2/10/14

Dearest Family!

 

This week was just awesome! SO many miracles happened!

For one.. WE HAVE BAPTISMAL DATE for the 22nd of FEB!

we are seriously so excited! and it was on a first lesson!We were getting to know him and just

 going over why we were meeting and such and he asked us when he could

be baptized! MIRACLE! he has been meeting with the missionaries for a year and now

he is ready! so cool! Also we called up a potential from a couple months ago that

other missionaries had contacted and we met with him and he became a new investigator!

Seriously this week has just been amazing!

So after our heat stopped working this week we called and it was sort of fixed. but the

next day our oven blew out! LIKE SPARKS! and we had no power and it was crazy.

Anyways so we were hungry and ended up cooking spaghetti in our chinek...like an

electric tea pot. so that was fun and it turned out awesome:) haha only in Russia:)

This last Sunday was awesome! The members are warming up a lot more to us and we

are able to work with them more which is such a blessing cause missionary work is

really difficult without supportive members! I also played the piano in church for basically

all meetings besides priesthood of course. That's exciting, and it's keeps me in practice!

We heard super sad news though! our ward building here in this area is going to be closed!

i guess there is a huge rat problem in the basement and so they need to close and fix it.

which creates HUGE problems cause we used the building a lot for English group and for

lessons and church of course and for activities and such. really going to be hard without it.

now everyone has to go to the stake center which is really out of the way. hopefully everything

will be good and work out smoothly.

We had hermitage service this last Saturday which is always really fun. ha ha it is really fun to

guess where people are from too. the Americans are really easy to spot out. We met two

Americans that called us out! they are members from Provo and were traveling through to the

Olympics!(lucky ducks!) anyways so they chatted with us for a bit and then got a picture with

us which was fun. so weird to have a conversation in normal English. ha ha but they were super

nice one of them served his mission in Samaria and the other in Paris. They asked for tips and

good places to go and then we told them where to go to church too. Then a couple minutes later

we met some more Mormons from Utah also traveling to the Olympics! so weird to be called out

as sister missionaries in English.

I love my mission so much! There are so many miracles EVERY DAY! i love you all and i

hope you are all doing so amazing! Time flies and i am learning to make every second,

every day count:)!

from Russia with love!

Sister Yeates