanya!
Love,
Sister Megan Wagstaff
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