Hello everyone,
this week was a little crazy we have been dealing with alot of stuff this week. We are going to be doing a remodle in our apartment because we have the most ghetto apartment in the mission and alot of things are breaking or dont work so we have been having to deal with our landlady and making agreements with her and everything. So that has been a hassle and she has been cleaning out all of her stuff that she has in our apartment and she found an acordian which is from the war and she was just going to throw it away and i was like we will take that out later we dont have time right now. so when we got home that night i started playing it just for fun it was awesome. We had the other elders over for dinner on sunday and we had balloons at our apartment so we filled them up and when they were leaving we threw rthem off our balcony at them so it would land infront of them. it was so funny. they thought they were in war. it landed right infront of them so one turns back yelling and hides under our apartment. the other one was on the phone and he takes off running as fast as he could it was so funny. then the one that was hiding comes out laughing and sees us and takes off running too. it was way funny. we met this guy this last week he lives in the hospital and we go and read the book of mormon with him and he is awesome he is so thankful that we come to him and think of him. That is about everything for this week next saturday the sisters in our area will have a baptism and the girl asked me to baptise her so that will be awesome. everything else is good here. it is starting to get a little bit colder and it doesnt help that our windows let air seep in. so i wake up freezing in the mornings. hope everything is going good for everyone. i love you all
:) (September 14, 2011)
Hello there friends and family,
I hope all of you are doing good. i am doing great here in russia. this last week not to much happened we had troubles finding meetings because everyone tells us to call them on the weekends and so when we call them they dont feel like meeting with us or they just dont answer their phones so that was a little frustrating. it mad alot of time for contacting which was ok. we had a culture night on friday so our district got together and made some russian food and watch some russian cartoons they were pretty funny i liked them alot. good thing i have them on dvd so we are good. it was fun to watch them and see how their cartoons are. transfers are this week and i will be staying with my comp and in the same area. so it will be my forth transfer in this same area. which i am fine with i like this area alot. it is a city outside of moscow called zelenograd. A few nights ago we were doing a split and so we all had to run home and get clothes to change for the next day and the other elders told us to were our fur hats to meet them. so we did and people gave us so many weird looks it was so awesome! Everything is going great here and i hope everything is going great for everyone. i love you and thank you for everythng you all do.Love Jordan
Day of the City (September 7, 2011)
Hello There friends and family,
I hope all of you are doing good. this week was pretty crazy. so on sunday it was a holiday, day of the city. it was a huge deal up in the city i am in. It was way sweet though. so that day we were able to do that puppet show thing that we do at this like fair thing. it was way sweet. i didnt think it was going to be that good because there was so much awesome stuff going on and who would want to stand around and watch us do a puppet show about drugs and alcohol. but it turned out really good i was really surprised. we had alot of people sitting and watching and alot of kids were loving it. At the fair there was breakdancers and i wish i knew how to break dance. i want to learn so bad. i want to find someone who knows how to do it and have them teach me. I also bought some more of those big fury hats that people were here. i bought 2 more because i got a really good price on them. i got 2 wolf fur ones. one is all wolf fur and the other has leather on the top and fur on the front, ears and back. Its way sweet i am so excited to wear all of these in the winter. on sunday we had a person from the 70 come and speak in our ward and our area president. it was a really good meeting. probably because it was somewhat in english and i understood it fully haha. I had to translate for some of it but i realized translating is so hard for me. because russian makes sence in my head (somewhat) and its hard for me to translate things into english. because i learn russian like i look at something and know what it is in russian, i dont learn the translation so it is hard for me. but it was good. Another awesome thing was there is this 7 year old girl here in my branch, she is my favorite little girl. But i talk to her alder sister and she said that her little sister said that i am her favorite haha. well she came up to me on sunday and asked me if i would baptise her. i wish i could baptise her, but her dad is kindof the 2nd counselor so it would be way messed up if i did baptise her haha. and she draws me little pictures and gives them to me. so wrote me a note saying she wants to serve a mission in america. she is awesome. Also i gave another russian blessing to this old grandma. it was funny the sisters called us and was like can you come give a blessing. and we were like sure. so we went over there but the sisters werent there and i say so you need a blessing is that right? she was like yeah. ok what is it for? for health. and then i was like ok we can do that. and she was like do you need bread and water? and i was confused i said no, unless you need the sacrament and she said no. and so she was like so you dont need bread and water and we say no. it was way funny. that is my week hope all of you are having a good week. i love you all
Love Jordan
World famous in Russia (August 31, 2011)
Hello there friends and family,
So this week not to much happened, we found some new people to teach they are really nice. when we first met them we asked if we could help them in anyway and they said get us a million dollars. so this time we met with them i asked them if they got their million dollars and they said no, then they asked if we needed money and they were going to give us money. it was funny. So i think i said last week that we did the puppet show to help people know that smoking and drinking is bad. so we gave some pictures to our bishop and he put them online and now there is a story of us on the russian lds site. its latterdaysaints.ru we are front page news haha we thought that was kindof cool. We have been having a little more succuss with our new investigators and the ones we have been teaching and we are hoping that we can get them baptised soon so we will have to see. otherwise everything else is going good and we are having fun doing everything. hope everything is going good at home. i love you are and thank you for everything you do for me.
Love Jordan
Don't Smoke (August 25, 2011)
Dear Friends and Family,
Hope all of you are doing good. This week not to much exciting happend but we got to do service. and the service we did was a puppet show. The puppet show was to tell kids not to drink and smoke and what it does to you. We did it infront of a store and people would just walk by and watch if they wanted. It got so tiring to just sit there for about an hour and have your hands up holding up puppets and moving them around. it was alot of fun though. we had some guy walk by start yelling at us saying what we were doing was wrong. but he was talking about us being missionaries, but we didnt have our tags on for that reason. then we watched this family stay and watch us perform the show and we are talking about how smoking is bad and everything, and it hurts kids, then right after the show finishes she lights one up right infront of us and her baby in a stroller. Then one missionary was like she really understood what she just watched. That was the biggest highlight of our week. we have been trying to find more meetings to just help our russian. its been hard at times because we both arent the best at russian so when he doesnt know what is going on he looks to me and i should know what is going on haha. it has been helping alot though, i have been having to make phone calls and talk to people. So hopefully russian comes along quicker. Yesterday me and hayes. . . my comp. . . almost set a baptismal date with this guy but he just wanted to listen to his nephews band so it was just not the best enviornment so we are hoping he comes to church and we can ask him then. well i hope everything is going great for everyone. i love you all.Love Jordan
Worms?! (August 17, 2011)
Hello there friends and family,
this week was a good week, a few crazy things happened but it has been alot of fun. but here is a story for you. so yesterday us four elders in this area got invited over to this grandmas place for lunch. so we all go over there and she plays the guitar and is this old lady that just loves everything. so we go over there and ask her how she is doing and she talks for 30 minutes haha we just sat there. thene she was like ok lets eat i went and got some fresh food because i knew you would be coming. so it was just bread and salami which wasnt bad. then we had some tea and then here comes the good part. she brings out these candies and was like these are my favorites i bought them 2 days ago. so i take one and eat it, my comp takes one and eats it and then one of the other elders opens his up and a little worm crawls out of it and it just crawling on it, and he shows it to all of us, the greenie in our area startes freaking out. i just start laughing way hard, my comp is laughing which just makes me laugh harder, then the greenie starts laughing because we are laughing and he starts crying because he is laughing so hard. i felt like i was going to throw up because i am trying to hold back my laughing, i am sitting there squeeking and trying not to make noises. i couldnt elp it though, it was so funny. luckly the lady has a hard time hearing and was to deep in telling a story to palmer ( the kid with the worm candy) and he just sat there and listened to her while we are all crying and laughing so hard. then she goes to grab a picture and the greenie is like where is the worm and i just starting looking around and am like ah its by your leg its on you and he about wet himself haha then i start laughing harder and you all know me that when i laugh i cant just stop i just keep laughing. i was laughing for about an hour at this meeting. oh man then we called the doctor and like what do we do if we ate worms? he was like drink some coke. so we went and found a cold coke. and downed it. then last night we both felt so sick we dont know what it is if it is worms or not. so yeah who knows if i got worms or not i might be getting the bomb pill where it just cleans you out. That is probably the highlight of the week everything else is going good i am having to speak alot more russian which is helping alot. hope all of you are doing good.
Love you
I killed a Spider (August 11, 2011)
Hello there friends and family, i hope you had a good week!! i had a pretty crazy week. so we had transfers last thursday and i am staying in the same area and am with a new companion, his name is elder cody hayes. He is awesome me and him are alike in alot of ways so we have been having alot of fun even though we havent been together that much this week. So transfers were on thursday, on friday he had to go to moscow to stay the night because he had his visa trip on saturday, then he got back to our town during church then sunday we had a meeting with the stake president and after that we all went down to moscow together because I had a visa trip on tuesday but Elder goddard had an investigator that he wanted me to meet. so we decided to make a split and i was with goddard and wininger, my mtc group. it was so much fun!! i miss them and i want to serve with them. but it was fun being with them for a couple days. Then we went to kiev on tuesday and on the plane goddard was sitting next to these 2 girls who were on the tv show survivor. it was way funny, because they lost and they were on their way home. then we were going to the temple in kiev but traffic was way bad and we missed the session so we were able to baptisms and confermations, but the sweet thing was that goddard wininger and i all got to do everything ourselves so wininger confermed and baptised me i confermed and baptised goddard and goddard did wininger. but what was even more sweet is that we got to do it all in russian! it was so much fun. And when i was in the water i just wanted to swim and stay in the water and not get out. it was a way good experience. then we went and walked around the center of kiev a little bit and that was cool to just walk around. Everything is coming along with russian now that i have to do verything and i havent really had to do much speaking in russian. but now he turns to me when he doesnt understand and i need to know what they are saying. so i am excited to work with him. it will be alot of fun. Well I hope all of you have a good week i love you
Love Jordan
Crazy Week (July 27, 2011)
Hello there friends and family, i hope all of you had a great week. so this week was just all over the place. we had to go into moscow alot and that took up like all of our money going back and forth from moscow to our town and then to moscow and having to buy metro tickets and doing all that kind of stuff and its not over we have to go to moscow 2 or 3 more times this next week but transfers are next week so who knows maybe i will be sent back into moscow and i wont have to do all this traveling. But i was also on some splits for half the week to. since my comp is district leader he has to go on a split with the other elders once a transfer so i went with a kid who is about to finish his mission next week. we had alot of fun. we were talking to this one investigator and he was just making excuses about everything we say and the arguement was getting intense because he wouldnt let us speak and would make up dumb metaphores that had no relevance and what not so we were just ok we are done, everyone is getting a little to heated so we had to stop talking about gosple stuff. Then something awesome, when i went on a different split we had to stay at their house and i slept on a pull-out chair! yes chair not a couch a chair. its wasnt comfortable but i just thought it was cool. So on a different split i was in the international branch so its all the africans that speak english. these black people are so awesome i love them. they are so amazing because they take in everything and at the end of one meeting this guy just started sharing his testimony and telling us how thankful he is for us saving him and making his life have meening again it was so awesome. it is way hot here and it is hard not to go swimming. everyone just walks around in like swim suits or with their shirts off and alot of people just go swimming where ever they want. it is so tempting to go just jump in and tell my comp that i slipped because i want to cool off haha. well i hope all of you have a good week.
Love Jordan
Lock Down (July 20, 2011)
Hello there family and friends,
So last week i forgot to tell you all about what happened and thats pretty much why i titled it psycho but whatever. so last week during study we got a call for the other elders in our district saying they are heading out of our area becasue they were told to leave. Well here is why. There was a car bombing right next to their apartment! the elders got it on film and so they were telling us about it and we were like why are only you guys leaving we live 20 mins away. so then we were told to stay inside all day. so thats what we did until we needed to go to moscow. I stayed inside and played chess for 4 hours. it was pretty boring. and it was way hard to study after they told us there was a bomb but eh. but everything was ok and no body was hurt. crazy things just happen. I had a drunk guy grab my shirt where my tag is and so i had to shove him away from me and then when i walked away he looked at me and gave me the thumbs up. pretty funny. well it is way hot here now in the good ole russia and very humid. we walk outside and we are already sweating. in the morning we take cold showers because we were sweating all night. well the work is tough but thats how it should be. and everything is going good. i hope all of you are doing good and are safe i love you all.
Love Jordan
No comments:
Post a Comment