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Hey Family,

Thanks for the good prompt letters. If you didn’t notice I hit my two year mark last Saturday. Woot woot. It was fun because it was just a normal missionary day where we tracted at the end of it and got two really good discussions with two men. One an older pot bellied fellow and the other a young married man. It was especially nice to be with my old MTC buddy doing all these things on a rainy, long, missionary day.
Yesterday we met with Natasha and Nina her member friend. We reset the date for the Fourth of July and it’s really solid, she’s excited and keeps saying she’s ready and we just have to make sure she is. The husband of her daughter (Anastasia) is still a jerk and doesn’t know about the church yet, so she’s still being held back, which might be just what’s needed right now. It was a nice meeting because I offered to pray at the beginning and she wanted to saying she could now, she had learned, and she did a great, sincere, Latter-day Saint prayer. She had had problems with it earlier as she’s old and prayed kind of Orthodoxy, we were very happy to see a big sign of conversion as we get closer to baptizing her. The member, Nina is a great lady who converted about 8 years ago and all her daughters were baptized too, her husband however is quite the contrast. We get rejected by people like him on the street, and they are usually drunk or just don’t understand at all the idea of faith or improvement. It was a special experience as Nina wanted to watch a church film before we did the meeting so she made her whole family come in, including the husband, and we watched the short poignant film, The Lamb of God and he just couldn’t understand it. He doesn’t understand Jesus or faith or repentance, he’s virtually a hobo who works a job and has a home, but nothing meaningful in life, Nina does all the raising of the family and he fills the roll of a Russian man who works, and that’s pretty much it. Nina must be a really strong lady to raise her kids despite him.
We’ll be in Miass tonight with me ol’ Taylor and the Russain elder Mizin. It’ll be nice to got back for one last time.

Love,

Rob