June 2, 2014 ~ Great Week!

This week has been really awesome!!  I really like Pushkin and my temporary companions!  We had a pretty busy week this week, did lots of service and had a few really good lessons.  We did service at the Katherine's palace library which was pretty cool we had to sort some books and but stamps in books and stuff, I enjoyed it.  Then saturday we went to a former investigator's mom's house and did some service for her.  Like getting paint off a floor, but she is a babushka so of course we did it like the most ineffective way possible haha.  Then we washed some windows.  Then she fed us lunch.  Then she asked if we could go with her to her garage and pump up her wheels on her bike.  She mislead us and said it wasn't very far, but that was not true cause we walked for ever to get there!!  we pumped up the tires which took longer than expected, but then she let me ride it a little bit:)  I was in heaven a little bit. 

We had a good meeting with jana this week and she is progressing slowly but surely.  She just is a very closed person and is hard to get her to talk, but she's really nice and there is one lady in the ward who is so awesome and is like her best friend so we are really grateful for her.

We had an interesting really special meeting last night with a member who is active is having a really hard time.  He recently got out of the hospital about 3 weeks ago where he had been for 2 months.  He had some sort of a growth on his brain that he had to have removed.  Besides that, he has recently been divorced from his once active wife and his 8 kids are really suffering because of it.  It's a really long story and it was just a really special meeting with him as we were able to just visit and encourgage and support this guy.  The spirit was really strong and I really can't describe it.  I gave him a blessing at the end and it was also a really special experience.  As we were walking out of the apartment and walking down the street with people smoking and music blaring from other apartment buildings and it was raining and cars were driving by, I was thinking about all that he had said and about our time there and realized that for me that really was like a "holy place" for me, like the church leaders have been talking about recently (I really like the talk by one on the young womens leaders in aprils conference last year (the YW conference actually - don't judge that I also read those talks, there is always stuff that can be applied to both genders) called standing in holy places or something like that).  Anyways I am really grateful for that experience.  

This week we have a lot planned and I am really excited!

Oh and I forgot to report on Bishop Causse coming!!!  It was great!!  He just talked about having a bright perspective on the future of the church here and I learned lots of cool stuff.  And also I got to see my favorite senior couple the Voorhees (Bob and Sue)!!!!  It was so great to see them, I love them so much, but I am so sad cause they are sending them home soon.  Elder Voorhees got some sort of an injury and can't really walk.  So that was really sad to say for real goodbye to them, but they live in utah so they won't be hard to find later:)

Anyway, have a good week!

Elder Robison