June 9, 2014 ~ Pushkin!!

Well this week was pretty good.  We hit a little bit of a stumbling block with our main progresing investigator when we talked about tithing... I think she got a little scared, but we already have another meeting set up with her for wednesday.

And Alex is doing great!! He got a calling as the gospel principles teacher!  And he taught his first lesson yesterday and it was great!!! And on wednesday he will be getting is Patriarchal blessing!!!!  We are really excited for that.  Also if you remember back to January, the guy who got baptized in Petro, I just found out that he passed his interview to become an elder and to recieve his Pat. blessing!!!  I have been informed that he is just as strong as ever and that is really great!

This week we had zone conference, the last one with President and Sister Clark. And usually there are translators there for the Russian missionaries since this is like a 6 hour conference... so we get there and I asked president who the translator was going to be (cause all week I had been promising my companion that there would be a russian translator there) and so when I asked president who it was going to be, do you know what he did.  He just stood there and pointed at me.  So guess who had to translate 6 hours of conference... yeah, I did.  Of course I asked some other missionaries to step in and help out when my brain started really hurting, but for the most part it was me.  And then to make it worse, half way through the conference President stops and just praises me to high heavens infront of everyone for my Russian.  And then do you know what he did next.  He asked everyone there "don't you all agree?"  It was so embarassing, but I was grateful that I could be useful for something haha.  

Well I should be getting my real companion this week so the adventures in Pushkin will end, but it's been really awesome!!!  I've loved it here!  And I'm excitd to get to work with my new companion!

Elder Robison