Hello all, I think I'll just email a different day every week to keep you guessing haha. This week (and last week) has been crazy! But awesome!!
First of all, we got a new investigator!!! He is so cool!! He's 20 yrs old and is studying here and is so awesome! He's met with the missionaries a lot before so we were able to just get right down to it. It was a great lesson (by the end it was hahha, the middle was rough) and we should be meeting again on monday (he's super busy with work trying to earn enough money to pay for this semester of school so can't meet super often until Nov). I'm really excited about that!
Also this week on monday I sent my companion off to Ukraine. One of the Elder's here (from Ukraine) had a visa trip so my companion went to go be his companion. So I got to work with his companion who he is still training and he is so cool! He is another veteran of Brother Kylikovskyi's class at the MTC! It was so much fun! We talked to some really awesome people who hopefully might be interested. So needless to say, weren't able to make it to internet monday. Then tuesday we had to go to the Hermitage which was fun cause 2 new girls from BELGIUM started working there with us. It's always fun when there are more volunteers there than just us - usually they are, but all go in the afternoon and we have a morning shift so never see any of them. THen we had to go to district meeting and right after that we went to the metro and met with the zone leaders and I went back up to sestroretsk to go on a split with them. That was fun! I love going on exchanges, they always shake things up a little bit and make things more interesting. So today was the first chance that we had to get to email.
AND we got to watch conference!!! I loved it so much!! Even all the random 70's talks I got something out of. Actually Elder Dube was one of my favorite talks. I loved the story that he told at the beginning about his mother. Great talk! And I loved Elder Oaks and Elder Cook (usually I'm not such a huge fan of his). Such awesome talks!! Also P. Uchtdorf in the Priesthood session and P. Monson's. Acutally I think if I were to keep going any further I would end up mentioning every single talk... WAIT I can't believe I almost forgot about Elder Bednar!!! He is a rock star, I loved it!!! Actually in all honesty I did get more out of his talk that most others (which is funny cause I have nothing to pay tithing on right now haha (at least that I know of). I just really loved the idea of small and seeming insignificant and unexpected blessings. I have never seen that more than I have here. It really is so true.
I thought it was interesting how many speakers talked about a few very common topics: the role of women (and men), covenants (I loved that sister's talk about the endowment), abortion, priesthood, and enduring to the end - basically the importance and structure of the family! I loved that I felt like all the speakers were very bold in their statements (something that we are encouraged to do a lot as missionaries) and just really defined right and wrong very clearly. I loved it. Everything. Unfortunately I don't have my notebook with me or I could keep going on forever haha. I cannot wait to get the liahonas and re-read them all!! And you should all do the same thing... I promise you'll learn something new!
Talk to you in about 4 days again (maybe) hahah.
Elder Robison
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