Four months.

Hey there! Guess what? I've officially been on a mission for four months. Crazy, huh? I don't even know where the time has gone, it's going by so quick. Anyways, this week was good! We started off the week with Family Home Evening which is held at the Senior Couple's house. I cannot even begin to explain to you how important senior couples are to a mission. They are complete life savers and I am so grateful for them. They make the biggest difference to the young missionaries. Anyways, we had two people from English Group who came to Family Night! It was so great. What wasn't as great is that we played Bingo but it was like Church Bingo so it had like, "Word of Wisdom" and "Resurrection" on it. The girls from English club were like, "....the what? What is this place?" Hahah. It was the awkwardest. But luckily, a girl from the ward, Nastia was here and she is preparing to go on a mission herself so she was able to kind of take over and really explain what we believed. Ward members are so crucial to missionary work. Here, we are really pushing for more member involvement because we just cannot do it alone. So I encourage all of you at home to get as involved with the missionaries as possible. Find people for them to teach, feed them dinner, offer them rides. Being a missionary is such a blessing but it is a challenge too and the ward members can make all the difference. Anyways, we are getting more and more support from the ward which is so great. We even had a ward council meeting which hasn't happened for so long, definitely a step in the right direction. Speaking of church, guess who had to speak in Sacrament meeting yesterday? Yup, this girl. I spoke about friendship, it was actually perfect because I got to talk about all my friends on missions and at home. And how I miss them but I'm excited to make friends with the ward too. I was way nervous because we have a new zone leader and he's actually Russian but speaks fluent English too. I'm always afraid to speak Russian in front of him, but before I spoke he went over my talk with me and helped me fix a few grammatical errors, so it was actually nice to have him there. Now, to my favorite part of the week... English! Haha. We've been working on making a more effective program this week. The one we have is based off of the Novosibirsk mission's program but the thing is they are out in the middle of Siberia where no one speaks English, here so many do. So we've been adapting it to make it more applicable here. That's really what a mission is all about I think, adaptation. Anyways, this week we had the word, "admiration" and so I had everyone go around and say someone or something they admired. One of my favorite people in my class is named Sergei. He's this huge, muscley guy but he's so kind and sweet. When we got to him he said, "I admire, uh, small kittens." Hahahaha. I died. I laughed so hard even though I tried to keep it in. He was completely serious. It was so funny. They also got the words, "incest" and "ancestors" confused. Haha. In other news, we went to the city Bor this week. And guess how we got there? By a chairlift. Cool, huh? It's just across the river from us and there's this way cool chairlift that's faster than a bus so we took it. We love adventure. Anyways, that's pretty much been my week! I'm grateful to be here. I love my mission more everyday. It's definitely different than I thought but it's exactly what I need. Heavenly Father always knows much better than we do. That's a big lesson I'm learning on my mission. I love you all! Have the best of weeks! Love, Cectpa Harris 

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