So today I started wearing my thermals, boots and coat
again. It's kind of weird because when I first came here I was wearing these
things and now here I am again.
This week was fun because we had a few events going on. On
Saturday we had a ton going on. Seryozha the Zone Leader's investigator got
baptized! He has changed so much from when I first met him. He is an example of
how the Gospel changes lives. His baptism was a ten-o-clock which went that we
had to be here at eight to start filling up the font as it takes about two
hours to fill up. We got here with the Zone Leaders and we realized that the
font was in desperate need of cleaning. So we vacuumed and moved it and then
started filling it. The problem was that because we took the time to clean it
we didn't have as much time to fill it up so when it came time to perform the
actual ordinance, the water wasn't quite up to the waist like it should but
more like upper-mid thigh. And due to that it was a little tough for Seryozha
to bend down low enough to get all of the way under the water and had to do it
again. But it worked out the second time. After that he was just glowing and
had the biggest smile on his face. After the baptism we as a ward were going to
watch the Saturday Morning session of General Conference. So during the time
before the baptism we were setting up chairs and the big projector screen. In
the room where the projector is we found that from the last event they did in
this building that they had not yet taken the sound equipment back to the
center Kiev ward building. At that point we got an idea. We set up the big
speakers and pulled out the mixer and everything so our movie night would be
even more of a movie night. And so General Conference and the movie both had
good A/V (Audio/Visual). It was a happy moment for me to do that kind of stuff
again and everything worked out perfectly. Between us watching General
Conference and watching Meet the Mormons for our Movie night we had English
Practice. So basically we didn't do anything else besides what was listed on
Saturday.
We had a miracle day on Thursday. While we were busy working
in the office at three different points random people off the street walked in
and wanted to learn more about the Temple and our Church and what we believe.
The coolest ones were Nadezhda and her son Roman who came in and said that they
tried to go into the Temple but someone told them that they couldn't go in
unless they were members and had a temple recommend. She asked after that,
"How does one become a member of your church?" And after that she was
tearing up when I started to explain everything and show her around and when I
showed her the Book of Mormon and the little video on temples that we have.
They were both so awesome. And later that day there was a guy named Valeri who
walked into the temple and we got a call from the front desk asking us to come
over and talk with him. He wanted to stay in the lobby and talk but we
explained to somewhat of the relief of the temple worker who was talking to him
that we try and keep the quietness of the temple there and keep it a holy place
but that we could talk in the church. We had a mini lesson with him but after
that we sensed that he really wasn't super interested but still a super nice
guy. On Sunday Valeri, Nadezhda and her son Roman and her other son who wasn't
there on Thursday Rustam all came to church. That was a huge miracle. We
couldn't stay the whole time because of other responsibilities but we had
another member who is super excited to "relive his missionary days"
to sit by them and become friends with them. Yeah, this week we saw lots of
cool things happen. People came to church that got to watch Some of General Conference
and see someone (Seryozha) get confirmed a member and receive the Holy Ghost.
Members brought their non-member friends and less-active friends to the Meet
the Mormons movie night and I got to mess around with expensive sound
equipment.
So a pretty successful week I might say.
Another cool thing was during Elder Rasband's talk on
Saturday he talked about this Granddaughter who was taking some kind of church
tour on the east coast who realized that she was going to be in her brother's
mission. They asked her brother's mission president if they could meet up but
even after he said no they by chance got to see each other for a second. We
were watching this with the Zone Leaders and Elder Lundquist shouts "I was
on that bus!". So apparently he was on that tour with that granddaughter
and then he told what he remembered form that. Then on the talk they showed a
picture from that event and I realized that I had a part in this to of sorts.
That missionary was my first Zone leader and then Second District leader in the
field! That was crazy.
Also, Elder Renlund showed some cool stuff at the beginning
of his talk. The first rocket he showed is called the Soyuz which is one of my
favorite ones. So yeah.
Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson
Seryozha's Baptism
Our set up for General Conference
This already after we cleaned up a bunch so it isn't the
whole thing. And behind all of the rows of chairs we had the couches from the
foyer for the old people.
I was excited to play with all of the equipment.
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