Another Transfer!

So. first things first, the snow is all gone. This is sad.

On to less important things, Elder Peterson is getting transfered. It may seem harsh to call that less important, but he's still going to be in Dnepro. He's going across the river, it's not a huge change. It's like he isn't really leaving, I have the option to call him in if I need help with the language program.

Elder Cannon is going to be my new companion. He's from Utah. He's from my MTC group, but he was in a different district. Should be pretty fun.

I don't know how many of you have heard of this, but there's a movie that the Church put out called "Meet the Mormons". It's a pretty good documentary, but the problem is that the Russian tranlation is... not fantastic. It's not bad, it makes sense, and it works, it's just not very good. What's bad is the Russian subtitles! Those make no sense at all.

The reason I bring this up is that this week we wanted to show it to our English practice goers, but we wanted to have Russian subtitles, because not everybody at our English practice understands English very well. I won't lie, some don't at all.

We knew how bad the subs were, so I had to translate it again in order to use it. 

The old subs were so bad. There wasn't a single line that didn't require reworking. To give an example:

What's said in English:

-"I'm the bishop here, I can help you."

-"You're the bishop?"

What the Russian subtitlist got out of that:

-"I'm the elephant there, helping you."

-"That's you, as an elephant?"

I'm not making this up.

Other than that, I got told an interesting anectdote by a less-active member while we were helping him move a pile of logs. He was talking about Stalingrad, and he told us that the people who live there say, "If the world were a giant butt, Stalingrad is the hole."

I can't say that I've often had people compare the world with a butt in a philosohpical way before, but something about Russian just makes it possible.

Well, that's a lot, so I'll stop here.

Peace out!

Elder Robison

It was Elder Litchfield's birthday this week, and so we had cake for district meeting.

 This is what happened to the cake.

This is apparently one of Sister Savran's traditions.