Dear Mom and Dad
It sounds like things are going well
back home. Mom, I will answer your questions first. Hair dryer and
everything work just fine. At least, I haven't had any problems. My new
companion..., funny you should ask. Normally I wouldn't know by now. I assumed that
because both my companions were going home that I would for sure be in Saratov
but, nope. I will be in a new city. I am not entirely sure what that means but I
will be serving with Sister Upshaw. We were in the MTC together so it is both
of our 2nd cycles. I should be a little nervous about it but I am stoked. I
know she will work hard. And Dad the first part of the Book of Mormon is
awesome. I finished a couple weeks ago and restarted and yesterday I
finished 2nd Nephi. It's cool that his last words are "I must
obey". That pretty much sums Nephi up. Also, Brother Bashford’s story was
cool. I hope someday I will be able to express myself in Russian. Currently I
can't really express myself in either language. I feel like I just think a lot.
Also, sometimes I feel like a have turned into this shy person because I never
really do a lot of the talking. I leave that to Sister Braginets. Anyway,
eventually I will able to be myself. I hope. Also, tell Jane thank you for
making her kids watch the match against Canada. Hopefully someone enjoyed it.
I really don't have much to say..., this
week we were getting our apartment ready to move. We had to take everything
because no one is moving in behind us. They might close it we don't know. Any
who, yesterday at church I was talking to a lady named Vera. She is
sweet last week I talked with her and she said her favorite color is purple. This
week she asked me what sports I liked and I told her soccer. She said, "You
know the Europa urea cup is on TV". And then she went on to talk about Ronaldo
and she got really animated as she talked about some cool goals. IT was Sweet! Keep
in mind she is at least 70-75 years old. She invited me to watch with her. Man,
if only. I also talked with a man named Aleksai in our branch. He was talking
about temples. I told him the salt lake temple was only 20 minutes away from my
house, and he couldn't imagine it. And then I told him that there were actually
3 temples that were closer than that. I thought his brain was going to explode.
Haha. He asked if we have sacrament meeting in the temples, I explained that
there are a lot of church buildings in Utah as well. He asked how many stakes
were in the Salt Lake valley and I didn't know, so if you could find that out
for me that would be cool. He guessed 100. I am sure it is more than that.
Today we moved and that was
kind of stressful. Usually we email earlier in the day but because today was
crazy we are using our last hour of p day to email. And we still don't have
food..., I guess we will figure that out later.
I have been meaning to tell Todd
about the dairy section here. He would love it. Yogurt goes up to like 12% fat.
Skim milk is unheard of here. We buy 2.5% and that is the lowest I have seen. They
have like 5% and 6% they also have all sorts of different things. Kefir... I
don't know but I am still trying things out.
Friday we will be headed to
samara and then I will probably be headed to a new city. 2nd train ride!!
Well, I love you!!
Love,
Cectpa Pearce
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