Well, this week was fun, and filled with a lot of stuff and travelling!
On Tuesday, we went with our super cool member friend Stass to go teach his friend. His friend never showed up, so Stass went around all day with us to talk to people about the church and about English Practice. Then he went with us to teach a lesson to our only investigator right now (Who's gonna be baptized on Saturday). Then, his friend turned up finally, so we went and taught him a really good lesson. And then Stass continued to stick with us through English Practice, even though he doesn't really like speeaking English and isn't very good at it.
Stass is super cool, he's always doing awesome things to try and help us.
On Wednesday, we went to the last day of the Summer Camp from last week. They were all super sad to see us go, and they gave Elder Mayberry and I sweet gifts. After that, we went and taught our investigator again. Then, we went home, ate, I came down sick, and we packed our bags for a 4 day trip.
Thursday, we were on the road all day, and I was sick.
We went up to Zaparozhe again for Zone Training. That was really good, like usual. After that, we got to serve in Zaparozhe for a day. Zaparozhe is so much different from other places I've served so far. I got to serve with Elder Harris for that day, because I don't know the area. We ended up finding a family that was interested in learning about the Church. So that was awesome.
That brings us to Sunday, when we had a member of the Presidency of the Quorum of the Seventy come to Dnepropetrovsk. That was amazing, he gave such a good talk. The entire mission was there, so I got to see Elder Fuller again for the first time in forever. I spent all day with him, we even went contacting together afterwards and taught a few people with no problems.
Elder Fuller and I ended up staying up until 5 this morning talking. So that was fun, we caught up a lot.
Today, we were supposed to travel back to Nikolaev, but we've been delayed until tomorrow.
The Assisstants to the President basically decided that they weren't going to figure out the travel arangements for the mission even though it was a huge event that really required somebody with a view of the full picture to plan properly in order to have it all work properly. Missionaries who lived further than 2 hours away were basically just left out to dry when the APs sent out a text Saturday night at 10 O'Clock telling the whole mission that they had to find their own way to and from the conference. They had nowhere for us to stay the night in Dnepro, so when I asked to find out something (You know, because I've never left the South of the Mission), they literally told me to figure it out myself with Elders in the area.
Basically, they neglected a big part of their job this weekend. They're supposed to handle the travel arangements for things like this. They've known about this conference for at least a month, and they didn't plan anything. Perhaps needless to say, I'm a bit unhappy with them right now. We have lessons that need to be taught and a lot of work to be done in our area, but we're all now stuck in Dnepro until tomorrow. We probably won't get back until tomorrow at around 5, if we're lucky. So... I'm a little annoyed right now.
It's OK, though! Nobody's hurt, and I get to go back, so everything's good!
Just remember, if you ever have to arrange for a little over 50 people to travel somewhere, and you have a month to organize it, please put forth some effort to it. It's not necessarily easy, but it's also very possible, and the earlier you let people now what their arrangements are, the less upset thy'll be with you if their journey isn't exactly pleasant.
Peace out!
Elder Robison
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