Me and Elder Thompson have an awesome companionship. We both like to be obedient and work really hard, but enjoy ourselves while we do it. Here's a little description of each person and what's going on.
Katya- We've taught her the 1st 3 lessons, and she has a ton of potential. The Spirit is so strong when we teach her. During our last lesson, I testified to her that what she was feeling was the Holy Ghost, testifying to her that what we were teaching is true. And while I did that, I spoke better Russian than I'm capable of, too fast and with too few mistakes for me to do. It was an amazing experience. She moved out of her parent’s house, which will be a really good thing if the friend she moved in with isn't a boy. She just needs to keep reading and praying, and come to church again.
Kereal- the one who reminds me of Jared. He's just a cool, nice young kid. Anya and his grandparents are members but his parents aren't, and we don't think they are anti though. We just want him to be a missionary one day. He's had the first three lessons, and is ready to be baptized.
Vuta- She is very accepting and listens intently when we teach her, but I don't know how strong her interest is. She didn't do her reading when we followed up and taught her the 2nd lesson, but we emphasized the importance of reading and praying alot when we taught her. We'll find out how comitted she is when we teach her lesson 3.
Andre- We finally met with him last night, and he's still awesome, but he just needs to commit. He's still working on quitting smoking and waiting to get married. He needs to quit waiting and just do it. We want to help him more and get over smoking, but he's always working and never has time to meet with us. Last night was a good start to that though, so hopefully it keeps going that way.
Mike- We teach him in English because that's why he started talking to the missionaries, and he speaks English almost fluently. We talked to him in a park one day for about an hour about the Book of Mormon, and he had some of the best questions I had ever heard. He's a smart, nice guy who could be a great priesthood holder. We really want to get him to church next week, but he's already reading the Book of Mormon.
That's about it for now, It's getting way hot. This week is supposed to get into the low 90's with 100% humidity. I like riding on hot busses that smell like sweaty Ukranian men in my church clothes. And the people here think it makes you sick if you drink cold water when it's hot out, so they give you nasty, warm, gas water or hot tea when you visit. It's great. Well, hope all is safe and well, we're loving life here.
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