A month done! Woooohoooo! Just got another 5 weeks but we’re getting there!
WEDNESDAY: We got to go to the temple, finally. The temple has been closed for the past couple of weeks, but we got to go through it this past week! We also ordered mission shirts and we got them in today! I’ll attach a picture at the bottom, but it’s a shirt that says Russia, Novosibirsk mission on it. We also got everyone to sign a little card for Сестра Maccabees birthday!
THURSDAY: Honestly, I was mostly really excited about exercise time on Thursday. I’ve been running with Sister Gehring (who is going to Georgia the country), and we did some interval runs and an ab workout. It’s good to have someone who keeps me accountable! We had TRC (training resource center) on Thursday, and we had a nice little lesson on prayer. We taught a student at BYU who recently got back from his mission in Novosibirsk, and a cute young couple; he is from Utah and had served in Kazakhstan, and she is from Moscow. Both of the lessons went really well! I’m finally starting to understand what’s happening in them a little more. It’s so crazy that I’ve only been studying Russian for a month, but I can already kind of understand!
FRIDAY: Waking up Friday morning was strange. I had weird dreams throughout the night and kept waking up, but I couldn’t remember anything in the morning. Most of the girls in my hallway had similar stories, and we were wondering if it was because they cleaned the carpet the day before. It was very weird.
SATURDAY: Lots of funny things happened on Saturday, but the one that stands out most was because of a glove. Sister Eckery has these gloves, and sometimes when we get back to the room, she’ll throw them at me or at Sister Murton, or whoever. On this particular day, Sister Murton got ahold of Sister Eckery’s gloves. They were in the bathroom and I was in the room across the hall. All the sudden. I hear an ear piercing SHRIEK. I was very confused, but I didn’t investigate, I just hoped that no one was dying. Turns out, Sister Murton threw the gloves into a stall and they ALMOST landed in the toilet. It’s all good, there were no casualties.
SUNDAY: Wow, Sunday was a day. I bore my testimony and cried, which was actually very upsetting. These past 4 weeks I’ve really been trying not to cry over anything, and then I stand up at the podium on Sunday and squeak my way through my testimony... yay. But I really felt that spirit, and standing up there, I knew that this is where I need to be, and that people are counting on me being here so I can find them and bring them closer to Christ. Also it was my dads birthday!! I couldn’t email or anything but happy birthday dad!
MONDAY: Sister Maccabee got some upsetting news on Monday. I won’t go into details, but it brought us a lot closer together. I was able to comfort her, and we just talked. Sometimes, as missionaries, it’s hard to just talk because we are devoting all our time to the Lord. But, we are still people, and it’s nice to be reminded of that sometimes.
TUESDAY: Tuesday was a full on adventure! A few weeks ago, I mentioned something about passport issues. It’s complicated, but on Tuesday сестра Maccabee and I got to leave campus in a CAR and drive a full 10 MINUTES away to a post office! I saw the real world! We talked to real people! I wanted to run away and go get a burger so bad but I didn’t! Anyways, the passport stuff is all good now (hopefully) so Russia, here I come in another 5 weeks! I also wanted to mention choir on Tuesday. This week is President Martino and his wife (the MTC president)’s last week at the MTC so we sang This is the Christ. For those of you who have never heard it, listen to it. It is one of my new favorite songs. It is just so powerful, and raw. This IS the Christ.
That is pretty much all for this week. I love you all!!
Сестра Джонз
1. My district at the temple:)
2. Сестра Maccabee and I
3. Sister Murton, Sister Eckery, Sister Gehring, me, sister Maccabee, and Sister Bowers
4. My Russia shirt (that I am currently wearing) !!
5. We have weekly cleaning checks for our rooms, and we FINALLY got a commendable rating!
6 & 7. A peek into our Russian classroom, these are some of the phrases we learned/memorized this week.
8. Сестра Maccabee and I in a CAR going to the POST OFFICE!
