Anyways, this week has been awesome! For those of you who are good at keeping track of time, you might have already known, but it's transfer time again! This transfer has gone by so fast I can't even believe. Literally I feel like this transfer was like 2 weeks long. But thats ok, cause you know why? Because this transfer is going to be the best ever!! I am staying in Nevsky and so are both of my companions. The only difference is that there will be a 4th Elder coming into our appartment and I will break off and be his companion. Are you visualizing this ok? So my companions right now (who were companions in the MTC and are both pretty new) will stay in the appartment with us and be companions and I will be with the 4th Elder who, are you ready for this?... IS RUSSIAN!!! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! I'm so excited I get a native companion!!!! It's going to be so awesome! President told me that he really doesn't know very much English at all. Even better hahaha. This is going to be great! I get a native companion and I get to stay in the same area (I love this area) and I get to keep both of my other companions! So great. I am super excited, I thought President was never going to put me with a native... I kinda thought he was going to always keep me with the younger Elders so that I could help them with their language. Anyways, this is going to be the best transfer ever. Now we don't really have to worry about not knowing how to say stuff, we can just go right out and teach the whole city!! Wonderful.
Also so awesome this week, I got to go on an exchange with Elder Woodhead (Aunt Becky's bishop's son who was in the MTC with me). Man, is he an awesome missionary or what! I learned so much from him. I totally came back with a rededication to talking to everyone one. This transfer has been hard, having 2 really new companions who struggle to say anything and can understand somethings. Sometimes it was just painfully quiet outside and I was feeling super annoyed like I was the only one who was trying to talk to people, so eventually I slowed down as well... NOT GOOD!!! But Elder Woodhead totally got me right back on track with more energy than before and the past couple days have been so awesome!!! I've just been so happy, in the best mood ever and I love it! Basically what I need to do is figure out how to keep myself at this level and not lose that energy. I've defintely learned that a companion's energy and mood can influence the other companion for good or bad. So me and my new companion are just going to go out and get it done! It's going to be great.
But before that, tomorrow morning we have a special missionary meeting with Elder Evans, who is the Executive Director of the Missionary Department for the entire world. President Clark is so excited for this and says that this is going to be the best meeting we've ever had! I am so excited about it!! Should be amazing!
Trying to think quickly about anything else that happened this week. We worked with a lot of less actives this week. They are all so awesome, just so hard to know what they need to start being active again, but I love them all so much and they all absolutely LOVE the missionaries. It's pretty great. Being a missionary in Russia is the best!
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Robison
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