June 1, 1997 - Sunday

Another week started.  Well we managed to plan this week, at least.  I'm so tired.  Church today was pretty cool.  In the meeting we had some pretty weird testimonies.  I guess it was pretty good.  Then we stayed after for Institute.  Жанна [Zhahna] does a really good job.  She's pretty cute.  She likes to add all these little очка's [ochkas] on the end of stuff.  Like спасибочка [it would be like saying thanx] and shortens all the stuff.  She's really outgoing and has a nice voice.  In Sunday School I was in a regular member class.  This guy named Владимр Кабанов [Vladimur Kabahnov], in was there and in Elders Quorum [I think that I was trying to say "was in there"].  He answered so many questions.  It was cool.  He's in our area plus Олег Гарбус - who used to serve here in Moscow.  Well брат Кабанов plays the piano like a pro. 

[Post journal chat - брат Кабанов playing piano is great because it was always hard to find someone to play the songs in Sacrement Meeting.  In the first branch that I served in, we would play a cd with the songs on it and sing along.  It was never loud enough.

Plus when we missionaries sang by ourselves our tempo was nice and fast and we always sang with gusto.  So from a cd in sacrement meeting that played a lot slower than I was used to...it wasn't the best singing I've ever heard.]

May 4th, Sunday

Man neither Алла or Евгенний [Alla or Yevgenni] came to church today but the meeting was really good.  It was fast and testimony meeting and Сестра Вера [Sister Vera] - "the glue in the bob corner" as Ст. Sefcik likes to say.  Ст. Russel and Pres. Карнеев [Karneyev] bore their testimonies.  It was really good.  So did the "слава тебе" [glory to you] lady.  Then I went off with the young men.  They kept beating each other.  I felt like whacking them also.  Ст. King picked on Влад [Vlad] for a little bit.  That wasn't very cool.

I have a really good idea for an activity from Ст. Gammon.  If everything goes as planned, I will have the young men clean Васили Гарбунов's and  Геннади Тен's [Vasili Garbunov's and Gennadi Ten's] cars for a service project.  In secret, then we will go eat Dunkin' Donuts and hot chocolate.  It should be fun.

[Post journal chat - You know, I don't remember if we actually did anything like this for a service project.  I hope we did - it sounds like fun.  Maybe later in my journal we'll hear about it.  Check out the Location that I saved it on.  When you go close enough, you can see the building we lived in and which end of the building.  Pretty sweet.]