Wow - this week went pretty fast. We had a pretty wacked D with Николай и Татьяна [Nickolai and Tatyana] on Friday. We had it without Володия [Volodiya] and she [Татьяна] mentioned this book again called "The Gospel of Peace from Essen." It's way false doctrine. In there they pray to God in the name of Heavenly Father and then they pray to Mother Earth. Also it says that you have [should] not eat meat, eggs and fish. Well they [Николай и Татьяна] believe it is scripture. So obviously they have a concern there. So we will probably put off there [their] baptism for a little longer.
Well to catch you up on the rest of the week. We played a North vs. South Gatorball match on P-Day. The South lost in overtime. I whined too much. Then we came home and made lunch for Сты. Reegan and Nelson. It was spagetti and fries. It was pretty dang good.
Then they left and Ст. Schwartz wanted [to go to] Арбат [Arbat] street to see it for the last time. Well we had quite a metro ride. We were on the metro and this hot girl got on showing off long legs and breasts in a low-cut shirt. Well she wasn't anything compared to what we saw next. This other hot girl got on and she sat across from us. Well she had on a short pink dress. So short that I would have to say that white is a good color for panties. I was stunned, it was my first flash, well almost. Ст. Schwartz covered his face and studied his words and I looked away. When we looked up next time, just to see if uh, uh - what the next station was, she had covered up her indecency with her purse. I looked her in the eye for a while. I don't know if she did it intentionally or not.
Thursday we went and played with the kids [service at the orphanage] and then tried to find tinfoil after we got jaked by Евгения [Evgeniya]. We didn't get there in time so we went back to the reenik, on Пролетарская [Proletarskaya], Friday - after service and in between o[u]r D with them [Николай и Татьяна]. After the D we ate and then made a whole lot of calls, mostly talking with the District Leader, Ст. Reegan. He gave us some good ideas - have a D with the Spirit so we can tell them straight up without upsetting them, get them to pray about the existence of only one true church - ours.
Okay, so what did we do today. We got up so freaking early and went to Речной Вокзал [River Train Station] we met up with Ваге [Vageh - by the way - I think this is the dude who kicked me in the leg while playing gatorball - when I was companions with Ст. Gammon] - if that's how you say his name and bought potatoes and onions and met up with everybody else in the metro and then got on a bus to Зелененград [Zelenongrad]. There we met our match - the rain and so many freaking mosquitoes. We started a fire - a чудеса [miracles] in itself and cooked boyscout foil dinners. Yep it tasted just [like] I remember - when you['re] that hungry anythings good. Then we did a little play about the Restoration of the Priesthood and came home. All in all it was a fun time. After the fire started and the rain stopped it was definately better. Not something I really want to repeat. I whined a lot before the fire started, but then I went to work and made the dinners. Man that new Strawberry Zuko is good. Well night. I'm so freaking tired.
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6/28/12
6/24/12
June 24, 1997 - Tuesday
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.
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.
6/23/12
June 20, 1997 - Friday
Okay we pretty much screwed off today and yesterday. We went signboarding today and I freaking suck. No I did alright but I need to do it more. Oh I almost forgot but when I called Лидия Залыгин[а - Lidia Zaligina] to talk about her birthday. I said "Что - тебе двести лет да?" [What - you're 200 years old right? - Instead of 20 years old.] She got a good kick out of that. So did Ст. Schwartz. In fact he teased me unmercifully.
Tomorrow we have a pretty full day already. If everything falls into place. And we might even have a D with Дима [Dima] the guy that speaks English. That will be weird to see how we do that. Service today was draining because the kids were really freaking wanting. They don't get love or attention very often so they want all they can get. One little girl, Катя [Katya] (the not so nice one) kept grabbing me in the balls and they told me пипсик & баначки two words that I don't exactly know what they mean.
[mid-journal chat - pipsik & banachki - hahahaha - two words that I still don't know what they mean. Both words are shortforms - meaning small versions of the normal words - so I assume that they were calling it little - the picture below is of service, but with the companion after Shwartz - from left to right are Elders Steve Nelson, Ken Bassett, Ben Erickson (my companion) and some really awesome dude from Idaho! Look at how freaking cool the little kid is sitting off to the side on his own.]
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I had one good contact Васили Филипович [Vasili Filipovich - I'm probably talking about when we went signboarding earlier in the day] - he lives outside the city in Подолск [Padolsk - a city just south of Moscow - almost a suburb - an electrichki - an electric train - carries passengers in every day - about a half an hour ride to Moscow]. It would be cool if we could go out to Подолск and give this guy a D and then go over to a member's house and eat and have a little family home evening! Well night!
Tomorrow we have a pretty full day already. If everything falls into place. And we might even have a D with Дима [Dima] the guy that speaks English. That will be weird to see how we do that. Service today was draining because the kids were really freaking wanting. They don't get love or attention very often so they want all they can get. One little girl, Катя [Katya] (the not so nice one) kept grabbing me in the balls and they told me пипсик & баначки two words that I don't exactly know what they mean.
[mid-journal chat - pipsik & banachki - hahahaha - two words that I still don't know what they mean. Both words are shortforms - meaning small versions of the normal words - so I assume that they were calling it little - the picture below is of service, but with the companion after Shwartz - from left to right are Elders Steve Nelson, Ken Bassett, Ben Erickson (my companion) and some really awesome dude from Idaho! Look at how freaking cool the little kid is sitting off to the side on his own.]
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June 17, 1997 - Tuesday
Well today I woke up like 10 or something. It was great. The weather was almost cold and I could sleep really good. Last night we had a lot of fun at семеный вечер [Family Home Evening]. Today we had our собрание округа [District Meeting] and I did get some mail. I told Ст. Schwartz that I was going to scream if I didn't get anything but I did, so I didn't get to scream. Still nothing from my mom, but oh well. I got two packages also. From Tammy Krajnik. Cool huh? They are cookies. Pretty good ones in fact. Well on came in a "Pringles" can and the cookies are so thrashed that I can't eat them. So I am going to use them for cereal in the morning. I got a letter from Nick also. And one from Grandma and Kathy Bishop and Sister (I forgot her name, but she's psycho anyways) D...
Nick's letter is pretty hard to read but I assume mine was like that also. We made chili again but it doesn't taste right and it's so freaking hot (spicy). I still hate mail days. They freaking suck so bad. I hate it when I get hardly any mail. Actually I could get a whole lot of mail and still be upset. I just want to be home, because Russian f'ing sucks dude. (?!# Bleep Bleep
[mid-journal chat - Alright - for some reason I was pretty upset here. It's a good thing that a journal is a private place - haha - where I can vent my feelings so that I don't vent during my missionary work. I look back at my mission and I see times when sometimes for no reasons at all I get depressed, or even if I think there is a reason - looking back it seems like my feelings are all out of proportion to what they should be.]
Well we are done with our D with Евгений [Evgeny or Eugene in English] and some dude followed us from the metro. We got in the elevator with this old dude and his dog and then this other guy got in with us. We got out on the 6th [floor] and the guy also got out. It was really weird he didn't get in the elevator again. And then he asked "which one of you is going to help me, I'm from Afghanistan." It was freaking strange. Anyways we just told him that we can't help that way and he eventually left. Man it's wigging me out. Well I gotta write some letters, so bye for now.
Nick's letter is pretty hard to read but I assume mine was like that also. We made chili again but it doesn't taste right and it's so freaking hot (spicy). I still hate mail days. They freaking suck so bad. I hate it when I get hardly any mail. Actually I could get a whole lot of mail and still be upset. I just want to be home, because Russian f'ing sucks dude. (?!# Bleep Bleep
[mid-journal chat - Alright - for some reason I was pretty upset here. It's a good thing that a journal is a private place - haha - where I can vent my feelings so that I don't vent during my missionary work. I look back at my mission and I see times when sometimes for no reasons at all I get depressed, or even if I think there is a reason - looking back it seems like my feelings are all out of proportion to what they should be.]
Well we are done with our D with Евгений [Evgeny or Eugene in English] and some dude followed us from the metro. We got in the elevator with this old dude and his dog and then this other guy got in with us. We got out on the 6th [floor] and the guy also got out. It was really weird he didn't get in the elevator again. And then he asked "which one of you is going to help me, I'm from Afghanistan." It was freaking strange. Anyways we just told him that we can't help that way and he eventually left. Man it's wigging me out. Well I gotta write some letters, so bye for now.
6/13/12
June 15, 1997 Sunday (about Fri really)
I forgot to tell about Friday [June 13, 1997]. We went signboarding after lunch in a park on Царицино [Tsaritsina]. It's really pretty and it reminds me of the pictures of Joseph Smith's First Prayer. Well as we were signboarding, these Jehovah's Witnesses came up and talked to Shwartz. I took over because I just wanted to have fun, so I talked to them for a while and I just bore testimony in the name of Jesus Christ.
The only good contact I had was a lady named Олга [Olga]. She said she might come to church but she didn't have a phone. I didn't get her address either, so if she doesn't come then...well it really sucks. Well it's time to go to Church, bye.
The only good contact I had was a lady named Олга [Olga]. She said she might come to church but she didn't have a phone. I didn't get her address either, so if she doesn't come then...well it really sucks. Well it's time to go to Church, bye.
5/31/12
May 31, 1997 - Saturday
Well another day here and gone. Today we had a picnic at Царицино [Tsaritsinо - 400 year old area where Katherine the Great started building a palace - now a park with some cool ruins.] Ира ["блестящая," Гроза - Ira "blestyashaya" Grozah, or Ira "Shiny" Storm] Надия [Ягадкина - Nadia Yagadkina - Nadia is short for Nadyezhda, Hope and her last name is Berry], Саша [Sasha - one of the nicknames for Aleksander], - (повые члены Церкви) [a new member of the Church - but I totally screwed it up, because I was only talking about Sasha, but I used the plural, and I also used an English n, which is a p in Russian, so what I actually said was "new members" or Povie members], Зинейдя [Zenaida is what it should sound like, but again I misspelled and wrote Zenadya - which is almost right ;)], plus Сты. Kearl and Keller.
Then an investigator of Wright's - Генады [Genadi], also two brothers Миша [Misha - nickname for Michael] & Серёз [Seryoz - nickname for Sergei] and then this kid named Саша [Sasha] was there. Maybe we can get him to take the Ds. That be really good to get a new family. Man my feet stink. I'm a freak. I beat Ст. Shwartz in chess. It made me feel better. But I'll probably lose tomorrow.
Well night, it's 11:00 [pm].
Then an investigator of Wright's - Генады [Genadi], also two brothers Миша [Misha - nickname for Michael] & Серёз [Seryoz - nickname for Sergei] and then this kid named Саша [Sasha] was there. Maybe we can get him to take the Ds. That be really good to get a new family. Man my feet stink. I'm a freak. I beat Ст. Shwartz in chess. It made me feel better. But I'll probably lose tomorrow.
Well night, it's 11:00 [pm].
5/30/12
May 30, 1997 - Friday
I've just gotten my butt kicked rather soundly by Ст. Shwartz 3 times [in chess]. I just haven't found out how to get him yet. When we first played, I thought he sucked, but I guess I do.
oh yeah, I had interviews also.
oh yeah, I had interviews also.
5/22/12
May 22, 1997 - Thursday
Well today we [Ст. Shwartz & I] did practically nothing today [from the Department of Redundancy Department]. It rained so much. Last night I had a visit from the Runs. It was about 11:30 pm before I could get to sleep. It lasted for such a long time. So this morning I stayed in bed until about 8:30 am. I was so freaking tired. I think it is from the runs & a little sickness.
I also had my problem in the shower today. It had been 4 days - a pretty good amount of time lately. I wanted to go a really long time. Like up until next interviews with President Jarvis. It will be our last with him, I think. He's a cool guy. I've always come away from interviews with a better feeling about myself. But I want to show him that I am getting better and that I can be trusted and am a hard worker. So I guess that means that I had better be a good, hard worker. So far this week we've been slackers. We had better do a lot of work in the next two days or it'll be a total waste and then I'd feel like crap.
Tonight we stopped by a less active member and dropped off some stuff for her. We also shopped earlier. As we were walking along we got stopped by a lady in a shack and she wanted to know if we taught English. But she didn't listen to us enough, or we just couldn't get our point across because she didn't understand us.
After English [class] today Сты. Ганху [Gangkhu] & Wright came over to our house and we had casserole and it took forever to make and eat. 1-4 pm they were over here. Right now I have freaking hurtful farts. The kind that really hurt because I'm constipated or something. Right now I'm listening to my Alternative Best #2 because I've never listened to it before. I have all these cds that I have to get used to.
I also had my problem in the shower today. It had been 4 days - a pretty good amount of time lately. I wanted to go a really long time. Like up until next interviews with President Jarvis. It will be our last with him, I think. He's a cool guy. I've always come away from interviews with a better feeling about myself. But I want to show him that I am getting better and that I can be trusted and am a hard worker. So I guess that means that I had better be a good, hard worker. So far this week we've been slackers. We had better do a lot of work in the next two days or it'll be a total waste and then I'd feel like crap.
Tonight we stopped by a less active member and dropped off some stuff for her. We also shopped earlier. As we were walking along we got stopped by a lady in a shack and she wanted to know if we taught English. But she didn't listen to us enough, or we just couldn't get our point across because she didn't understand us.
After English [class] today Сты. Ганху [Gangkhu] & Wright came over to our house and we had casserole and it took forever to make and eat. 1-4 pm they were over here. Right now I have freaking hurtful farts. The kind that really hurt because I'm constipated or something. Right now I'm listening to my Alternative Best #2 because I've never listened to it before. I have all these cds that I have to get used to.
8/24/11
May 17, 1997 - Saturday
Well today we went to the cd reenik. Oh what a lovely place - the birds are always singing - there is always the sun in the sky. I'm now at 63 cds - up 18 from 45. I got a couple that I don't know if I'll like, but what will make great presents to my family.
My companion is keeping busy with the Area Book. [Each companionship is responsible for a geographic area and works with the members and investigators in that area to further missionary work. If missionaries were suddenly replaced then the new missionaries wouldn't know who was in the area, at what stage they were in etc. unless we kept records - ie. the Area Book.]
[Elder Schwartz]'s a good guy. We played chess twice. The first time he got me. But the second time he tried the old "4 move checkmate" thing. Well the thing is if you move your horse out and you can kill their queen after a couple of moves. He's not afraid to trade pieces though. I can see he'll be better than me someday. When he gets good at chess he'll wipe me up.
My companion is keeping busy with the Area Book. [Each companionship is responsible for a geographic area and works with the members and investigators in that area to further missionary work. If missionaries were suddenly replaced then the new missionaries wouldn't know who was in the area, at what stage they were in etc. unless we kept records - ie. the Area Book.]
[Elder Schwartz]'s a good guy. We played chess twice. The first time he got me. But the second time he tried the old "4 move checkmate" thing. Well the thing is if you move your horse out and you can kill their queen after a couple of moves. He's not afraid to trade pieces though. I can see he'll be better than me someday. When he gets good at chess he'll wipe me up.
5/22/11
May 16, 1997 - Friday
Well it's my first day with Ст. Shwartz. My first morning [in a new apartment] and the water is off. It was so cold. You would not believe how cold it was. I did my head first and then face and shaved. Then I got back in and decided to wash the rest of me. It was cold, baby.
We had big biscuits and thick gravy for breakfast. I could only eat 1 1/2 because they were so big. I'm getting a radio and my cd player back from [Ст.] Woolverton. I bought his radio. It's cool. So huge. I love it. Well I guess I'd better study.
We had big biscuits and thick gravy for breakfast. I could only eat 1 1/2 because they were so big. I'm getting a radio and my cd player back from [Ст.] Woolverton. I bought his radio. It's cool. So huge. I love it. Well I guess I'd better study.
May 12, 1997 - Monday
Новый День у меня [New Day at me - I'm sure I was meaning "It's a new day for me"]
Well I talked to my mom and dad, Nick and Grandma yesterday night. Mother's Day had finally rolled around. It was weird again. I basically just talked with them. Not about anything in particular. Grandma Richardson was up because my cousin Kyle was up in Nampa and she hasn't seen him for a very long while. She told me to write him. I told her I just did. Everything is weird. I want to go home. Last night after talking to them Ст. Gammon and I did comp. planning and inventory. Oh it's still the 12th. It's Ст. King's birthday - Woohoo.
Well I talked to my mom and dad, Nick and Grandma yesterday night. Mother's Day had finally rolled around. It was weird again. I basically just talked with them. Not about anything in particular. Grandma Richardson was up because my cousin Kyle was up in Nampa and she hasn't seen him for a very long while. She told me to write him. I told her I just did. Everything is weird. I want to go home. Last night after talking to them Ст. Gammon and I did comp. planning and inventory. Oh it's still the 12th. It's Ст. King's birthday - Woohoo.
Well I found out that I will be in a different Приход [preehod - Branch] next Sunday. Даже Четверг [even Thursday]. I'll be companions with a Ст. Shwartz. I went on splits with him a couple of Fridays ago. He's a pretty cool guy and he's only been out a month more than me. It's great. I finally feel like I'll have a chance to grow. I really want to be a good missionary who works hard, is a great guy and has an awesome CD collection. Right now I don't know if you can do that, but I'll try for goodness sakes.
Well it's time to go to bed. I got a picture from Gilbert. He said "That's what nine months will do to you." He was dressed up like a pregnant girl. He's been out 9 months. Cool huh?
5/2/11
May 2, 1997 - Friday
Had a cool D with the Басовы (Basovwi). Today is so awesome day [what?]. First yesterday Пьер (Pierre) had his interview with President Jarvis and everything will go forward for the 11th of May. That is so awesome. It was [a] pretty busy day for us yesterday. We went signboarding in the park and I didn't like it as much. Then we dropped off a degree of specifications by Брат Локшин [Brother Lokshin]. When we got home I called Ири Магалевский [Yuri Magalevski - I'm not too sure about the last name] because we had a book he wanted called Наше Наследия, Our Heritage. Well he invited us over right then to give it to him. Well we went over and talked to him until 10:30pm - then went to bed.
Well today I was on splits with Ст. Shwartz. He's a pretty funny guy. We went signboarding and then we had a huge lunch. Tacos. It was 2 hours though. Then we went signboarding again down on the metro by Юго-запедная [Yugo-Zapednaya or South-West] and I talked to two really cool people. One walked around after we talked and read the BOM [Book of Mormon]. Okay, then we left there and went to Алла's [Alla's]. It was so rad. The Spirit was really strong and I thought I spoke really good. It was because the Spirit was there so strong. She opened with prayer and I could just immediately feel the Spirit. We read the D's but she was really patient and she kept trying to feed us soup or to warm up our чай - which might have been real. We committed her to baptism. So we scheduled her to be baptized on the 9th of June. Then we came home and I called Евгений [Yevgenii] for tomorrow. Well it's late so we'll go to bed.
Well today I was on splits with Ст. Shwartz. He's a pretty funny guy. We went signboarding and then we had a huge lunch. Tacos. It was 2 hours though. Then we went signboarding again down on the metro by Юго-запедная [Yugo-Zapednaya or South-West] and I talked to two really cool people. One walked around after we talked and read the BOM [Book of Mormon]. Okay, then we left there and went to Алла's [Alla's]. It was so rad. The Spirit was really strong and I thought I spoke really good. It was because the Spirit was there so strong. She opened with prayer and I could just immediately feel the Spirit. We read the D's but she was really patient and she kept trying to feed us soup or to warm up our чай - which might have been real. We committed her to baptism. So we scheduled her to be baptized on the 9th of June. Then we came home and I called Евгений [Yevgenii] for tomorrow. Well it's late so we'll go to bed.
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