First of all, this has been the most interesting week I have ever experienced in my life.
One of our former investigators, Katya, we lost contact with her my 2nd transfer in Novosibirsk. We tried calling a few times just to see how she was doing, but no answer. Then I called one time, and she answered, and she wanted to meet! We met, and she told us how she believes the Book of Mormon is the word of God, and that Joseph Smith restored the church, but she still had reservations about baptism. We committed her to pray to know if baptism was the right thing to do, bear in mind that the last time we met with her, she purposely did NOT want to pray that the Book of Mormon was true and did NOT want to pray that Joseph Smith was a prophet. We met with her later and she had completely changed, and she now is getting ready to be baptized. I don't know if I will see her get baptized, because I don't know what the transfers are going to be like. Really all of it was a miracle. If any of you returned-missionaries ever watched The District, our last lesson with Katya was worthy to be on that film. Maybe they will make a The District 4: Siberia. Whoa, hold your Shopkas.
Second, the contact, Tolia, who we met in the metro, he is such a sweet guy, and we finally met him. He told us about how he had a lot of problems in his life, and that he was praying to God for direction in his life. He asked God to send him someone to guide him down the right path. That was in the metro, and he immediately turned..and BOT! (Voht, which means, "Behold!" in Russian) we were there! So this just shows how God is constantly working in our lives. He is constantly guiding us and guiding His children, so that they can hear the message of the Gospel. He was ready to accept the gospel. It is cool.
Then since it was Russian Christmas, we spent the day at the Webbs. We played games, ate food, and we also carved soap! I know that sounds weird, but you find a lot of fun things to do as a missionary. I carved a rose, and it smells like strawberries!.
Then on Sunday, it was kinda sad since none of our investigators came to church. This is one of the hardest commitments to give as a missionary, maybe except the Word of Wisdom and Law of Chastity. It is hard to ask people to travel over half an hour to come to church. One of the other Elders' investigators took a train for an hour to get to the church. That is crazy. That is the commitment that members should have about the church. There really shouldn't be any excuse to not go to church. Today, we went to this lady's apartment, and she has a studio to make things out of birch wood. A recent convert showed us, and I made this awesome belt buckle.
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| Belt buckle |
Elder Hoggan (The Siberian Messenger)
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