Week 11  "Knocking is so fun!"

Another week done! I actually hit my week mark a couple of days ago. Although, with the amount of work we've been doing it feels like I've been here longer than a week. It was a super fun and very interesting week. I went knocking doors for the first time this week. Let me tell you, knocking is so fun. Like I still have no idea what anyone is saying half the time (or probably all the time), but the people here are so interesting....and kind of weird at times. But, that's the best part. I love korpises (apartment buildings) because the stairs are so sketchy and half the time it looks like no one lives there. The best! During my first “knocking” we were invited in by this professor lady. She was very passionate and talked about how she was born during the communist time she is not religious. She said multiple times how she can't understand it, meaning religion. But she gave us a referral and so we met with her at work...at the university to meet her friend. This is where it gets interesting. Her friend wasn't there so we just ended up talking to her, the lady that said she doesn’t like religion. She read the pamphlet and the website and again said she doesn't understand the need for religion. We had to drop her sadly because of that. She proceeded to tell us how technically we weren't allowed to be there, so I don't why she thought this was a good place to meet. Anyway, she made sure that we hid our pamphlets and her friend walked us out.....so I probably could have been arrested. The university by the way looks like an abandoned hospital from a horror film....very interesting (see photo). Another time we accidentally knocked on an inactive member's house, so we hitting up their apartment soon. There is another cool story I would tell, but I'll tell it to you next week because we are meeting with them this week. I'm really excited because everything has been lining up perfectly with them so far. 

Other fun stuff: I ate at an Iraqian's house this week. They made homemade falafels for us. Super good. Parents I thought of you the whole times because I knew you would love them.

Spiritual thought: Read Mosiah 16:9. It is a super powerful verse about Christ and it goes perfectly with the Light the World that is happening right now.

Til next week!

-და ჯენსნეი

P.S. Exerts from responses to parents emails:

• Grocery stores are so different and hard to tell what is what because it most all the food labels are in Russian.
• Everything is super cheap here.
• I've tried a lot of food and yes I tried the churchkhela [hazelnut or walnuts dipped in flour, sugar and grape juice mixture] it was pretty good, not my favorite of the Georgian food though.
• I am eating at a member’s house for Christmas (American Embassy family).
• There is a huge possibly we have to turn in early cause of drunk people during the end of day. Past missionaries had to go in early during big holidays because of that, its chill though me and my companions made some fun plans if we do. 
• I will take a picture of a Georgian Christmas tree that we plan of getting today. Look them up there are so weird, but so awesome.
• I hope I get to show you the mission afterwards, because there is a lot of things here that I'm like oh Dad would totally love this or Mom would totally love this.
• Sister Van Broklin is super nice and so is everyone else. She is so excited about the work and knows Georgian very well.