March 17, 1997 - Monday

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

February 4, 1997 - Tuesday

Today we gave two Ds.  The 3rd for new members and the 4th D for investigators.  It went pretty good.  In the D with Virginia [the new member] she seems so much happier.  She understood everything about what were talking [seriously - I wonder how bad my grammar is going to get.  I assume I meant "we were talking about"].  Also Argily's brother Christyon was there.  Ст. Woolverton invited him to hear the discussions.  He seems interested.

Then in our D with Алисия & Жаром [Aliciya - prounounce Aleeseeya, Jarom] we used a plastic model of the Plan of Salvation.  It went well.  I got up early and studied really good today.  You know, like I should everyday.  well night

January 29, 1997 - Wednesday

We had a really good D on Tuesday with Alicia & Jarom.  We went and read from the Book of Mormon.  We read 3 Nephi 11.  I'm sure they read it before, but it was good to read it over with them.  They asked questions and we discussed a lot.  Ст. Woolverton said they might be getting a little bored so we wanted to get them excited about the Book of Mormon.  I read pretty good and I got to explain things and asked one question - I think?  That is something that I need to work on.  I need to ask questions more. 

Jarom shows the exact same characteristics that Grandma Johnson showed.  It's hard for him to read, slightly slurred speech, loss of motion skills on one half of his body.  I imagine it's pretty hard for him.  I don't think he works.  That would be pretty scary.  Later I was talking with Ст. Johnson & Ст. Woolverton about the mission splitting and then Ст. Burghardt told us at District Meeting that it is official. 

I need to crack down and study.  I could get a greenie soon and I want to be in charge of myself.  I've been doing good with my problem, none since Sunday.  It's been cool.  Well night.

I think it was what Elder Johnson told me.  It kind of scared and excited me.  I need to be the best I can be.  A darn hard working missionary.