This week, we spent most of our time moving. We have moved to a different apartment and we still are not finished moving the mission's stuff over to our new apartment. We have been living in this apartment for 3 days without beds. (We are moving the beds today). I felt like most of this week was packing and cleaning and moving around in the snow. We also went to Novgorod this week (4 hours east of Pskov). Novgorod is part of my zone here. We had to do a Zone Training again for this month. Once we got back from Novgorod, all of the snow has melted here in Pskov, so now it is a muddy mess all over the place.. yay! :)
Well that was the bulk of this week to be honest, but some very cool stuff happened this week. First off, we finally met with Karl this week. We taught him the message of the Restoration of which he asked a very golden question "How do you know that Joseph Smith really did see God the Father and Jesus Christ?" That testimony came through testing the waters. I read the fruit of the Restoration, the Book of Mormon, with a promise that if you read, ponder, and pray with a sincere heart and real intent, having Faith in Christ, that God will answer. "By the fruits ye shall know them". Karl really understands incredibly well and know he has a desire to read the Fruit of the Restoation to really know for himself if Joseph Smith really was a prophet and that this it the Kingdom of God once again established on the Earth.
Well anyway, we also had a great lesson with our investigator Stepan. He has been slowly doing progress and this last weekend we did something called Operation Knockout. We got a few of our members in our branch together on our meeting with Stepan and did a testimony meeting how they all came to know the truth of this message, this Church, and the Book of Mormon. It was a powerful lesson we had with Stepan and we set a baptismal date with for next Saturday which he hasn't fully said yes, but he will pray and ponder before that date. We are planned to make as much contact as we can so he can be ready by this Saturday. He honestly is ready, he just needs to have the desire to be baptized. He comes to church every week.
Also! We cut some more firewood this week at our less active brother's old dacha. Cutting wood is incredibly fun for some reason. I am a big fan! On our way back, we were planning to take a small bus back to Pskov (it is 30 minutes away), but we missed the bus, so we did the nice hitchhiking trick back to Pskov. It was my first time! Now don't worry because the guy was incredibly nice, allbeit that every other word he said was some form of a Russian cuss word. But when we left, the neighbors asked the less-active brother about those two men cutting wood. He told them that we were missionaries and now his neighbors are really interested in meeting us and hearing our message. It's a potential family of four!! I really can't wait to meet them, so I hope that it works out.
Things are really looking up here in Pskov with a lot of cool miracles happening right and left. I love being a missionary and sharing this message with everyone.
The Church is True!
Love,
Elder Tekulve
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