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.
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6/11/12
June 11, 1997 - Wednesday
Actually it's 40 min. after midnight on the 10th, well 11th. Today showed me just not to worry about things. We went to district meeting and I didn't get any mail. It's the first week I've never gotten mail. I was pretty pissed and I had a really bad mood. Which was really bad because we had a D with Лариса [Larissa]. So I was sitting on the metro and fuming when after praying for God to "take these bad feelings from my heart." After I prayed I was sitting a couple of seats to my left. This old couple were sitting across from me and they smiled at the baby. Well seeing this weathered old Russian man's face brighten up really touched me and I couldn't be mad or depressed anymore. It's weird how the Lord answers prayers.
Then while at the D with Лариса, which went really well, I really felt the Spirit and she did too. It was cool. She committed again to pray for answers about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. I explain[ed] why it was important for her to know. Then she'd know for sure about what we're talking is true. I think I got her to see a little about how it would help her.
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| Sister Vera Yagadkina, Nadia Yagadkina, Sveta Borisova & Sasha - evidently the two girls not too happy with me taking a picture. |
Then we came home and sweated in the apartment while eating dinner. Man it is so humid lately. So hot. Getting to the point of where I started about things always working out. Last night we got told that there would be this New Era thing. A reporter was coming - we were supposed to set up a FHE. Well Elder Reagan said to meet the reporters or Ст. Gammon & them in the metro at a little before 7. The Family Home Evening was to be at 7 over at Ягодкина's [Yagadkina's] house. Well I worry a lot about it - we were suppose to plan a game and Саша [Sasha] planned a spiritual thought. So we worried and waited in the metro until about 7:10 and then just decided to go to the place. So the whole ride to the Ягодкина's I was fuming - dang Gammon etc. because I was afraid the night would flop. Well we got there at 7:30 - a half an hour late - expecting to have to tell them that the reported hadn't showed. We even had a game planned and we brought drinks. So we showed up and 'lo and behold' the reporter and Сты. Gammon & Ludwig are already there with the reporter.
It turned out all cool and the kids - Саша [Sasha], Света [Sveta], & Надя [Nadia - hahaha kids - Sveta might have been 16, but Nadia was 19, and Sasha was 18 or 19 as well. A note about Sveta's name - Svet is light, and if I translated it into English I would call her Lucy??? Lucent - glowing with light, Lucid - shining or glowing, Lucifer (not the best example) - son of the morning etc. So...the the kids] gave some really good answers to his questions. It was really cool. Then after the reporter and the future A.P.s [Assistants to the Presidents - future because we had learned that the mission was going to split on July 1st, and Сты. Gammon & Ludwig were going to be the new president's assistants when he got here.] left we drank the pop and ate this cake Сестра Ягодкина [Sister Yagadkina] made for us. It was pretty good. Then we went to the Red Square and hung out with [Ст.] Woolverton and ate at McDonald's and came home late.
[Post-Journal Chat - OK folks do you like how use the brackets[ ] right after the Russian word and give what it sounds like or translates to and sometiems it goes a little long, or would you rather that I did a footnote kind of thing? or monkeys?]
5/22/11
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?
3/25/11
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
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
3/22/11
March 13, 1997 - Thursday
Tonight sucks for some reason. Today I almost had my problem, but I held off at the last minute. We went over and had a D with Малу [Malout], that was good. Eric cancelled on us and so we came home and ate, then left to mail some stuff at the почта [pochta - post office].
[mid journal chat - Eric is another of the Africans that we are teaching the discussions to. He spoke English, french and an african dialect...swahili maybe? Virginia, Eric or another friend would help us with Malout, because he didn't speak English, or Russian very well - only the african dialect and french.]
Then we headed an hour early to English Class so we could practice a song that we are going to sing in church Sunday. I hate singing. I F(^^&%ing suck. That's probably why I'm in a bad mood. That and it was in Russian - I'm self concious about Russian and singing and Ст. Woolverton was teasing me a little.
Then I went into English Class and talked to Sharieef for an hour. It's hard to talk to him because he is learning a lot and his life is pretty bleak right now. No job etc. Then Dennis said some comment that Elder Burghardt made about me being pathalogical. And my converter [between 110 volt/America - and 220 volt/Russia] is not working. I lent it to Ст. Larsen and now it doesn't work. Freak am I in need of some serious prayer. Okay, I just read an article in the Ensign - a balm to my troubled soul. night
[mid journal chat - Eric is another of the Africans that we are teaching the discussions to. He spoke English, french and an african dialect...swahili maybe? Virginia, Eric or another friend would help us with Malout, because he didn't speak English, or Russian very well - only the african dialect and french.]
Then we headed an hour early to English Class so we could practice a song that we are going to sing in church Sunday. I hate singing. I F(^^&%ing suck. That's probably why I'm in a bad mood. That and it was in Russian - I'm self concious about Russian and singing and Ст. Woolverton was teasing me a little.
Then I went into English Class and talked to Sharieef for an hour. It's hard to talk to him because he is learning a lot and his life is pretty bleak right now. No job etc. Then Dennis said some comment that Elder Burghardt made about me being pathalogical. And my converter [between 110 volt/America - and 220 volt/Russia] is not working. I lent it to Ст. Larsen and now it doesn't work. Freak am I in need of some serious prayer. Okay, I just read an article in the Ensign - a balm to my troubled soul. night
3/4/11
March 4, 1997 - Tuesday
It's actually 1:10am on the 5th, but it's still Tuesday night. Today was Ст. Paige's last full day in the country. He leaves tomorrow - the big freak. What a lucky punk. I hurt my leg again today. I jumped an ice patch and went down. I laid there for a while, but had to leave because of everyone else kept walking.
I nabbed a lot of tapes and a CD from Ст. Paige. Also today in the Announcements was the President [Jarvis] saying that we shouldn't listen to screw music. And also if we bought any CDs at about $3 - $4, then it is probably pirated and we shouldn't get it. I haven't decided what to do yet. He didn't say not to buy any etc. but he encouraged us not to.
[Mid Post Chat- Can you believe the rationalizing going on here?? You can definitely tell that I'm in with a pretty trunky crowd still.]
I got a letter from Ст. Kindred in Rostov and he said that he was very busy and had a huge area. I also received my deodorant and a letter & pen from Gib. It's a pretty cool pen - it says "Elder Walter Dale Herrick Russia Moscow Mission" engraved on it. I also received another letter from Gib and he told me he was beat up about 2 weeks ago. Then just recently sprained his ankle and had to say in bed for 2 days. He seems pretty fired up about everything and thinks he will be a senior [companion] pretty soon. He has the language down and everything. He asked me if I was fluent yet. Hah!!
Then I got a letter from mom that says everything I heard in a fax I got two weeks ago. Kind of silly. I also got my deodorant though. I bought some here but it is only deodorant and it wears off pretty fast. She sent me some deodorant/anti-perspirant - musk scented.
Well I have three more lines to go until I can sleep [until the end of the page in my journal], and I am going to write a run-on sentence, until I end, bye.
I nabbed a lot of tapes and a CD from Ст. Paige. Also today in the Announcements was the President [Jarvis] saying that we shouldn't listen to screw music. And also if we bought any CDs at about $3 - $4, then it is probably pirated and we shouldn't get it. I haven't decided what to do yet. He didn't say not to buy any etc. but he encouraged us not to.
[Mid Post Chat- Can you believe the rationalizing going on here?? You can definitely tell that I'm in with a pretty trunky crowd still.]
I got a letter from Ст. Kindred in Rostov and he said that he was very busy and had a huge area. I also received my deodorant and a letter & pen from Gib. It's a pretty cool pen - it says "Elder Walter Dale Herrick Russia Moscow Mission" engraved on it. I also received another letter from Gib and he told me he was beat up about 2 weeks ago. Then just recently sprained his ankle and had to say in bed for 2 days. He seems pretty fired up about everything and thinks he will be a senior [companion] pretty soon. He has the language down and everything. He asked me if I was fluent yet. Hah!!
Then I got a letter from mom that says everything I heard in a fax I got two weeks ago. Kind of silly. I also got my deodorant though. I bought some here but it is only deodorant and it wears off pretty fast. She sent me some deodorant/anti-perspirant - musk scented.
Well I have three more lines to go until I can sleep [until the end of the page in my journal], and I am going to write a run-on sentence, until I end, bye.
2/25/11
February 19, 1997 - Wednesday
We have a pretty full day even if it was a P-Day. We went to a Polio factory [I really have know idea what I'm talking about here?? lol] and then went and got our mail at the office. I got 2 e-mails and 3 letters. Or maybe just one. The Family and then one from Doug Sterr. So that one or two was cool.
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