February 17, 2014 ~ Another Week Down!

In honor of V-day this week we had a branch party kinda thing that was pretty fun.  There were just like little activities for every group of people, including the missionaries.  We had to feed eachother yogurt.  I had to sit behind my companion and blindfolded, spoon feed him yogurt.  We had a race with the sisters and of course totally destroyed them.  It was really hilarious.  And all the other little competition things were fun too. 

Also this week the institute class started!  I am really excited about that.  We are the official translators since the teachers is the senior couple and they don't speak russian.  I am really excited about institute.  It's going to be great.  Also we had a killer english group this week!!  It was so much fun!  We have a super cool english group here.  Really everything here is the best.  There's not really anything in this area that I don't like. 

And last week on pday we went iceskating!!!  President approved it for us and we went with the branch youth.  It was awesome!  It was outside and its actually been pretty warm the past 2 weeks so the ice was not really as smooth or icy as it usually is, but it was still super fun! 

This week we are having zone conference so we are going back down to st petersburg and then right after that going up to vyborg to go on a split with our zone leaders (one of them being one of my favorite past companions) so I'm pretty excited about that.  Also I'm excited to see vyborg, cause it's kinda a big deal in history of the church in Russia.  Apparently its always one of missionary's favorite areas.  I'm excited to see what it will be like.

Also this week we were able to make contact and meet with a recent former investigator who hav\d kinda dissappeared for a while.  And her friend was there.  Hopefully we are able to move forward again with her and or her friend.  We are going back there on friday (that's when we'll be back from peter).  Also a plus, her husband is a member (interesting character) and the down side, their son is a jehovas's witness and she goes there usually too.  That's totally cool and everything, but they usually just give us the most problems and are the most argumentative.  But she's super cool, so we'll see what happens!

Have a great week!

Elder Robison