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.
Showing posts with label Elder Barnes. Show all posts
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1/9/11
January 6, 1996 - Monday
[WARNING - This post contains a rash to certain bodily parts...So Read at your Own Risk!!!
Whew doggy. I'm kind of tired. Well that's because we didn't get to sleep last night until this morning at around 7am. We got up around 2:30pm, took showers, ate and then went over to the Huish's. They are cool people. They are a couple and Elder Huish is Doctor Huish [the Mission Dr.]. My companion has been pretty sick lately and not feeling well. So we went over there to have him checked out. Ст. Ashton was comps with Ст. Moyle who flew home today so he's without a companion and has been hanging with us.
So we get over there and Sister Huish invited us to eat and she whipped up a pretty tasty dinner - just like that. [It was like 2 minutes...without a microwave & it had corn in it] It was a tuna casserole thing with some salad - real lettuce etc.
I talked to Elder Huish about this rash that I had in my crotch. It was after gatorball [see gatorball explanation below] and it sucked. My crotch just sweats a lot and it rubs the way way and if I wear "Long Johns" it develops into a rash. So he gave me this cream for it. We will see. well, night!
[Gatorball!!! - is forever my favorite sport to play. Gatorball is a cross between football and soccer - played with a soccer ball. If someone kicks the ball to you and you catch it, then you can continue to carry it and run with it. You can pass it to someone else as long as they catch it and are not two hand tagged. If someone does tag you, then you have to drop it and dribble with your feet like in soccer.
You can score 3 ways...1) Throw it in for 1 point, 2) Kick it in for 2 points, or 3) Head it in for 3 points. On our P-Days we played hard. We tried to keep from hurting anyone, but sometimes it happened.]
Whew doggy. I'm kind of tired. Well that's because we didn't get to sleep last night until this morning at around 7am. We got up around 2:30pm, took showers, ate and then went over to the Huish's. They are cool people. They are a couple and Elder Huish is Doctor Huish [the Mission Dr.]. My companion has been pretty sick lately and not feeling well. So we went over there to have him checked out. Ст. Ashton was comps with Ст. Moyle who flew home today so he's without a companion and has been hanging with us.
So we get over there and Sister Huish invited us to eat and she whipped up a pretty tasty dinner - just like that. [It was like 2 minutes...without a microwave & it had corn in it] It was a tuna casserole thing with some salad - real lettuce etc.
I talked to Elder Huish about this rash that I had in my crotch. It was after gatorball [see gatorball explanation below] and it sucked. My crotch just sweats a lot and it rubs the way way and if I wear "Long Johns" it develops into a rash. So he gave me this cream for it. We will see. well, night!
[Gatorball!!! - is forever my favorite sport to play. Gatorball is a cross between football and soccer - played with a soccer ball. If someone kicks the ball to you and you catch it, then you can continue to carry it and run with it. You can pass it to someone else as long as they catch it and are not two hand tagged. If someone does tag you, then you have to drop it and dribble with your feet like in soccer.
You can score 3 ways...1) Throw it in for 1 point, 2) Kick it in for 2 points, or 3) Head it in for 3 points. On our P-Days we played hard. We tried to keep from hurting anyone, but sometimes it happened.]
1/7/11
January 5, 1997 - Sunday
Today is a "working" day for the Russians because they got off for New Years Day. So Church isn't until 7pm. We are having a big dinner tonight because Ст. Moyle is flying out tomorrow. Ст. Barnes is going to the Petrovsky Branch today. We've been lazing around all day. It's about 4:15pm and we just played a tie breaker chess match today.
I suck, last night I kept running chess through my mind. I was dog tired, because I'm sick, but I couldn't get to sleep. I had my problem and finally got to sleep. I can't tell if Satan is putting these little things in the way of my sleep or if I am just making excuses so I can sin. Either way I'm a punk.
I just don't feel like doing anything. I don't even want to read, write or do arithmetic. I'm silly I tell ya. I wonder what Gilbert is up to? I have a feeling that he is working a lot harder than I am over there in the land of baptisms. I don't know if I will work any harder in my next companionship or not. It all comes down to the fact that I like to sin. I like to take it easy. I have been. I haven't been studying hardly at all this whole companionship. I'm incredibly stupid.
Today though, I made some flashcards or whatever you want to call them. So I'll study a little on the metros. I need to cut out playing chess, reading newspapers or a lot of books and sleeping in and of course my problem, and I'll do a lot better. Then I need to do things like study regularly, not give in to borderline wrong things and clean up a lot more.
[Post Journal Chat - Looking back on this post I can see that I'm being extremely hard on myself, was depressed and homesick. I'm not trying to blame Ст. Barnes, but it's hard when you come in all charged up and ready to go, and the first two months have these kind of stuff in it.
I remember the first morning when I woke up at 6:30am and wondered when my comp was going to get up. At 6:45, or maybe closer to 7am I went and woke him up. "Hey Ст. Barnes time to get up" and I turned the light on, and then went back into the living room. He might have turned it off, or just slept through it. He didn't get up until 8 or 9.
A couple of morning like that and you stop trying to wake your senior comp at 6:30am. Then you, yourself, stop getting up on time. It's easy to see how it all snowballs huh? - well bye]
I suck, last night I kept running chess through my mind. I was dog tired, because I'm sick, but I couldn't get to sleep. I had my problem and finally got to sleep. I can't tell if Satan is putting these little things in the way of my sleep or if I am just making excuses so I can sin. Either way I'm a punk.
I just don't feel like doing anything. I don't even want to read, write or do arithmetic. I'm silly I tell ya. I wonder what Gilbert is up to? I have a feeling that he is working a lot harder than I am over there in the land of baptisms. I don't know if I will work any harder in my next companionship or not. It all comes down to the fact that I like to sin. I like to take it easy. I have been. I haven't been studying hardly at all this whole companionship. I'm incredibly stupid.
Today though, I made some flashcards or whatever you want to call them. So I'll study a little on the metros. I need to cut out playing chess, reading newspapers or a lot of books and sleeping in and of course my problem, and I'll do a lot better. Then I need to do things like study regularly, not give in to borderline wrong things and clean up a lot more.
[Post Journal Chat - Looking back on this post I can see that I'm being extremely hard on myself, was depressed and homesick. I'm not trying to blame Ст. Barnes, but it's hard when you come in all charged up and ready to go, and the first two months have these kind of stuff in it.
I remember the first morning when I woke up at 6:30am and wondered when my comp was going to get up. At 6:45, or maybe closer to 7am I went and woke him up. "Hey Ст. Barnes time to get up" and I turned the light on, and then went back into the living room. He might have turned it off, or just slept through it. He didn't get up until 8 or 9.
A couple of morning like that and you stop trying to wake your senior comp at 6:30am. Then you, yourself, stop getting up on time. It's easy to see how it all snowballs huh? - well bye]
12/21/10
December 9, 1996 - Monday
Tonight we had FHE or Семый вечер [Syemy Vecher - Family Night - by the way I misspelled Семеный - Semyeny]. It was pretty cool. We met at Тёрви Стан [I couldn't read my handwriting and so I don't exactly know what metro station that I was talking about] and went over to Паведьский Дом and ate a little then played a game where you say a name and a person standing in the circle tries to hit that person (who's name was called) on the head before they call out someone else's. Then it goes from person to person. It was pretty fun. [We used a long newspaper rolled up in a cone].
It was Ст. Stevenson's last one in the branch. Ст. Barnes and Larsen don't like him. Most people don't , but I do. Oh well - night.
It was Ст. Stevenson's last one in the branch. Ст. Barnes and Larsen don't like him. Most people don't , but I do. Oh well - night.
12/6/10
December 2, 1996 - Monday
Yesterday was Elder Barnes' birthday. After church we went out to eat at "American Bar & Grill." I had the Spirit up until then. Yesterday was Sunday by the way. I had my problem as well. I hate myself, but I'll do better.
[Post Journal Chat - Junior companions have to follow where their Seniors lead. I wasn't really happy about going to the restaurant on Sunday, but I did eat when we were there. It was the first American food I'd had in 2 weeks, and it was GOOD. I can still remember what I ate. It was a Mushroom Swiss Burger with a Dr. Pepper. One irritating thing about Russian restaurants. They do NOT give you free refills. Not even one. It was a good thing that I had plenty of extra money still.]
[Post Journal Chat - Junior companions have to follow where their Seniors lead. I wasn't really happy about going to the restaurant on Sunday, but I did eat when we were there. It was the first American food I'd had in 2 weeks, and it was GOOD. I can still remember what I ate. It was a Mushroom Swiss Burger with a Dr. Pepper. One irritating thing about Russian restaurants. They do NOT give you free refills. Not even one. It was a good thing that I had plenty of extra money still.]
11/16/10
11-15-96? 11-15-96? 11-15-96? - Friday
I'm weird I know it. Well another day. I have a big headache but hopefully it will go away. I'll write you later and tell you what I did today.
It's 9:51pm. Today we didn't do much. But it was really exciting. We went and bought some blankets etc. Then came home and ate. I was so tired that I fell asleep because we were going signboarding and that fell through, so my companion said I could take a nap.
I woke up at a quarter to 6 and we went tracking [it's actually called tracting (going door to door with a tract or pamphlet) - but it's my first exposure to it - so understandable that I would misspell it.] We went way over onto another metro line and took a long bus. We went to the top floor of a building and started tracking. Elder Barnes did the first few doors and then I did the 3rd door.
They [the inhabitants of the apartment] came to the door speaking English and so when they opened I spoke in English. We talked to them for a minute and one of the guys, there were two guys in the apartment, kept asking if we had ever been robbed. They invited us in and we talked about the Book of Mormon, and then we talked for a little bit. The one guy kept asking us if we had ever been robbed. He said it about 5 or 6 times, and finally Elder Barnes asked what he was getting at. He pulled a gun underneath his pillow and demanded Elder Barnes' watch ["I'm getting at this" he said as he pulled the gun out.]
Elder Barnes said it was time to go and walked to the door [to the room we were in] and out before one of the guys closed the door [right as I was trying to get through it - I was stuck in there with him]. He opened the door and went out but locked the front [door]. He didn't bring the gun with him though. Then Elder Barnes ran back in the room and one guy that had pulled out the gun went in and closed the door.
Then Elder Barnes came back out of the room WITH THE GUN [waving it around and telling them to get back]. In the meantime I had the other guy unlock the door. I grabbed both our shoes and we ran down the stairs and went down the stairs [??] and we put our shoes back on. [Elder Barnes could just stick his feet in his shoes like nothing...wiggle a bit and boom he had them on. I had to unlace them and re-tie. I was still retying when] Elder Barnes said something like "that makes me mad" and he went back up the stairs.
I said "Whoa, whoa" and followed him up. He like rang the door and said "Open the fetching door [you fetchers]" and they did and then.....
They all started LAUGHING and I got that it was a joke. So we laughed and talked for a while.
Just now Elder Barnes said that people think America is so much better. They will move there. Actually I put that to the question and he said you'd be surprised. This is not even as good as America - I said "I don't think America is so much better" and he said that "when you get my age on a mission you'll feel differently". It was funny.
[Post journal chat - the really ironic thing about this hazing was the fact that several things about the hazing should have tipped me off. Ст. Eric Larsen & Ст. Marcus Woolverton (who had pulled the gun) had thought it was going to be later and weren't expecting us. So that's why they were speaking English. As we walked in there was the picture of Christ appearing in the skies on the far side of the apartment. Both missionaries were wearing shorts and so as we sat on beds opposite each other I thought that I saw garments underneath their shorts. They must have noticed me looking though, because they immediately asked me another question and pulled their shorts down.
Ст. Larsen was the one by the front door that opened it for me when Ст. Barnes was in the room. He was trying not to laugh and he said that he wished that he could have taken a picture of my face when Ст. Barnes came out with the gun. He said my eyes were so huge.
Two days later at church on Sunday it was hard for me to trust those two, especially Ст. Woolverton. He actually was next companion two months later. Ст. Woolverton is really a nice guy and I had a lot of fun with him during our companionship.]
It's 9:51pm. Today we didn't do much. But it was really exciting. We went and bought some blankets etc. Then came home and ate. I was so tired that I fell asleep because we were going signboarding and that fell through, so my companion said I could take a nap.
I woke up at a quarter to 6 and we went tracking [it's actually called tracting (going door to door with a tract or pamphlet) - but it's my first exposure to it - so understandable that I would misspell it.] We went way over onto another metro line and took a long bus. We went to the top floor of a building and started tracking. Elder Barnes did the first few doors and then I did the 3rd door.
They [the inhabitants of the apartment] came to the door speaking English and so when they opened I spoke in English. We talked to them for a minute and one of the guys, there were two guys in the apartment, kept asking if we had ever been robbed. They invited us in and we talked about the Book of Mormon, and then we talked for a little bit. The one guy kept asking us if we had ever been robbed. He said it about 5 or 6 times, and finally Elder Barnes asked what he was getting at. He pulled a gun underneath his pillow and demanded Elder Barnes' watch ["I'm getting at this" he said as he pulled the gun out.]
Elder Barnes said it was time to go and walked to the door [to the room we were in] and out before one of the guys closed the door [right as I was trying to get through it - I was stuck in there with him]. He opened the door and went out but locked the front [door]. He didn't bring the gun with him though. Then Elder Barnes ran back in the room and one guy that had pulled out the gun went in and closed the door.
Then Elder Barnes came back out of the room WITH THE GUN [waving it around and telling them to get back]. In the meantime I had the other guy unlock the door. I grabbed both our shoes and we ran down the stairs and went down the stairs [??] and we put our shoes back on. [Elder Barnes could just stick his feet in his shoes like nothing...wiggle a bit and boom he had them on. I had to unlace them and re-tie. I was still retying when] Elder Barnes said something like "that makes me mad" and he went back up the stairs.
I said "Whoa, whoa" and followed him up. He like rang the door and said "Open the fetching door [you fetchers]" and they did and then.....
They all started LAUGHING and I got that it was a joke. So we laughed and talked for a while.
Just now Elder Barnes said that people think America is so much better. They will move there. Actually I put that to the question and he said you'd be surprised. This is not even as good as America - I said "I don't think America is so much better" and he said that "when you get my age on a mission you'll feel differently". It was funny.
[Post journal chat - the really ironic thing about this hazing was the fact that several things about the hazing should have tipped me off. Ст. Eric Larsen & Ст. Marcus Woolverton (who had pulled the gun) had thought it was going to be later and weren't expecting us. So that's why they were speaking English. As we walked in there was the picture of Christ appearing in the skies on the far side of the apartment. Both missionaries were wearing shorts and so as we sat on beds opposite each other I thought that I saw garments underneath their shorts. They must have noticed me looking though, because they immediately asked me another question and pulled their shorts down.
Ст. Larsen was the one by the front door that opened it for me when Ст. Barnes was in the room. He was trying not to laugh and he said that he wished that he could have taken a picture of my face when Ст. Barnes came out with the gun. He said my eyes were so huge.
Two days later at church on Sunday it was hard for me to trust those two, especially Ст. Woolverton. He actually was next companion two months later. Ст. Woolverton is really a nice guy and I had a lot of fun with him during our companionship.]
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