November 9, 2020

 it's the final countdown

a month left. crazy!¡ 

Maybe I can write an email every week till I'm home?? Lol we will see I guess. If not, at least one more final email will come. 👀 weird!! 

But the work isn't over yet and I have LOTS that has been happening recently. Trying to pump out all the work this last transfer. Every day on the mission (and honestly life in general) is a gift. I will never get this time back. So I want to do everything I can while I can. 

Thanks to everyone this past month for emailing me. It's been a weird time, but I find peace in knowing that Annabelle is doing the exact same work as me on the other side. Love and miss her and all of you everyday. 💛

We had transfers and I am still in Krasnodar, and will be finishing here. They closed my last area (where I was for 9 months) so there's a huge rip. Both of the areas I served in are now closed. When I found out, not gonna lie, I was super sad. I felt like a lot of the work that I had done on the mission is now for nothing, and they just ended up closing the areas anyways. But I know that's not true, and I've been able to instead start teaching and getting back in contact with some people from Rostov and Saratov since there aren't any volunteers there! So actually bonus I guess. 

BUT WHAT IS REALLY CRAZY is we now have only 3 sister companionships in the entire mission. Like how??? We already had a small number. We need to get more sisters soon! Weird weird weird weird. The mission is getting so small. Idk how this happened.  And I am the oldest one ??? Как это так??? I'm supposed to give my final training at zone conf, and then my final testimony and I'm just shook. One of the people in my cycle going home is heading home this week. So it's already started. 

Also we started using instagram. Also I'm social media specialist again..... :')

The list of questions I've received for the past two months: 

Who did you vote for? 

Who do you think is going to win? 

How do you pronounce your name? 

Everyone and their dog here (even this blond grandma that has no access to internet) asks me if I would be voting/voting for Biden or Trump. Legit every conversation I had. Doesnt matter the age, how well we know each other, etc. Every. Single. Person. 

Also no one can pronounce my name. My whole mission no one has been able to. Some lady here a few weeks ago just started calling me Сестра Камень (sister kamen) lolol. It means rock. So she just says this, and adds an s at the end. Sister kamens. And legit I've started telling people that, and now suddenly everyone can say my name and remembers it. So funny. Maybe I'll get a new name tag that says "Сестра Каменьс" lol would be so good. 

Also we got this awesome new investigator this week. We have a member in Stavorpol who is always posting her testimony and experiences in english, or reposting church videos, or things like that. And some lady saw it, Google translated it to Russian, and reached out to the member. Specifically in relation to genealogy and family history. So like referral!!! So exciting! And we taught the plan of salvation and it went SO GOOD. At the end she told us that she felt like everything we were saying sounded familiar and like she had known it. Idk it was a super cool testament to me that this gospel really is familiar to all of us. Legit so excited. 

We started teaching Anya from Rostov again several weeks ago and I just love her so much. She watched gen conf and loved it. Last week we talked about faith and this week about prayer. And after we talked about joseph Smith's first vision and his example of prayer, legit the spirit was so strong. I could feel that Joseph was truly a prophet of God, and that God loved Anya so much and wants her to return to Him. I'm really really praying so hard that she will be baptized before I go home. She has been ready for MONTHS, but her parents are against it. So idk we are just waiting for that. 

ОЙ forgot to say that we got a third companion!! My second American companion!! I hope my English gets better before I go home... She is from _____ and turns out she ran for Jordan. Someone in my district also ran for Bingham, and then someone else in my mission for Hurricane. So like..... chances are we all saw each other at the same meet. Like we talked about all going to sugar house or park city or state. So like.... lol. Weird. 

Filmed a video for this russian sign language song thing. The camera was somehow blurry the entire time? So all the footage we shot is blurry. And now we are back on quarantine. So cant go film it again. 

Ah ya  back on quarantine. About a week ago they sent a text and told us we are back to phase 0. We have to be in the apartment and doing our work from there. We are allowed each day to go out to the store, but that's it. But we can still meet with the elders in the branch to partake of the sacrament, and to hold district meeting (thank goodness because I almost died last quarantine because we didnt see anyone). 

Okok I won't drag this one on too long. Love and miss you all!! 

Сестра Каммингз 

Pics:

-ate a huge schwarma lol

-taking self timers at the airport at until midnight...lol @ delayed flights 

-sushi w the district 

-we had splits and celebrated sister keil bdayyyyyy (first splits since feb. We never see any missionaries anymore so this was so good) 

-had some local artists draw me.... why did no one tell me I look like a gorilla and a man 

-Lenin 

-denials on whatsapp 

October 19, 2020

Addition

 I typed this email out a week ago but didn't quite have time to send it. In light of recent events, I would just like to add an addition and thank so many of you for reaching out to me this past week and being so quick to offer help and words of love, wisdom, and comfort. It was not an easy week, and Annabelle will truly be missed. Life isn't easy, and losing someone who had such a great impact on you is especially not the highlight of my lifetime. But I was so blessed to know Annabelle and have her be one of my greatest friends. I will never forget her fun-loving personality and the impact she had on my life. Words can't describe how much she will be missed. Please continue to pray for her family and the other missionaries she was with, as I can only imagine what they are going through right now. 

If anyone else is struggling with death, life, sadness, or anything else, please don't hesitate to reach out! And if not to me, then to our Savior Jesus Christ. He is always there. In the darkest and saddest moments or in brightest and happiest moments, He is there. His love is perfect for us and knows no limits. Anytime, anywhere, anyplace. 

Love and miss all of you. Stay safe 💛💛

August 24, 2020

 another one bites the dust

YIKES another month flew by. Time goes so quick!! I've been in Russia over a year. Love love love this place. So grateful for everyone I've met. 

I've now been in Krasnodar for a month. But sadly have only been to this frozen yogurt place 3 times. Sorry to let you all down by not taking advantage of the first semi good ice cream place I've had here. I'll do better. ;)

But Krasnodar is so far so good. It's super weird because somehow I haven't met any of the members here in person. Its super hard remembering names and details about a person when you meet with lots of them a day, in the same situation. Me and my companion had to sit down one day for like 3 hours so I could write down everyone I "knew" and all the info and things about them so I could keep track of who we were talking to and about what. (Now you might say.... that is what area books are for.... why are you not using those?? Ya lol that's illegal. Dont have any sort of tracking records or anything like that. Our branch list is a few years old, incomplete and without any phone numbers. But still!! Somehow the work gets done) 

Almost died this week. I found a HIIT workout, and there was like the modified version and the hard version and I was like hahahhaha no way I'm doing modified 😤💪 but lol @rookie me who basically has the muscles of a slug now. Should've done the modified. Safe to say I crawled around our apartment throwing up for the next 30 minutes or so after the workout lolol 

Our mission president told us this week that we are very lucky to serve in russia because in russian there are 33 letters. And in English there are only 26. Which means that we can have 7 more backup plans. 

We had an investigator (Larissa) get baptized a few weeks ago, and on one of the lessons after baptism, her friend who had referred her said, "I'm so grateful that FINALLY she made a right decision in her life" 

Also about Larissa- sister клевакана and Дмитриева were teaching her along with some elders in the Moscow mission via technology (long story). Then I came to Krasnodar. Was on a lesson or two with her, watched her baptism. And now participate in a lot of the post-baptism lessons with her. 

One of the members of the church in Sochi (a single woman) told us a little fun story about how her Sunday had gone the week before. Арминэ looked at the clock and saw it was 11. Realized it was time for the sacrament. Got the bread and water. Blessed it. Partook. Me and Sister Дмитриева had to explain to her that since we didnt hold the priesthood, we couldn't bless the sacrament. I dont really know how we are 5 months+ into home church, and we didnt know she was blessing the sacrament herself, but I guess it happens. And then we told the Rostov sisters (my old area) and they told us that on one of the lessons this week with one of my old investigators, he had told them that he had blessed and partook of the sacrament as well. So lots of good lessons about the priesthood going on here!! 

This random super loud fire alarm thing went off in the corridor at like 1 pm and we were like ?? So we went down the 17 flights of stairs to ask the front desk lady what is going on, and she just said they're doing maintenance on the elevator. So lol @us. Couldn't use the elevator to come back up. So walked back up those 17 flights. Some flashbacks to having to do that in Rostov very often. 

We went to this super cool park called Парк Галицкого. Super cool water fountains. Since we arent allowed to use public transport, we had to take a car. The senior couple's son's family came to visit them. So on a pday we all hopped in and spent the day there. So fun. His family was sooo cute and it made me miss mine lots lol 

This week we decided to deliver cookies to all the members within walking distance. We delivered about 1/2 of them so far. And wow legit its SO far to walk. Send your prayers my way as we finish up this week lol. 

A while ago, there was this ysa conference here. Usually all the ysa gather in one city and do it, but because of corona, they held it online. And they asked a few of the volunteers to translate. So I translated this game, a pioneer story thing, and then not only once, but TWO times I translated the seminar of a lifetime. 10 Secrets on How to Get the Attention of the Opposite Gender. So the girls and boys were separated into two different places. And I translated the 10 secrets for the girls. And woowowowoowowow she had lots of advice. Super weird being a missionary and thinking of all that stuff. Several times she gave really... interesting... advice, and me and my comp had to mute the translating microphone and laugh. Also threw in a little bit of my own advice in there when I didnt pay attention because I was laughing.... lol but no it was super fun. Learned some new words I guess. Just know, that if a girl gives you a compliment, it's more than just a compliment I guess ;)

I gave another training this past week. We decided not to have zone conferences anymore, only mission conferences because our mission is getting so small. And like I had planned it in English, but jokes on me suddenly there I was and gave it in Russian. If you know me, you know that I speak fast in English. Turns out, russian is the same thing. And then even faster when I'm nervous. I've been told by several grandmas to slow down. Which sometimes actually hurts my case, because I dont think about what I'm saying, and then I say it wrong. :( ANYWAYS. But it's all good. I think I got the point across in my training lol. Hopefully we can all manage our time better in the mission now! 

Also this same conference, me and sister Дмитриева decided to buy tons of yummy chocolate so we can snack while we sit in the conf. Turns out the conference was like SEVEN HOURS and wow I ate so much and had a HUGE headache afterwords. I haven't eaten anything sweet or chocolatey since... 

Okok I'll probably finish this off with a bunch of pictures. Self timers that never turned out right. Pictures from the park. People not answering our calls. Cookies we delivered. 

God is real. He know us. He know our needs. Line upon line. Here a little, there a little. Some days are great, some days are not. Just learn to live with it and enjoy both parts. If we didnt know the bad, we wouldn't know the good. 

July 20, 2020

 downtown

ok it's to the point where I can put the months I have left onto one hand. :/// weird I guess? 

BUT НЕЧЕГО,  я больше не буду говорить об этом;) 

so like it's been a few interesting weeks in a row, but all is cool. First things first (besides being a realist), I got a SUPRISE TRANSFER to Krasnodar. Kdar is famous in my mission for being the "area of dreams" and the "best branch in the mission" so like... I'll let y'all know. 

But it was SO sad I had to say goodbye to Sister Keil. I've been serving w her since the very start of quarantine, and wow already miss her so much. She has to take over the Rostov area, and she has barely seen any of the city, and has only met members online. So like mvp and good luck to her. She's a gem. I now have like 100 more reasons to go to Germany. Everyone I meet is from there, so omw! after the mission! 

My new companion is Sister Дмитриева (Dmitrieva). She is so good!! We have only been together like 3 days but already it's been the best 3 days. She is from St. Petersburg (and like fun fact I guess... knew my brother when he served there.... so like dont know if that is awkward, cool, interesting, idk but ya the world is small) 

SO I will write a little about my last few weeks in Rostov. My first few days in kdar. 

•everyone here names their cat "trash" it's like a normal name here (of course in Russian it is мусор "mooser") 

•they have a red mango (frozen yogurt place) here in kdar??? Ya hello city of dreams is already looking GREAT 

•mission area: from the ocean by california to the eastern boarder of utah, extended to the north and south borders of the US. that is how big my mission is. And now we only have 9 more sisters here so rip 

•GOT TO SEE SISTER ИЗМАЛКОВА AGAIN with SISTER MACMILLIAN so like basically this was the best day of my life. First sisters we had seen in like 4+ months!!!!!!! (Also then got to see sister клевакана again so cool) 

•Spent pretty much an entire sunday at President's house and with his family. Love them sooooo much legit best family ever. That's probably one of the things I will miss most about Rostov is serving around them  

•Got special permission from the president to help a family move. So funny because here in russia, they HATE it when girls lift heavy things. So when we got there to help them move, the elevator had broken (no surprise rip rip) but they told us that we should stay in and pack the apartment and the men would take the boxes. But in a short matter of time, the grown men were packing the boxes and me and Sister Keil were hauling those heavy boxes up and down 5 flights of stairs. Loved it lol. Great day for reals. 

•hahahahaha there was a toilet sitting outside our apartment building, so you already KNOW that me and sister keil ran out of the apartment to have a photo shoot with it 

• ANYA SIGNED UP FOR THE YSA CONFERENCE HERE which is a MIRACLE because she hasn't been to church yet, or institute, or anything, but has been an investigator since Jan. And like this conference is online, and we are having not a lot of ysa signing up for it because they don't want to do a conference online. BUT ANYA (basically my fav person in rostov) signed up for it and hopefully she goes. Love thatttttttttt

•had a week of only eating buckwheat (gretchka/гречка) so like that was...... something 

•participated in my fourth (maybe third tbh don't remember it was so long ago) branch council since I've been in russia!!! Kdar again pulling through 

•had a mission devotional with steven harper! so cool!!! He was my professor of foundation's of the restoration @byu and we arranged to have him come speak in our mission and legit it was awesome!!! learned so much again. 10/10 would recommend . Also james Curran (james the mormon) spoke at one of our devotionals. He has a super cool story too!! Lots of notes from both and lots of things to do now! :)

Love this place love russia love being here. Not gonna like, it is ROUGH being in quarantine/isolation all day every day and doing all these meetings online and things like this. 100% not what I expected when I came on a mission. And to be honest, don't know how much of a desire I would have had to come on a mission if I knew this was how it was going to be. But the work presses forward. Every time I think about how I was "gyped" of good times on the mission and things like this I think of this one quote I heard in the MTC, "your mission won't be the best two years (1.5 in my case lol) OF your life. If they are, you didn't experience life to the fullest. But they will be the best two years (1.5) FOR your life. 

And even right now, I am still learning lots of lessons and how to endure being inside all day. Honestly already loved the outdoors. But like now I'm never taking it for granted again. What a gem of a place. I was writing a friend this week and thought about how this wonderful earth is such a testament that God lives, and that He loves us. He created this just for us and gave us the opportunity to experience it. In Alma 30, Alma tells Korihor that he has "all things" as a testimony. And this earth is one of those things. It proves to me every day that God is real and that He loves us. So hopefully you take advantage of that gift and use it to the max in place of a volunteer stuck in Russian quarantine ;) 

Love you and miss you all!!

Сестра Каммингз 

-red mango YUM

-last day with sister keil rip 

-cool rostov ~thing~ by the harbor 

-me, sisters keil, дм, кл

-awkward family photos w sisters mac+из

- the toilets

-the usual people not answering us pics 

June 22, 2020

к + к is so cool

Two emails two weeks in a row!! So good.

Все по-старому here in the life. I had several neat moments this week, and killer personal study. Learned A LOT of things that I found were super interesting. I've been studying the bible a lot more recently, and have found some GEMS wow oh wow. I've read the bible before, but I guess I must have skimmed over everything good. 

One chapter that I read this week was Exodus 18. And wow ok its not a huge crazy thing, it is just where Jethro and Moses are setting up the system for the Israelites. But I learned so much. I learned so much of what I should be teaching the members here and how I can be helping the work progress forward. Moses was solving all the Israelites problems and being the common judge for everyone. But then his father-in-law comes and tells him that he doesn't have to do it all alone. 

He needs to 1) teach them correct values so they can govern themselves: "And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do." 

And that really hit home with me. I cant solve every problem here. I am here to help teach correct principles so they can govern themselves. Show them the way to walk, and the work they must do. The same is going for the role of the prophet. He isnt here to solve each and every one of our problems. He is here to teach us the right ways, to answer questions for ourselves, to "Hear Him", and to push along the path. 

And 2) call people to help ease his burden: "Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 

And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee."

That one was a little difficult for me to read. If you know me, you know that I like to do everything myself and am not super keen on recieving outside help. Especially here on the mission I have started sooo many "projects", and tried to single handedly make them all run well. And whenever one project wasn't doing well, I felt like a complete failure because I had put so much effort and time into my projects and they weren't working. And then about two weeks ago my mission president kind of roasted me in front of the whole zone and told me that it could be because I'm trying to do it on my own and not getting help from the members and reaching out to other people to help. Lol rip. And that made me even more upset because I wanted to do it on my own. And knowing that I couldn't do it on my own made me feel even more like a failure. SO, I was thinking about this a lot. And then I read this chapter. And just realized that it is fine to have other people help me. Letting my companion help, other missionaries, branch leaders, etc. They can help bear my burden with me. 

In verse 18 it says "The thing that thou doest is not good." And wow I was like.... okok got it. Not good. So now I'm trying to let other people help out and am realizing that there are other capable people out there. And guess what!! My projects are a lot more successful with other people helping out! Suprise suprise! 

Also thought this story was super interesting. Because Moses is a very capable man. Parted the Red Sea. Provided Manna from heaven. Water from a rock. Delivered the Israelites from the Egyptians. Talked to God. Like he is a true prophet of God. BUT in this instance, he had to receive counsel from someone else to know how to govern the Israelites better. It was his father-in-law. God wasn't telling Moses what to do. Rather, he had prepared Jethro and helped him know how to help Moses. Sometimes God isn't giving us all the answers directly, because he already gave them to someone else. We need to be counseling with other people to be getting these answers and solutions in our life. 

SUPER interesting chapter. Hope you all read it. 

Ok but some highlights from this week:  👀

•one of our 40 year old investigators did a lesson with us without his shirt on, and then about 1/2 way through he excused himself for like a minute and then came back with a little tank top on.... lol love russia

•made kabsa with our mission and WOW so yummy loved it 

•I was featured in the russian liahona, so I guess you can say I'm a local 🤧💁‍♀️

•hahah so guess for like 2 weeks every year they turn off the hot water in the city. So ya. Showers have been gr8 for the past while :)))

•Facebook lends it's way to lots of interesting people... many an intersting conversation 

•got "transfer calls" hahah ya we are staying together. So us everyone else in our mission. Lol. But love it though. 

Сестра Каммингз 

June 15, 2020

kinda like new year-new me, but new transfer-new me

Lol jk gotcha. Still the same old same old. Still in quarantine.

BUT there was a great surprise :))))) guess who can go out of the house EVERYDAY to buy groceries now?!?!!

For the past 3 months, we have only been allowed out once a week to only buy groceries then return home. But now our mission president said we can go buy groceries every day in order to get out of the house :)) one day milk, the next day eggs, the next day huge gymnastic balls ;) We still arent allowed on the streets without a purpose (tbh dont know why. every other person here in rostov keeps telling us quarantine is over and is already on the streets. but not for our mission I guess :)))

Every day I hope I finally get the call I can go running again , or talk a walk through the "park" here or something like this. Mom I'm pretty sure my adhd is off the charts here in quarantine lol.   

This past week was good. Lots and lots and lots of meeting people and facebook finding (also who knew it, but there are so many memes on the facebook world and wow so tempting miss that lol) and trying to keep busy. There is so much to do, and we don't quite have time for it all. Just keep going. 

All of our investigators right now are at a standstill. So we are trying new things and praying about what they need and how we can help them continue along the covenant path. Any ideas-- lmk. Trying to fulfill that missionary purpose out here of course still. ;) 

Аня (anya)- She is awesome!!! She is always so accepting and ready for whatever we teach her. We extended the baptismal invitation about 2 months ago. She told us she would be baptized with joy, but her parents are against it, and probably don't want her leaving the Russian Orthodox Church. So we have been praying and fasting with her to soften their hearts. But last week she told us she talked to them, and they said they dont approve and she won't be able to get baptized. So now me and Sister Keil are praying to figure out the next step and help her recognize how importance repentance, baptism, and the gift of the holy ghost are. 

Даря (daria)- She is an awesome mom and is trying to push through mental repercussions of quitting smoking. She is very faithful as well and is always reading and praying and striving to live every commandment we have taught her. She attends institute, and every church meeting and activity. We extended the baptismal invitation as well about 2 months ago, and she told us she wants to get baptized, but doesnt see it happening at least until september. So we are slowly trying to work with her as well. 

Илья (Iliya)- He is super fun! He always has amazing questions and thinks very hard about what he read. A lot of his questions aren't your "normal every day" questions. Me and sister keil often have to search for answers with him. We are trying to use the scriptures when we answer his questions, but sometimes we tell Илья that he just has to trust in God sometimes because we don't know all of his plan. He goes to church every week at his uncle's house. We asked him how he felt about baptism if he were to continue on this path, and he said he doesnt see why not. However he doesnt believe in the book of mormon. So we are trying to help him have a testimony and faith he is acting on before he gets to that step. So this past week (thank goodness we had a member there!!!) we talked about how important it is to find out truth for yourself. And the importance of the holy ghost. We have talked several times already about personal revelation and receiving answers, but this time was really good. I think he finally understood that if he wants an answer, he needs to read and pray every day, every day, every day. And ask with a sincere heart. And listen for an answer. 

Олег (Oleg)- He has a wife and kids. Super great guy. He actually brought himself to church. The elders got his number. Never contacted him. He came to church again, me and Sister Fender got his number, gave it to the elders. They still never contacted him, and then about a month later quarantine happened and the elders got sent home. So. Then he reached out to a member here, and she reached out to the branch president, who then reached out to us. So we said, ok looks like we are teaching this guy now. It took about a month to finally schedule a lesson with him (he is very busy) and had a great lesson on the restoration with him. Sent him a book of mormon. Now we are just waiting for our next lesson :)) but that was like 2 or 3 weeks ago, so we are hoping soon to finally get another one scheduled.  

Маша- She is the funniest and craziest little girl ever!! We have been teaching her for a while. She is afraid of the water and doesnt want to get baptized. If it didnt involve getting in the water, she would be fine with it. We are calling her sometimes during the week and playing a game with her or something like that, but we haven't had an actual lesson with her since quarantine started. Most of the time she doesnt listen and cant sit still that long while on the phone. 

Anyways that's about it for our investigators right now. Hopefully we can get them moving along. Slow and steady wins the race I guess. We of course are also trying to work with less actives as well. That's a whole different email lol. But we are also trying to figure out the ministering in the central branch. Pretty much no one knows who has who, but it is probably because the leadership positions have been changed so often within the past year. So me and my comp are making sure that this is getting done, and people know who to help minister to. 

Twice a week, we have a get together with the youth to do a lesson on Come Follow Me. I thought it would be a good idea and great way to keep the youth connected still while on quarantine, and would be good. We have been doing it since about the end of March. I talked to the district president, central and taganrog branch presidents, and a lot of the parents of the youth to help increase participation, but the turnout is still pretty much the same for Come Follow Me. I asked all the missionaries in our zone to follow up with their branch presidents and maybe the parents of youth in their branch, but I dont know if any of them have actually done it. I talked to our district a few weeks ago if we should cancel it because only 1-5 youth show up every time (average being about 3), but they said they want to keep doing it. So I dont know. I want to keep doing it, and of course helping one person is worth it. But I'm not sure if it's even helping one person. Lol.

Also transfers are coming up (whether that is in 4 days or 4 months, I dont know haha) but I LOVE Rostov. I know I have already been here 8 months, but I'm fine staying longer. Like I really would be fine being here for a long time. I have so much I need to do here still. Of course it would be nice if there were mountains around here or something like that, but other than that everything is fine. ;) 

THE LORD IS WORKING. There are people prepared everywhere. It is our job to change our attitude and get to work. Every member a missionary. We watched this devotional this week, and it talks about how sometimes when you're gaining a testimony it is less about feeling all these things. But it is taking what you have felt, and acting on it. And while you are acting, then the Lord can start to use you and build your testimony even stronger. I think it is so true. An airplane cant take off until you've brought it onto the runway and already started driving super fast (maybe there is a technical term for that but tbh dont know lol). Same with the Lord. He can't help you take off until you've already got to the ru way and started trekking your way forward. 

Сестра Каммингз 

Ps. Sorry if there are typos in this. Typing on a phone is very hard. Lol.....

Pictures- 

People on WhatsApp not answering our calls. It ends always with the last face you made and freezes. So the key is to get the timing just right. 

An elder in our district is suddenly twins with Brad Wilcox 

The outside:')

Hahahah traveled in the rain and got SOAKED after only like 2 seconds 

Spotted the MTC comp 👀

The elders showing us their hats they've collected 

Videos:

Trying some cold soup called akroshka. I had it once, yummy. Then we made it with the mission and with kvass. Nope. Never again. 

One of the trips to the store this week, we bought huge gymnastic/sport balls to sit on during our lessons. 10/10 decision of course