Hello!
This week was pretty stressful. :p We had lots of places to go. I
wasn't hardly in my area at all. We had the Christmas party in Yerevan
on the 24th, then on Christmas we went over to Gyumri to train the new
District leader over there. On Friday we had lots of training down in
Yerevan (and my birthday :) ) and then on Saturday we went up to
Alaverdi to visit the members up there. It was way fun.
Alaverdi is a small factory
city from the Soviet era. There's still one copper mine factory working
but besides that the whole city is full of factory skeletons. It's a way
nice city though that's apparently supposed to be really green during
the spring.
The missionaries pulled out of
there when I was in the MTC and the branch closed right after I got to
country, so right now it's just a group, mainly because there's no
priesthood. But once every month we make sure all the members get the
sacrament, and one other time during the month we go up and visit them
and meet with them and any other investigators. So yeah, that's
Alaverdi. :)
We
had a pretty cool experience this week. We were just walking along when
this one guy just stopped us and said "Hey, I'm interested in learning
about that book you're holding. How can I get a hold of one?" and of
course we responded by saying he was talking to the right people :) So
hopefully he'll be willing to meet either today or tomorrow. :) It came
after a really hard week, so it was a nice breath of fresh air.
The
week before, we were having a pretty rough day, so I stopped Elder
Harrington and said, "Hey let's say a prayer." By this point it was
already 8:00 at night. Before we even let our arms fold, a guy from
across the street called out to us to come over. He then invited us into
his house where his wife, kid, sister, niece, and mother were. At first
they were hesitant, but they warmed up super quickly. I'm not sure if
they were interested in the gospel, but if nothing else, they're our
friends now :) God answers prayers.
Well, that's my week. Happy New Year! I love you all!
Elder Hammer
On my birthday, we had to go
down to Yerevan for training meetings and conferences the whole day, so I
had to wake up at 5:00. So while I was waiting for the taxi to show up,
I opened my box while everyone else was asleep (Elder Harrington stayed
in Vanadzor with the Gyumri District leader because he had work). Thank
you so much for everything :) It was kind of neat because my district remembered me when they came to pick me up. So it was a fun (long though) day.
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| Me, Branch Prez. Elder Hall, Elder Griffeths, and Arturik one of our young members |
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| We went to Alaverdi this last Saturday. We found these. You are what you eat. And you are what what you eat eats... |
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| I don't know if you can see, but that was the thermometer on the way down to Yerevan. Right after I took the picture, it went down to -27 C. |
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| This is one of our member families in Alaverdi |
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