What the heck? How'd the Lamanites get here?

Hi. Guess what? I've been in Russia for a whole month! What the wild nut? Crazy talk. This month has flown by. There's only two weeks left of my first transfer. This week we started English contacting for our English club. I love English contacting. I love it so much because people are so much nicer. They smile and say thank you. It's such a nice break from so many no's. We didn't teach our investigator Olga Red Coat because she figged us. In Russia, people fig all the time. They have a hand sign for figging because people don't show up to things all the time. So we didn't get to have a lesson with her but we hope to this week. We just had lessons with all of the babushkas this week. I love them all so much. They're so sweet and I love talking to them even if they make us do strange things like trim their mustaches and clip their fingernails. This week we got to go be pioneers in this city called Dzerjinx. There's only one set of Elders there and Sisters have never contacted there before. We were the first ones ever! Cool, huh? We were expecting it to be this land of milk and honey and that everyone would just be like, "Yes, of course I want to learn more about your church you darling girls you." Hahahah. Nope. We got off the bus and we tried to talk to someone and they did an x with their fingers. Hahaha. So we were kind of discouraged but we kept on talking to people and trying to share a message about the Book of Mormon. And you know, Heavenly Father is just the coolest. We had been trying to talk to people for like two hours and no one would stop. Then the next person we tried to talk to stopped. Her name is Tanya and she's darling. She's probably 17 or 18. But here's the miracle: She comes to Nizhniy everyday for school. Like what the heck? How cool is that? Dzerjinx is about an hour and a half away from us and we found someone who comes to Nizhniy every single day. Seriously, the biggest miracle. She seems a little skeptical about the Church but she's way interested in English club so that's a good starter. We hope to meet with her this week sometime. So in Nizhniy we have the walking street that I have mentioned before. There are all sorts of street performers and for the last few weeks there have been these Native Americans in full feather costume playing flutes and singing. We were like, "What the heck? How'd the lamanites get here?" But we were walking by them and they came up to us and flashed us their garments and said, "We members!" And they came to Church on Sunday. Apparently they are from Ecuador and they're doing a tour of Russia with their Native Music band. It's the coolest. And we had some other people from Africa at church too. Russia loves to throw everyone together. Anyways, that's my week! I love Russia more and more everyday. I love you all and hope you are doing so well. Have the greatest of weeks!

Love, Cectpa Harris

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