Newbie from New Zealand!

Hello!

So this week our mission got a lot of brand new "greenies"! The two sisters coming from the Spain MTC stayed at our apartment their first night so that was cool! Then Sis Busath and I were asked to sing again at the new missionary orientation.  We sang a special version of "Savior, Redeemer of my soul".

Elder Cookson is our newbie from New Zealand and he's super cool. He has a lot of desire to get to work and also to learn Russian so that's awesome and very humbling and we're learning from his example. He's so positive! It's pretty interesting to see cause he doesn't know much Russian yet but he sure will learn it fast. He decided instead of trying to bear his testimony to the branch on Sunday in Russian, he sang a hymn and you guys should have seen the branch they all fell in love with him haha it was so funny cause it was all our babushkys (elder ladies )talked about.

We found out where Galina (lady we met pepper plant contacting)  works and when so we dropped by and talked to her for awhile and sis Busath asked  her about her coming to church. Turns out she hadn't said she was interested in coming to church, she only goes on holidays but then I said well maybe she'd like to read the book of Mormon and she took it and was thankful. we started talking about what we believe about life after death and such we think she may believe that resurrection is reincarnation but I told her to read the intro and Alma 40 and she said she would so we're hopeful to start teaching her officially this week!

We have had trouble recently getting a hold of this one member who was active but went away for the summer and we hadn't seen her since she got back over a month ago. Sis Busath had the idea to just go to her apartment to drop off cookies or something but then we almost decided not to but later that day we saw on the branch list that it was her birthday that day. I said that we definitely have to now then. Well we went with a card and chocolates but the dumb phone didn't work and no one was around to let us in but I knew we should stay and  wait. Well long story short we got in and she was home and so happy we stopped by! She let us in to talk and have spiritual thought and her less active daughter who we hadn't been able to meet with at all sat in the whole time, and participated! We got to know her better and the Spirit was definitely there. It was a huge miracle for us and a lesson to always go through with the first prompting.

Other then that, We carved pumpkins but didn't have enough time to go contact with them like we wanted to so stayed for that next week. And it's getting way cold here but we also finally had some pretty fall colors!

Love ya!

Cectpa Horne