January 13, 2011


Hey Mom,


well things are going great and a little crazy. I did get transferred and i got transferred into the city, i am serving with an American from Utah and he is super cool his name is elder anderson. he is my senior companion so that is cool but at the same time not because i am a zone leader now so i have a lot of responsibility and i really have no idea what i am supposed to be doing right now so i hope that goes well. the other thing that is weird because most zone leaders serve for about 4 transfers which is 6 months and if that happens i will have only 2 or 3 transfers after that before i come home weird right. but that is the new things about transfers. if you want to know just where i am serving i am in the south west part of st. pertersburg and something that interesting that we do is that for more then 50 percent of the time we speak in English do to the amount of Africans that we teach. we have some from Guiana, Nigeria, Jamaica, and countless other countries. they are seriously some of the greatest people i have ever meet and i am looking forward to working with them.
well other then transfers we have had a crazy week my last companion and i made a record high of meetings on my last area well for the transfer high 19 indoor meetings it was awesome. we got so much work done and started so much and got so much done and i am looking forward to getting to see the progress from that area as am the leader now i will have that opportunity. so i hope to see much success and my last companion elder zhilinski is just a champion and i know that he will do "A marvellous work" in gatchina. we had only two meetings with investigators that week but they were actually great meetings and i really liked it. then right before i left the area we got a new investigator from a recently baptized member it is actually her daughter and that was really cool and i think that there will be really good success with her and also her kids she has two sons and i think that if we can sit down with them and talk to them that we will see amazing success well now i can not sit down with her and i think that my last comp will be able to do the most work for he is a great missionary and just really knows how to work with the spirit and knows how to help people and i think that he will do awesome. well i think i repeated myself a little in that.
but that is really all that happened we had planned to set a baptismal date but it did not work out and that was a bummer and so i hope that elder zhilinski can do that this transfer and that would be awesome. and that is about it from what happened this last week.
as for other things i think that is really cool that kyle found a new friend and that they get along with each other and that even dad hangs out with his dad or is going to is awesome. and that is really cool that trev also hangs out with them. you know i think it is just awesome to see that kyle is taking trev under his wing and hanging with him, it just reminds me of what ty and i would do. i think ty went with me everywhere. we had the same friends and did everything together and to see trev and ky doing that is awesome. i also think that, what is it oh mud running sounds like it would be alot of fun you will definitely have to tell me about that when they do it alright. and now it seems that ty has turned into the snowboarder that means that when i get home i will not be able to keep up with him. i bet he is just tarring it up. i heard that he landed a backflip i think he told me that when i talked to you guys on christmas. so that is cool. and i have to say that i was in shock that megan wants to do a talent show but at the same time she will do awesome i know it she is really good at what she does. and her friend and her will do awesome. i am definitely waiting to hear about that.
Now about BYU yes i really want to go to BYU Prove after my mission and that is really funny because i was planning on asking about that today but you got ahead of me on that one haha. but ya i really do not know what i need to do so if you could find out and i will do what i can on my side.
oh and dad is going to do a run that is awesome and holy cow that is long from hunnington to san diego wow that is so long. and who will he go with the uncle's from Utah or from California quiet not understood what you said. but that is crazy he will do awesome since the man is in most likely 4 times better shape then i am haha and is just a champion.
well mom i love you and want you to know that i know that this church is true, feel it everyday, i know that this gospel is true and that we are always in the watching eye of the lord. not to long ago i read in D&C 84:88 and it talks about how the lord will be with us on our right and left and his angels will bear us up. and that is so true the lord is always around and especailly when we do that what he wants us to do. i know that he is around us and that he loves us and wants to do everything for us. mom i love you and thank you so much for everything that you have done for me
i hope that you have a great week and enjoy the good weather and everything
love always,
kevin