This is going to be a shorter letter this week because I have to print out a lot of stuff for Zone Leader stuff and also my voting ballot things. So bear with me!
Anyway, this week kind of took us out of our area for a long time. We were in Saint Petersburg for a majority of this week. I am really tired of taking busses and trains to and fro and I just want to stay and focus in my area haha. So we didn't have too much time in our area unfortunately. But with the few days that we had, we have found 2 new investigators, and got our new convert who was falling into less-activity, Byacheslav, back to church and he fulfilled his calling yesterday! He came early to missionary coordination meeting yesterday and helped us coordinate our missionary work with the branch here in Pskov. He also taught gospel principles and did an awesome job. He was in a situation with someone that was forcing him not to go to church, so he didn't for a few weeks. But he decided that he needed to go and he came back. It was awesome! I was way happy.
Some other news about Pskov. We just got sister missionaries here! Finally! For a long period of time, like 3 or 4 years it has been just one set of elders in this little city. But this past year, there have been two sets of Elders here. And then this week, we moved out one of the companionships of Elders and moved in a companionship of Sisters into their new apartment. It's Sister Schlant and Sister Kafalas. We have given them a lot to work with since there is a lot of women in the branch who Elders can't meet with without the help of another male. So came in to a full area and they are excited.
On Friday, when we were all moving back down to Pskov, we ran into those kind of "everything that could go wrong went wrong" kind of days. Me and my new companion, Elder Sherman, the two new sisters, and the Senior Couple here all woke up early at 5 to take a train back. We were supposed to knock on the sisters apartment door and help them move their suitcases to the train station. But we got there, but no one was picking up, and it turned out that they were in another apartment closer to where we came from. So we sent the Senior Couple, Elder and Sister Gardiner to go buy tickets, while we helped the sisters. We get there at their place at around 6:20 and they had accidentally left a suitcase in an elevator before the door closed and they couldn't get it. So we had to retrieve it and left around 6:30. Our train was to leave at 7:25. So we tried to race to the metro with these HEAVIER THAN WHALES suitcases that they had. I don't care what someone can pack that causes such a bag to weight that much. It didn't help that one of them wasn't a rolly suitcase and had to be attatched to a smaller one. We finally get to the metro at about 6:45 and it usually takes about 40 minutes to get to the stop we need to get to the train station. We got there at 7:10 just in time. The Gardiners has saved spots so it was fine. But I accidentally tooked the cramped sit with no leg room. Whoops. But we finally get there to Pskov. We leave the train and then the train leaves and Sister Gardiner realizes that she left her scriptures on the train but it left already. She goes and runs after it, but it was too late. Her husband, Elder Gardiner kind of just stood there, but we got him on a taxi and told the taxi driver to wait. So Elder Sherman and I went to go find Sister Gardiner and try to arrange with the Train Station about the last item, but we couldn't find her. After about 5 minutes walking back and forth in side the station, we found her and somehow she took care of it and they told her to come back at 5. She doesn't know Russian, but somehow she got that all figured out. It was kind of a miracle. So we get back to find the taxi, but the taxi driver left.... And we needed to get the Gardiners to the Sisters apartment to unlock it, but Sister Gardner had the keys. We finally just get on a bus and leave to help the sisters move and Elder Gardiner had to wait inside the stairwell for about 30 minutes. It was rather fun... haha. The awsome thing is that Sister Gardiner got her scriptures back! She came back to the train station and found them right where she left them. So the story ends well, but it was a very very tiring day haha.
The two new investigators we found this week is this man and his wife, Vladimir and Irina. We had talked to Vladimir right before we left on Tuesday to SPB and he wants to quit drinking and change his life. We stopped by on Saturday but they weren't home, so we decided to stop by the address last night and had a wonderful lesson. It really felt like that we started out the lesson really strongly with a strong prayer in the beginning. Vladimir was crying when we spoke about Christ and his Atonement. Those were the highlights of this week.
I am really excited to be working with Elder Sherman this transfer and we are already seeing some cool stuff!
I gotta go!!
Love,
Elder Tekulve
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