This week was a good week:) Lots
of travelling! On Wednesday we left early morning. We took a taxi to the bus
station, a bus to a different city where we dropped off our bags, then the
mission van came and picked us up to take us to Vladivostok. We worked all day
in Vlad and then took a train back to that small city the following morning. We
grabbed our bags and took a bus to the airport. We took a plane to Korea, a bus
to the temple and had just enough time to do a little bit of work before
grabbing McDonalds and going to sleep:) I got a BigMac and chocolate shake! It
has been 3 months since I had one (last Korea trip). We took a bus back to the
airport, flew to Russia again, and grabbed the rest of our big bags. We flew to
Khabarovsk, then we flew to Irkutsk, then a taxi to Angarsk:) Siberia. We got in Saturday morning around midnight. It isn't as cold as I had anticipated, it is starting to warm
up. Around 0 degrees:)
We had a
good few days here working. Lots of new people we talked to, lots of new faces
I have the chance to meet! As a matter of fact, the Angarsk church here just
recently became a branch this past week right before I got here.
I think it is so cool how you
have the opportunity to email and talk with our upcoming Mission President:) It’s kind of cool that he is from Mesa. Make
sure you tell him good things about me. haha
We had a ton of fun in Korea! We didn't have any
time to stop in the Korean airport for Burger King or Jamba Juice or anything,
so we took a bus as quick as we could to downtown. That is where the Korean
temple is. You are walking down the street, it looks like a small version of
NYC, you take a turn up some dark alley kinda street, up a hill for about 100
yards and then you are there. A bright
white beautiful temple of God in downtown Seoul. Very cool. We did some work in
the temple and then went really quick to buy Mcdonalds.
When I was in the Korean temple,
I was speaking with some of the Korean people in there. Some of them spoke
English and I mentioned how I could read a little Korean. One man showed me his
name tag and I read it and he thought I was the coolest missionary:)
We also met some people in the
airports. There were a lot of Americans over in the Korean airport, travelling
for business. We met a young looking guy, he was flying in from Japan. He
looked American so we talked to him, and turns out he is serving in the Navy,
stationed in Japan right now. He was flying to Korea to buy some fried chicken.
( not even kidding) We will have to go check it out next time. He gave us some
Japanese money and we gave him some rubles. Cool guy!
We met some guys from Canada, I
spoke some French to them and then they started going off in French and I was
so confused. They spoke English too and were pretty nice. We also met a kid
named Leo from Germany. He was on the same bus as us on the way to the temple.
He spoke way good English and he told us how he just finished high school and
he went on a big trip by himself. He flew to Fiji, Korea, China, New Zealand
and all these crazy places all by himself. He just left, not knowing exactly
where he would eat or sleep each night along his journey. Brave, some might
say. Crazy would also be an accurate description. I don’t know if I would want
to do it haha. We told him about the Church and the Book of Mormon and he said
he really wanted to read it but the only copies we had on us were in Russian.
Dang it. Hopefully he can find missionaries in Germany. We are praying for him!
Overall, a pretty good week:)
Hopefully we can inspire these Angarsk-ians to come closer to Christ and accept
his gospel. The Church is True and I Love You!
Love always,
Elder Gardner
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