Today was a pretty full day. We had собрание округа [District Meeting] and then we went to Лариса's [Larissa's] where she jaked us. But we talked with her daughter Саша [Sasha]. We also watched the Simplsons. We waited a half an hour or so and then we left. We came home and dropped off our books and stuff and travelled to Stockman's to get milk. Well we came home and ate some potatoes and then rushed off to our D with Николай и Татяна [Nickolai & Tatyana]. We were in there [their] apartment and they have a lot of mystical stuff. They have all these pictures of people that were supposedly prophets or had some kind of power to heal people. It was strange.
But then we walked to the metro with Николай and Володия, and Володия talked to him a lot and just did cool. If I can say that. Then we stood in the metro, Ст. Schwartz, Володия and I and talked about Николай & Татяна for a while. Then we talked on the ride home about the gospel and sat outside the metro and talked about the Gospel some more. He's a stud and has such a firm grasp on the Gospel. He has such a testimony. I keep teasing him about getting married. He's under a lot of pressure at work and he said he was sorry for just taking over our discussion. Today I felt the Spirit a lot and it made me want to set goals to do better and stuff. One was to read the BOM [Book of Mormon] an hour a day. The other was to just study more and basically be a better person/missionary.
While we were talking about the Gospel, I just thought that one of the most important things I'll learn on a mission is to always go to Church. I'm very grateful that I always went to Church before my mission. Sometimes 6 hours a Sunday. We also talked about how we will go home and see things that are different in America than we saw.
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June 22, 1997 - Sunday
Today was so freaking busy. It's really nice to have goals you can accomplish. Like speaking your language. This last 4 days we have spoken about 49 hrs of SYLing. We had better win that award. 2 DPs had better be waiting for me.
[mid-journal chat - Remember from the MTC - SYLing is Speaking Your Language - ie. 1. Speaking in Russian to everybody who can understand Russian - that means to each other most of all because we are almost always together. 2. When you can't express yourself in Russian - you first ask in Russian if you can speak English, and then you can say it in English.
Toward the end of my mission my last companion (Elder Andrew Wright) & I SYLed for about 2 months. The only times we didn't SYL were when we were at English Class - and then we only spoke English to those in our classroom, and to the Senior Couple Missionaries that didn't understand Russian much at all. It was actually pretty fun. But sometimes a little boring. At one point Elder Andy Wright and I were speaking in a mexican accent - in Russian. We did others too - Irish, British etc. They weren't very good, except for the Mexican - the Mexican accent was AWESOME - I mean it actually sounded hispanic. Ahhh Andy - where are you?]
Well we had our [D with the] Залыгин's and the girls pretty much talked among themselves and we listened in. It was pretty cool. We also had a D with Николай и Татяна [Nickolai & Tatyana], but Володия [Volodiya] asked at the end if they had a date with babtism [there I go again mispelling things - baptism]. It was suppose to be last Saturday - yep Yesterday - well thanks for letting the investigators know about it. Well Володия scheduled it for next Sunday. We won't be able to accomplish everything this week, so I had to call them and tell them that we would have to do it через воскресение [next Sunday - literally through Sunday].
Other than that, nothing except Ст. Jurvelin wants to go on splits. Well night.
[mid-journal chat - Remember from the MTC - SYLing is Speaking Your Language - ie. 1. Speaking in Russian to everybody who can understand Russian - that means to each other most of all because we are almost always together. 2. When you can't express yourself in Russian - you first ask in Russian if you can speak English, and then you can say it in English.
Toward the end of my mission my last companion (Elder Andrew Wright) & I SYLed for about 2 months. The only times we didn't SYL were when we were at English Class - and then we only spoke English to those in our classroom, and to the Senior Couple Missionaries that didn't understand Russian much at all. It was actually pretty fun. But sometimes a little boring. At one point Elder Andy Wright and I were speaking in a mexican accent - in Russian. We did others too - Irish, British etc. They weren't very good, except for the Mexican - the Mexican accent was AWESOME - I mean it actually sounded hispanic. Ahhh Andy - where are you?]
Well we had our [D with the] Залыгин's and the girls pretty much talked among themselves and we listened in. It was pretty cool. We also had a D with Николай и Татяна [Nickolai & Tatyana], but Володия [Volodiya] asked at the end if they had a date with babtism [there I go again mispelling things - baptism]. It was suppose to be last Saturday - yep Yesterday - well thanks for letting the investigators know about it. Well Володия scheduled it for next Sunday. We won't be able to accomplish everything this week, so I had to call them and tell them that we would have to do it через воскресение [next Sunday - literally through Sunday].
Other than that, nothing except Ст. Jurvelin wants to go on splits. Well night.
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