Mission Letter #2

Well, we got letter #2 from Scott yesterday.  It didn't come as early in the day as the first one, but it was complete with pictures!

(here's some highlights!)

 

September 12, 2012

Everyone!

So if you guys remember my letter last week, a majority of it was about how amazing my district is. Well guess what?

It no longer exists!!

 

For some reason unknown to me they split up only our district. So me and my comp aren't in the same district/zone/ward/classes as any of the friends we made the first week! Honestly it was so hard at first, I couldn't think about it because it made me so upset. But I will be fine. We still hang out with our old zone as often as we can. We went to the temple with them this morning and we have our same roommates. (kyle litzenberger and tyler jones)

  Since we were new to the ward me and my companion were asked to give our testimonies in sacrament meeting. That went well. Our new 'Mission President' was president of the Moscow mission for a while.

Russian is coming along well. I feel like I'm the only person here that is not stressed about learning the language. So I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. We can now teach the basic lessons, but we need a script for the most part. One other thing that stinks about our district split is that we don't have the same teachers we had before. Our old ones were the greatest. One was that investigator I was telling you about from Ukraine and the other 2 go to BYU.

All the 'older' missionaries who are going to Russia are really cool and they help me out a lot with learning the language.  

Oh, I think I mentioned our 1st 'investigator' in my last letter. He is honestly one of the coolest people I've ever met. He grew up in Ukraine and was converted when he was 20 then went on a mission to Moscow. When he was taking the discussions he would hang out with the missionaries all the time. And he said it took over 100 lessons before he was baptized! 

  

 

 Dad asked if I knew 2 sisters (literal) that are both going to Russia (two different missions). Yes I know both of them! One is (was) in my district, she is the missionary me and my companion gave the priesthood blessing. And she is doing fine now. But apparently they said she was going to have to have surgery on her throat or something, but that was before we gave her the blessing.

Well sorry these letters aren't very organized; my brain is on another level at the moment. I blame it on the Russian.  I love you all and miss you! Thanks for your prayers.

 -старйшинa Scott Allen

I wonder how many statues Scott will ride in Russia?!

 

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Scott's roommate from BYU was in the MTC with Scott two weeks.  Elder Jarvis left Monday for Chile.  Scott says he sees lots of Mt. View missionaries, which is always fun.  He asked about cousin Marcus's call--which should come this week!!  It would be great if they could be in the MTC together for a time

We love his letters!  Thank you for your prayers and support for him! 

Love, 

Lori