February 22, 1997 - Saturday

I'm on splits for the night with Ст. Russell.  He's an OK guy.  He was baptized about 2 years ago and he is already on a mission.  That's pretty cool.  I went and watched "The Nutcracker" at the Kremlin Theatre.  It was pretty cool.  It only cost 7 dollars and back home it would have cost about $93 more.  I kind of had a bad mood earlier today because I had to go on splits and I really didn't want to.  Also I've felt not worthy.  So I had to pray to lift my bad mood.  It worked.  But it took until now. Bye

February 8, 1997 - Saturday

Well ladies & gentlemen it is 3 days from departure for my trainer.  We were with them today and yesterday.  Just a little each day.  Now I'm on a split with Ст. Hughes because I'm going to a play called "The Ideal Husband."  It should be interesting.  This last week since I wrote last we haven't done squat.  P-Day we wrote letters and shopped a little.  Bought a heater so the apartment has been nice & toasty.  Thursday & Friday I don't remember what I did, but it wasn't proselyting.

Last night we went over to Barnes' & then to Larsen & Larson's.  I lost in chess, to Paige & then to Woolverton.  Tuesday night we watched "Money Train."  It was pretty cool. 

Today, Saturday, Reenik Day, I bought 22 cds.  No Doubt, Spin Doctors, R.E.M., too [or two if you're not mixed up about English] really cool alternative discs, the Who, Bon Jovi, Joan Osborne, Cranberries, the list goes on & on.  It's amazing.  The new Hootie Album that I didn't even have back home.  I bought Madonna's Immaculate Collection, I really don't remember the rest. 

I saw this cd I really want called Smash Hits and I asked how much, but the guy that ran that part of the tent wasn't there so he didn't know how much.  That sucks.  That is my favorite.  It has all these cool songs on there like "Turn the Beat Around."  I also saw a greatest hits of her, Gloria Estefan.  But I didn't buy it because it didn't have that on there.  Well we are about to go to the play, so I'll talk to you later, bye.

Okay back from the play.  It was pretty.....weird.  It had some funny parts in it and stuff, but we couldn't follow it because we didn't understand everything.  It was from Britian originally.  You could tell with all of the cop uniforms and stuff.  The stuff would be the British sexual humor like Benny Hill.  We decided to leave at 10pm if the play didn't end because we still had to make some stew and eat.  Well it got close and the finale came.  You could tell that the play was about to end.

The stew took until 11:40pm and now I'm writing in my journal so it can cool down.  The stew is dang good though it's like so chock full of everything.  It's amazing.  We, Hughes helped, made some pretty dang good stuff.

December 20, 1996 - Friday

Went to another Hockey Game last night.  Elder King and I were out walking around and these two girls started talking with us and asked us to go outside with them.  They were pretty good looking.  I didn't catch what they were saying until after we left.  But it was funny.  I'm still having my problem.  night.

[Post Journal Chat - So the great thing about this Hockey Game was that it was between Canada & Russia.  It was also celebrating 50 years of Russian hockey.  We went down as far as we could get before the game started and yelled things to the Canucks warming up.  Elder Sefcik is from Canada, but his mom is from Utah - so he has dual-citizenship.  There was a couple of other Canadians in the mission over the years, but none were as cool as Sefcik.  His name actually comes from somewhere slavik.  It was Sevchic, and so that's how they spelled it on his namebadge.  Unlike me - where they wouldn't put in two rs in Herrick, Xeppuk.]

December 12, 1996 - Thursday

Okay what's up G?  Today I slept in until like 11:00am and we didn't get out of the apartment until about 2:30pm or so.  Tomorrow I promise myself that I will get up by 6:30alm.  I promise.  I also will be good. 

We had a D with a Korean girl who spoke English.  I went off on something about Joseph Smith and it went bad, but the D was pretty good.  She was really apprehensive about the whole thing.  I'm tired of not feeling the Spirit [like in the MTC].  Night.

Oh yeah we went to another Hockey Game on the 10th and then the 11th, Wednesday, we played GatorBall.  I am so tired and sore.  Then we went out to eat at Santa Fe.  Good food but expensive.  Ст. Kirkwood was going to Воронеж (Voronezh) that night and so it was kind of a good-bye party.  Night.

[Post Journal Chat - Again for Culture Night we went to a Hockey Game.  ЦСКА [Tsey Ess Kah] played Братислава (Словакия) [Bratislava (Slovakia).  I really don't remember who won, but it was very fun to watch.]

November 23, 1996 - Saturday

Well last night we went to a hockey game [for Culture Night].  It was pretty cool.  Then we went over to some house and a rich guy named (?) I can't remember, but he bought about 8 pizzas and we all ate it.  Then we performed skits.  It was fun.  There is a picnic today but we slept in and we are gong to miss it.  We didn't get in until about 12:30 am. 

Well I haven't had to give a talk yet in church, but I better be prepared for Sunday.  I'll write to you after we go tracting and stuff.