This week has been pretty awesome!! Lots of fun things have happened this week. We had a really great zone training on Saturday. The spirit was so strong there and it was really just awesome! We just talked about being happy and how the Atonement relates to missionary work. I am so grateful to be in exactly this mission!! It is for real the best mission ever (for me at least - I only add this for my fellow missionaries friends and family members out there so they don't get jealous haha;)) It was kinda funny, we have this new sister from Moscow and she said the closing prayer. In her prayer she said like "thank you that we are in one of the best missions in the world . Thank you that we are in the biggest country in the world with some of the best people in the world". It was awesome! She was talking earlier in the training (she was only baptized like year and a half ago) about the missionaries in a certain Russian mission which will remain unnamed, but you will know which one if you payed attention to detail, and how they just do all sorts of stuff that probably isn't allowed and the culture in that mission is just so lax, and how grateful she is to be in the St. Petersburg mission where we actually do missionary work. Where we have some pretty good, strick (but not at the same time) rules. This was all related to the question that was posed about the feel of the mission. Our mission is pretty unique I'm assuming in the fact that about over half of our mission is in their 4th transfer or newer. We have just had so many new missionaries come in recently and it's awesome. And we are all happy missionaries!! Basically I'm just going on about this because I am so grateful to be in this mission!! I love it so much! We really are surrounded by some of the best people ever. The Russian people are just absolutely so incredible. I love them so much!
This week also a bird pooped on my head. I know it's random, but hilarious I thought. Also I had to speak in church yesterday and apparently when I speak I am a lot more longwinded than I thought because the bishop had to give me a 1-minute warning that I needed to end soon. And the stake president and his first counselor were there. I could hear them talking about me behind me while I was speaking. Then the first counselor (an armenian man) got up and told the whole congregation how awkward it was for him to have to speak after a missionary who speaks better than he does and without an accent. Not true and it was so awkward, I just pretended not to hear it haha. Although this week I had more people than normal asking me where I am from. They almost all thought I was from the Baltic States (where they also speak Russian) and one guy said I sounded like I am from the south of Russia. I don't know why I'm going on about this, it jsut made me feel good and I'm glad to know that I can now talk to people more without them having to try and figure out what I'm saying. Glad that I am speaking understadably, because Russian is stinking hard!! Super hard language infact. But so worth it to be able to be here with these people.
Also this week I gained a testimony more of the importane of service. We had 4 less actives at church yesterday. For 2 of them, we were at their house this week helping them. We carried a couch down 9 flights of stairs them carried another couch and 3 armoirs up 8 flights of stairs. Talk about a work out haha. But it was totally worth it cause they came to church!!! Basically this week was just awesome!! I am learning so much and get to work with just the most wonderful people. I love it!
Have a great week!
Elder Robison
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