Ст. Larson just gave me the bird. (That is so my grandchildren will know about me...whatever).
Today we helped Larsen more to his new apartment on Prospekt Mira [Let's start with Mir - it's the name of the space station and it means both peace and the world. The a means of peace or of the world. Prospekt is street. So it's the street of peace, or the street of the world.] and then took some of Ст. Larson's parent's bags to the same apartment for storage until Friday. Then we had lunch on Ст. Larson and came home, Ст. Larsen is & was with us.
Then we went over to Алисия & Жаром's [Alicia & Jarom's]. All of the investigators were there except Virginia & Eric. It was pretty good, but we weren't expecting food so at first we were kind of disappointed, but it went pretty well.
Okay right here I'm going to rag on Ст. Larsen. Today is not my favorite day. Never mind. He's just not the kind of guy that has any tact. Okay that's as much as I'm going to rag on him.
I also received a letter from Sister Brown who lives in Greece. She is serving a mission there. She's pretty good looking and I wasn't sure if I would get a letter back from her or not. That is pretty dang cool, so I was pretty excited. We have Ст. Larsen & Howes, an elder who is going home in 3 days. We played poker and Ст. Howes won all. That sucks for me. But oh well. night
[Missionary Weekly Planner - up above I mentioned all the investigators from Alicia & Jarom's apartment building were over there except for a couple. So I looked up the weekly blue planner to see who all we had written down, on the backside. So for March 16 - Mar 22 we have...
These were all Africans from Zaire/Congo that lived in the dorm-like building. Except Pierre - he was married to Tatyana
Алисия и Жаром - Alicia & Jarom
Эрик - Eric
Арели - Areily
Пьер - Pierre
Малу - Malout
Virginia is one of the Africans but she had just been baptized, so we would have the new member discussions.
Вержения - Virginia
These were contacts that we would try to set up discussions with.
Алла - Alla
Валери - Valeri
These were less active members that we went and worked with.
Владим Басова - Vladim Basov
Давид Волов - David Volov
Юлия и Татьяна Волкова - Yulia & Tatyana Bolkova
I don't remember who this was, just on the list but not with anything written
Юри - Yuri
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3/25/11
3/14/11
March 6, 1997 - Thursday
Today I got up at 7:20am and jogged in place for 16 minutes. It helped. Got me warmed up so I wasn't cold and expended some energy. Pres. was right. I even put my hands above my head like he said: the international sign for victory.
We are having lunch with our собран[ие] округа [District Meeting - sobraniye okrooga] today. An AP will be here today also. I wonder which one. Yesterday night we went over to Larsen & Larson's and had some cookies. I played Ст. Larsen in chess twice and lost twice. I am pissed at him. Not really because I lost. Well...not ALL because I lost, but because he is such a poor sport when he wins. He's just a dick. He thinks he is God's greatest gift to the earth and it gets boring. He is really generous though. He gave us some root beers etc. from Mick's and he is always nice. It just last night it built to a head. oh well.
We are having lunch with our собран[ие] округа [District Meeting - sobraniye okrooga] today. An AP will be here today also. I wonder which one. Yesterday night we went over to Larsen & Larson's and had some cookies. I played Ст. Larsen in chess twice and lost twice. I am pissed at him. Not really because I lost. Well...not ALL because I lost, but because he is such a poor sport when he wins. He's just a dick. He thinks he is God's greatest gift to the earth and it gets boring. He is really generous though. He gave us some root beers etc. from Mick's and he is always nice. It just last night it built to a head. oh well.
3/2/11
March 2, 1997 - Sunday
Well today is also weird - well not weird - just a little slow. We had church, came home and ate some more borscht [борщ] that Ст. Woolverton made. Its really good. We also had some melted cheese sandwiches. Then we planned for a half an hour or so and Ст. Larsen called. So we went up there and he [Larsen] cut our hair. On the sides mine is pretty short.
While I was there I was talking to Ст. Larson, notice the o, about surfing. I asked him if he knew any professional surfers. He said who and I asked him about Joel Fisher. He served a mission in Boise, Idaho and was in our ward for a while. I told him a couple of stories about him and he said he used to be in his ward and they surfed at the same places.
Now we are back at the house chilling. And I'm watching "the Rain Man." I'll have to go now to watch it.
[Post journal chat - Larsen & Larson had been companions the same amount of time that Woolverton & I had been. Larsen was from UT (I think) and he was companions with Woolverton when Ст. Barnes & I tracted them out on my first full day in Russia. Larson was from Cali and had been companions with Ст. Paige while I was with my trainer.
When Larsen was cutting my hair he would get to the cowlick at the back of my head and it wouldn't be to his liking so he would cut it shorter. Then he would have to cut the rest of the sides to be the same shortness. Then he would go back to the cowlick and cut it shorter again. He did this a couple of times and I wanted to stop him after the first time. That's why I mentioned in my journal that "On the sides mine is pretty short."
This was back before missionaries had to have a discernible part in their hair - so it was dang, dang, short!! The only other time that I had a really short hair cut was when I had about 2 1/2 months left in my mission, and I buzzed it. 3 weeks after that I had my interview with the President and he said I had a nice short haircut. I said thanks, and told him that I got it cut 3 weeks ago. Yeah...he didn't like it that much.
Now let's talk about borscht [борщ]. This was probably one of my earliest times eating it, most probably my first time helping make it. All through my mission I loved to make and eat it. In Russian борщ is just so much shorter than in English...here is why. бор is bor. A ш has the sh sound, but notice that борщ has a щ. Its a ш with a tail. The tail gives it a little shch in stead of the sh sound.]
While I was there I was talking to Ст. Larson, notice the o, about surfing. I asked him if he knew any professional surfers. He said who and I asked him about Joel Fisher. He served a mission in Boise, Idaho and was in our ward for a while. I told him a couple of stories about him and he said he used to be in his ward and they surfed at the same places.
Now we are back at the house chilling. And I'm watching "the Rain Man." I'll have to go now to watch it.
[Post journal chat - Larsen & Larson had been companions the same amount of time that Woolverton & I had been. Larsen was from UT (I think) and he was companions with Woolverton when Ст. Barnes & I tracted them out on my first full day in Russia. Larson was from Cali and had been companions with Ст. Paige while I was with my trainer.
When Larsen was cutting my hair he would get to the cowlick at the back of my head and it wouldn't be to his liking so he would cut it shorter. Then he would have to cut the rest of the sides to be the same shortness. Then he would go back to the cowlick and cut it shorter again. He did this a couple of times and I wanted to stop him after the first time. That's why I mentioned in my journal that "On the sides mine is pretty short."
This was back before missionaries had to have a discernible part in their hair - so it was dang, dang, short!! The only other time that I had a really short hair cut was when I had about 2 1/2 months left in my mission, and I buzzed it. 3 weeks after that I had my interview with the President and he said I had a nice short haircut. I said thanks, and told him that I got it cut 3 weeks ago. Yeah...he didn't like it that much.
Now let's talk about borscht [борщ]. This was probably one of my earliest times eating it, most probably my first time helping make it. All through my mission I loved to make and eat it. In Russian борщ is just so much shorter than in English...here is why. бор is bor. A ш has the sh sound, but notice that борщ has a щ. Its a ш with a tail. The tail gives it a little shch in stead of the sh sound.]
1/5/11
December 25, 1996 - Wednesday
CHRISTMAS DAY and it sucks being here. Really sucks. But oh well. Last night we went over to these people's house who are investigators. They are pretty cool and they fed us dang good. Then after we went over to Ст. Larsen and Woolverton's. It was just those two and me and my comp at the Сты. [the ы makes it plural - Elders] house but it was all the Сты. in our district. [I don't know what I meant there either?]
At Woolverton's & Larsen's I played each of them twice [in Chess] and beat them and today I played Larsen [and] beat him once & lost once. Oh yeah, I played Ст. Barnes yesterday too and beat him. I usually lose to him.
Then today we came over after we woke up and showered & stuff. We got there about 2:30[pm] or so because I woke up at 12:40. We had stayed last night until 2? and I got to bed pretty late. We got over there and they were watching Forrest Gump we finished that and watched t.v. until almost 8, when after I had called my parents.
I started making supper. It was more like burritos but it had El Paso taco mix and refried beans and tomatoes etc. It was dang good, with Dr. Pepper etc. We went home at about 11 or so.
At Woolverton's & Larsen's I played each of them twice [in Chess] and beat them and today I played Larsen [and] beat him once & lost once. Oh yeah, I played Ст. Barnes yesterday too and beat him. I usually lose to him.
Then today we came over after we woke up and showered & stuff. We got there about 2:30[pm] or so because I woke up at 12:40. We had stayed last night until 2? and I got to bed pretty late. We got over there and they were watching Forrest Gump we finished that and watched t.v. until almost 8, when after I had called my parents.
I started making supper. It was more like burritos but it had El Paso taco mix and refried beans and tomatoes etc. It was dang good, with Dr. Pepper etc. We went home at about 11 or so.
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.
December 8, 1996 - Sunday
It's after Church - we came back to the apartment with Ст. Larsen and Woolverton and we had pizza. It was good. Now we are sitting around talking about skiing. I am so trunky. I want to be one of the ones going home to girls, skiing and etc. Oh well I'm not - so why whine about it.
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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