GQ Pose in Russia...
So it was done...(14 April 2011)
Well sorry you didnt get my email yesterday the myldsmail wasnt working so we just get to email today. so here was the week. last week we had to help[ this guy to the hospital and the hospital was pretty creepy, there are people on gurnies everywhere long hallways of just rooms and people in them. and yeah i swear it could have been a horror movie place if the lights were dimmed and a flickering light at the end of the hall. So we were there for about 3 hours then we went back to the guys house. he is in a wheel chair so we would have to lift him everywhere and hold him while others move and fix the wheel chair, but its like 8 at nightafter we get to the house and they were like we need to feed you and we were like no we got to go and they wouldnt let us go, so we go in and sit down i am stuffed from the meal we had earlier though. then she is telling my comp what were are eating and turns out. . . it was the meet jello. when she said those words my heart and stomach sank! and she cuts me a slice and slapps it on the plate and its just jiggling i was not excited. and then we were told the first day we got here not to eat fish, well for the side we had fish, and also some buck wheat. and thing here is they dont give you a drink till after your meal and they give you tea. well so there it was staring me in the face. i take a little peice and decide ok i will try it. i put it in my mouth and this is how it was... imagine salty jello made out of cow hoofs and nose and meat somewhere in the middle of it and carrots and yeah. it was slimy, moist, and overall not good. i had to hurry and shove the fish and buckwheat in my mouth to get it down. and i was gagging when it first was in my mouth so yeah dont want to have that again. and we went back there 2 days ago and we took this guy for a walk, or i mean we pushed him around for 10 minutes and it takes hime 20 to get ready haha, and same thing oh we got to feed you. no its ok we really have to go. we go sit down and its the buckwheat and some more fish but this was just chopped up fish, not cooked or anything. i didnt try it i just had the buckwheat. and that was everything that was exciting this week no investigators and we get like 7 meetings a week and all with members pretty much. hope everything is good back at home i love you all. have a good week
Love jordan
Almost Behind Bars...(6 April 2011)
Hello everyone i hope you are all having a great week. so not to much happened this week. we dont have any investigators the guy i dropped the hammer on with the ping pong analogy doesnt want to meet with us anymore which is fine he wasnt progressing for 4 years. so what can you do? alright so after english club last week we were walking back to our apartment. we cross this busy street everytime we cross it but this time. . . my comp was almost hit by a car like he was maybe 6 inches away from being hit. and then once we get to the other side there were police men waiting for us, so they asked for our documents and they said usually you have to pay a fine for doing that. so they are looking at our documents and they didnt know what to think. so i am sitting there thinking like i am going to jail. i am going to go stay the night behind bars. i was kinda excited for it. and so i turn to my companion and say have you been to jail before? he says no. and i was like thats to bad i thought you were going to know what we should expect haha. he laughed. then they wanted us to sign something and we arent suppose to sign anything without our lawyers approval so we called her and she talked to the popo and said to sign it. so we did and yeah so we didnt have to go to jail but we got a citiation but we dont have to pay anything. another thing is that i went on a split with elder Goddard, he came here the same time i did, so we both dont know the language but we hap a meeting with this family that lived in new zealand so they know english. we play risk with them everyweek but his dad isnt a member, so me and goddard threw down the plan of salvation and he loved it and then the little kid was like what about reincarnation and i had the pictures all set out. i asked him, what about it, he said i want to be an animal, i said when do you get that choice? he said after i die. and i look at the pictures and was like this is gods plan his plan doesnt change, so you cant just take this picture and move it back to where we got our spirits and we understood it and changed his mind, it was really sweet. well that is it for this week hopw all of you have a good week. love you all.
Love jordan
Good Encounters...(30 March 2011)
Hello there again everyone, another week down and first transfers are down. i will be staying with my companion in the same area so that will be good we are hoping things will start rolling here pretty soon. this week we set a baptismal date for this one guy his whole family are members but he isnt. but he comes to church every sunday and is just a great guy. so we set a date for the 16th and hopeing he will recieve an answer if the book of mormon is true. but the only thing is he is addiced to . . . video games. . . he plays all day long and doesnt spend alot of time with his family so i am ready to lay the smack down on him too and say video games are only a temporary satisfaction and will only satisfy you for this life. . . but what do you have after this life? your family. . . but you playing video games is taking you away from your family and causing contention. so yeah we will wait and see how that goes. i have began to be very blunt with these russian people, they like to beat around the bush with everything so you got to be staright forward with them, but my comp is way to nice and has a hard time being blunt so i just do it and dont mind haha i get the point across. so yesterday we were handing out english club flyers and i stopped this guy and he started yelling at me and my comp starts talking with him and he is yelling and spitting everywhere and i am trying hard not to laugh because i just think its funny that people get so mad when they see the name tag so i am just like eh whatever and he was yelling like there is no god and what not so yeah we decided to just walk away. pretty funny. and also we had this chinese guy cook us some chinese food i told him to make it as spicy as he could! it wasnt to bad for me but my comp 2 other elders and peter (chinese man) were dying!! peter is like i am not going to cook for you again this is too hot!! my favorite saying of his is "YOU SO SUCK!!" so funny he is my favorite. So remember me telling you that my friend is going to be in the same mission as me the one i went to high school with? woodruff is his name, well he will be in my branch starting thursday so that will be fun to see him often. that is pretty much it this week, my language is coming along very slowly but yeah people we met with when i first got here we meet with again and the say i sound like a russian and it is getting alot better so yeah that makes me happy everytime i hear that, but i have a hard time understanding people still, they speak like lighting here, i dont know if you know how fast lightning is but its fast! i hope everyone is doing well and having a good week you are in my prayers and i love you all.
P.S. here are some pictures, my comp is the one i am at the table with, with mountain dew :)
Love jordan!
My Comp and I
Circus...(23 March 2011)
Hello everyone! Another week down and i have been in Russia for over a month now. so this past week has been pretty crazy. we found this one guy in the metro and he know like whee our church was and when we meet and what not so we met with them and pretty much they are missionaries for the Russian orthodox church. and at the end they decided to say a prayer and write down what the spirit told them and gave it to my comp. well it sounded like they were beat boxing when they were praying, one guy is holding down the beat saying something they others and chanting some other words and yeah pretty crazy. we went back again and all they like doing is bible bashing so we aren't meeting with them anymore. we also had a meeting with this investigator who has been meeting with the missionaries for 4 years. so this meeting went down and i pretty much laid a smack down on him. he speaks English. so first time i met with him i gave him mints to take instead of smoking. well he just ate the mints. next time we met we challenged him to read the book of Mormon every night, he did nothing. then the next time i challenged him to read to find answers to his questions and he was going to give the lesson the next time we met, also nothing happened. so this next meeting we were going to commit him to be baptised, he started making excuses. so we were downstairs of the church and we have ping pong tables there and i went and got a paddle and ball and said OK, this table is your life, this ball is the book of Mormon and commitments and stuff like that, then i said the paddle was him. so i told him that the missionaries came and gave the book of Mormon to him. so i put the ball on the table, then said OK the ball is in your court. and asked him what can you do with the ball. he goes on and says stuff for playing and then i was like OK but you need the paddle to make anything happen and work with the ball right? he said yeah. so i said last time we asked you to read so you could give the lesson, in this case what did you do with the ball. . . ? you left it there didn't you, you did nothing with the ball. and i was like you have to pick up the ball to do something with it. i was like how hard is it to pick up the ball? not hard at all, same thing with the book of Mormon, its not that hard to pick it up and do something with it. then he was like this book cant help me in my life, then he opens up and flips to 2 Nephi and says how has 2 Nephi helped you in your life?? and i said flip to chapter 32 and read it, so he flips there and starts reading and then wants to stop and i said no, keep reading you wanted to know. my heart is pounding with adrenaline and the spirit at this point. finishes reading and then i say OK right there, words from god telling you to pick up the ball and do something about it. read the book of Mormon and pray about it. and then i was like this chapter is like having god right here showing us how to hit the ball over the net and score. so i was like if someone is showing you how to be better you would do it right? he said yes. so i said then pick up the ball and do something with it, then i hit the ball over the net and the echo of the ball bouncing fills the room, he was left speechless. alright enough of that, some fun stuff! we had a culture night this week and we went to the circus!! so much fun!! there was a huge bear in a like tonka truck thing and tigers and leopards and it was alot of fun. well that was about it for the week. hope everything is going well for everyone. i love you all
Love Jordan
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