[Pre-Post Chat - Okay folks let's remember that feelings about people aren't static...they change, and are fluid. So a pre-apology to Dennis if you're reading this...sorry and I don't feel the same way now. Plus sometimes if I am talking bad about someone I may or may not hide/alter their names to protect the innocent...yadda, yadda, yadda!]
Oh do I...I don't. I definitely won't mind next changes. Unless I go with someone like like H****s or something, then I'm fine. In comp-inventory Ст. Gammon said something like "If we go in and teach Евгенний & Марина [Yevgenni & Marina] by just reading, we are going to bore them to death." Well I'm glad he's so f*ing perfect!! So instead of saying that I just told him maybe we should go over the Ds in the morning and see how you'd teach them.
He's been putting me on splits with Ст. King a lot. Who's a good friend from home, but he's not that hard a worker. When I'm with him I don't work hard either. We were on splits Saturday night and we flipped on the tube. It was my idea, I have to admit. Earlier that Saturday we were on [splits] earlier for the zone blitzing [where all the missionaries in a zone would all to the same area/or a couple of areas and do contacting to help that district]. We went to someones apartment and wasted time until about 11am (from 10am) and then went and walked around for 1 1/2 hrs contacting two people. So you can see why I would never want him for a comp. I thought I would, but I don't.
We have Zone Conference coming up. It should be dang good. We are eating afterward and then having a night of laughter [Вечер Смеха]. Each district is suppose to have a skit. I[t] should be dang good. I've been going over next weeks lesson in the priesthood manual last night. It takes a while for me to translate it. It's alright though. Bye.
Showing posts with label language study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language study. Show all posts
3/1/11
March 1, 1997 - Saturday
A new month has dawn[ed]. At interviews with [Pres] Jarvis it went good. He said that my last few letters sounded a little down about my problem. He said not to worry about it. That I was a great missionary and that I just needed to improve, not to be perfect. He also added a little bit of psychology into the interview. He said that if I got up every morning and exercise. I would have more energy overall and I would wake up and I would expend energy and be tireder [is that a word?] at night.
Then here's the psychological part. He said to put my hands above my head, maybe do some hand touches while jogging. Raising your hands above your head does something for you he said. Raising your hands is the international symbol of a winner.
I also took the #7 lesson test and passed it [I do not even remotely remember any tests. I assume that I had already taken the #1 - #6 tests, but no mention is made about them before this. I wonder what it was]
Friday we went over to Перь's [Pierre's]. He was pretty sick and we asked him if we could give him a blessing. So Ст. Woolverton sealed my anointing. He blessed him health but also help with his many problems. Then we left because the spirit told Ст. W. that he [Pierre] was too sick even to listen.
well later
Then here's the psychological part. He said to put my hands above my head, maybe do some hand touches while jogging. Raising your hands above your head does something for you he said. Raising your hands is the international symbol of a winner.
I also took the #7 lesson test and passed it [I do not even remotely remember any tests. I assume that I had already taken the #1 - #6 tests, but no mention is made about them before this. I wonder what it was]
Friday we went over to Перь's [Pierre's]. He was pretty sick and we asked him if we could give him a blessing. So Ст. Woolverton sealed my anointing. He blessed him health but also help with his many problems. Then we left because the spirit told Ст. W. that he [Pierre] was too sick even to listen.
well later
2/2/11
January 30, 1997 - Thursday
Ст. Parks called this morning wanting to know if Ст. Aldredge [the Ст. that went down to Voronezh when I first got in Moscow] had left a black "Grammar and Illustrations" book. I said that I'd look for one and if I found one I'd send it down. I don't think there is one around, but I'll look. I got up at 9:30am. That's when he called so I had to. He's in Nizhny [Novgorod] and he had me call him back because his phone really sucks there for some reason.
[Post journal chat - It was pretty weird to hear from Ст. Parks again. It was out of nowhere. I never did find that book in that apartment, but later in my mission I did get my hands on one, and I kept it.
Nizhny Novgorod (Нижный Новгород) means "Lower New City." One of the first big cities of the Rus was called Novgorod or new city, and this one is lower/further south than the original. At least it's not called New New City. Who knows where it would stop then?]
[Post journal chat - It was pretty weird to hear from Ст. Parks again. It was out of nowhere. I never did find that book in that apartment, but later in my mission I did get my hands on one, and I kept it.
Nizhny Novgorod (Нижный Новгород) means "Lower New City." One of the first big cities of the Rus was called Novgorod or new city, and this one is lower/further south than the original. At least it's not called New New City. Who knows where it would stop then?]
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]
12/6/10
November 30, 1996 - Saturday
Let me tell you one weird thing about Russia...Kit Kats are made by Nestle'. Is that weird or what? Yesterday my companion was sick, so we went to English [Class] at 8am and got back at like 11-12.
We went to sleep , because we hadn't gotten much sleep the night before and then we didn't do anything all day. Elder Josh King called up to ask me if I knew that Gilbert had been mugged and I had already known that. So then I got directions to a Russian Department store where I could buy some good boots. They are going to cost $90, but I haven't used any of the money that I brang from home.
I just finished reading a chapter out of the Книга Мормона [BOM]. It took me quite a while, I'll tell you. I need to get an extension cord so I can listen to my CD player. I have no batteries left. Oh well. [Russian power outlets run at 220v, and America uses 110v so just plugging it in would fry the electronics without a converter/extension cord.].
We went to sleep , because we hadn't gotten much sleep the night before and then we didn't do anything all day. Elder Josh King called up to ask me if I knew that Gilbert had been mugged and I had already known that. So then I got directions to a Russian Department store where I could buy some good boots. They are going to cost $90, but I haven't used any of the money that I brang from home.
I just finished reading a chapter out of the Книга Мормона [BOM]. It took me quite a while, I'll tell you. I need to get an extension cord so I can listen to my CD player. I have no batteries left. Oh well. [Russian power outlets run at 220v, and America uses 110v so just plugging it in would fry the electronics without a converter/extension cord.].
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