March 03/03/14

HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE! it actually has been nice and sunny but today it started to snow a little bit.

 i am so excited for the summer! Happy st. David's day on the first! Happy birthday to Anna and Dot and Tim who have birthdays this week! I love you all and wish you the best!

We have had and will have some crazy and exciting things happen! I am sure  you have all heard what has been going on world wise on the internet and such. Pretty crazy and scary but we are doing all that we can to be here and are staying safe and obedient! Keep us in your prayers! we are hoping that everything will turn out okay! right now there are restrictions with missionary work and lots of new rules almost every day 

 such which makes it hard but we know obeying all the rules will keep us safe!

It is so funny because my companion is almost fluent in English and so she prays in English and she

always prays for our worldly leaders to "have some new brains". HAHA! she is hilarious!

This next week we actually are having elder Malm coming! He is doing a mission tour and so we are excited to be able to hear and meet him.

Transfer calls came yesterday and i am staying in my area in the city and with my wonderful Russian companion!

We are having a really great time and getting a lot done:) we had another baptism this last Saturday of a little girl who is 11 and just the cutest thing! her mom and grandma are both less actives but are now coming back after meeting with the elders in our area and seeing their example and desire of their daughter who was baptized!

so cool and was just a huge testimony to me that you youth make a difference! You can be an example too! :)

The ward is really warming up to us. It's taken a lot of prayers and effort but they are getting used to us:) yay! we have made some really awesome friends. And are getting invited over and help on lessons which is sucha blessing! thank you for all of your prayers!

funny story. so this week we went over to this sister's house in our ward and she is just awesome. anyways so she knew sister k and i were vegetarian but we told her we ate fish. anyways so she prepared this huge Russian

dinner for us with this fish. AND WOW! so here they just boil the fish, and it was a big Russian one. I almost DIED!

and i have been pretty good with weird things but this was just awful. And the part she gave me still had THE HEAD

on it! AHHHHHHHHHHHH and it had teeth! The fish had teeth.....i died. I am just really grateful that it is actually a rule that

American missionaries are not allowed to eat fish unless it is from the ocean. not weird crazy polluted river fish. so i had

tons of Russian salad (cucumber tomato fresh dill), and boiled potatoes to make up for not eating the fish. so Russian ha ha.

that is about it for this week! I am loving serving in my area! Service really is the best thing and I really feel so much closer to

My Heavenly Father every time i see a miracle or help someone around me! "HAVE I DONE ANY GOOD IN THE WORLD TODAY"

do it:) it brings miracles and blessings to you and to those you serve!

LOVE YOU ALL! keep eastern Europe in your prayers! And all the people here!

From Russia With LOTS OF LOVE

sister Yeates