So first off, last Monday night was our last time with Alyona! :( She left for Russia Wednesday but luckily we took a lot of prime pictures together that night and we gave her info to the elders there so hopefully everything will be well with her and she'll be able to be baptized when she comes back! Alyona is seriously amazing I love her so much and she's so funny,already miss her! She's seriously just a prime human being.
We had Zone conference again this week and it was great like always! Sis Spicer and I were in charge of getting all the food and drinks for it so that was a little stressful but everything worked out perfectly and everyone loved it so that was good! I learned a lot and so many elders are leaving this week it's crazy. It was really sad but touching to hear the final testimonies of some elders I've served quite a while with. Definitely cried quite a bit.. :/ So powerful to hear their strong testimonies after serving the Lord for two years and hear how much the mission has changed them for the better. I'll miss them! And man, we're going to have so few missionaries here for a bit it's crazy.
We had some really awesome lessons with our investigators this week.We had a lesson about almost everything with Emmanuel but actually was really good and asked him if he wanted to set a goal date of being baptized and he said he would pray about the date and to know if everything we've taught is true because he said " I'm not going to do anything without praying about it first" YES Emmanuel knows how to do it guys haha, I was so happy I was like yes that is awesome, pray about it please, you'll get an answer!
Galina said that after our first lesson with her she said to God " if this is true, I'll get new contract at work" and sure enough the next day she got a new contract! And I asked her if she thinks that was her answer and she said yes! So awesome. Reminded me of Tony's story so I'm so excited for her.
When we were English contacting Saturday I asked this girl if she knows English and she said yes and she had a really good accent. I told her about our practice and she asked if we were from a church or something and she said that she had recently started reading the bible and she was so happy to have met me. She also said I wish i would have met you earlier because a few months ago her and her fiance ( from the USA ) were looking for a christian church here with people who speak English before her fiance had to go back to the states but she's interested in meeting with us and talking about why we're here.
Funniest thing EVER that happened this week! We were at Yulia, our recent convert's house with her perfect little girl Vika and when Yulia went to get a snack we were talking with Vika about the melon party we had and Sister Spicer said that she ate so much honey dew ( Deenya ) that she couldn't feel her tongue! (true story haha) but Vika just stared at her so we thought maybe she didn't understand. But then like 10 minutes later we're eating and then Vika loudly whispers" Mom! I have a secret! " And Yulia says something like secrets aren't good, you can tell everyone. But Vika's like :"Please! " ( keep in mind this is all in Russian in the cutest little Vika's voice " So Yulia leans in and Vika loudly whispers slowly.. "Cectpa Spicer.. ate so much melon.. that she couldn't feel her tongue! " And we all DIED. I don't know if my writing did it justice at all, you had to be there of course but it probably was the best, funniest. moment of my life.
So Sis Spicer and I were actually expecting we would probably be split up but we thought we had at least one more week together, probably one of the worst parts also I want to see the progress of our friends but I trust she'll continue the work well and actually I won't be going very far at all! I'm going back to Left Bank! Serving with Sister Busath! Y'all know more about that next week. I'm gonna miss my Spice :( these two transfers have some of the very best ever ! but I'm excited for new and cool adventures:)
Love,
Cectpa Horne
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