Week 15 Communist Christmas
So this week started out with a bang. So we went to the შობა
(Christmas) parade and let me tell you one of the most interesting experiences
of my life. They had a bunch of people dressed up in white with a red cross and
they had priests everywhere throwing holy water to bless the people. I got hit
multiple time...it was interesting to say the least. They had a giant
truck which had a pot for incense. Let me tell the smell was soooooo strong.
They had a few other things like people dressed up as shepherds and some floats
to look like the animals that would have been present at Christs birth. At one
point we joined the crowds of people walking with the parade and then bailed to
go to the giant church where the parade would end. There was a ceremony at the
church's steps and one inside I think. Very interesting experience, I took
videos of the entire thing.
We met with the investigator who has a baptismal date a few times this week. We found out in one of the meetings that she might be moving to Germany or France in February so she is unsure if she will be here for her baptism. She has expressed how she feels really unsafe in Georgia and with the many experiences she has told us it would make sense. She has had a very interesting life to say the least. She is still going strong though. She started reading the Book of Mormon. Its takes a while for her however because of how bad her eye sight is because of her surgery. She has a special magnify glass to help her read but it is straining on her eyes so she has to take breaks. Wednesday we met with the interesting family who has the husky and the son who is very...verry...weird. Literally the first 20 minutes of being in the apartment he had a giant blanket just wrapped around his body...like he had clothes on under but by the way he covered himself it seemed like he didn't...this kid, man. We finally set some expectations and she said she will read the pamphlet. She really wants us to help her son cause she is unsure what to do about him. We told her about the Elders and how they might help him out. I learned a lot about her son and the very...not so nice and not so righteous things he does. Saturday we started a new scripture study group at night. We held that...and it was very interesting too. The elders were sick so it was just the sisters running it. We had this one guy come who I think is an investigator. Let just say the discussion was interrupted by him with his many questions about the Atonement and specifically about God's name. It got very heated and the missionaries all got very frustrated because he wouldn't listen to their answers. I just got some good language practice and wrote down a bunch of words I didn't know...some of which weren't words after all, but I thought they were. I felt bad for the missionaries though. Sunday was awesome because the investigator with the baptismal date came and she said she loved church! We were so happy, it made our day! That night however our water heater broke. So our house has no way of heating. I took the most coldest shower this morning in my life. Like it was so cold that it would hurt to be under the water for too long. This apartment is going to be the death of me. First the kitchen sink doesn't work (we wash all our dishes in the bathroom sink), it leaks (we have to dump a bucket of water every night so it doesn't over flow), and now we don't have any hot or even warm water. We are going to call up the landlady and try to get it fixed. If not the missionaries are moving out of that apartment!
We met with the investigator who has a baptismal date a few times this week. We found out in one of the meetings that she might be moving to Germany or France in February so she is unsure if she will be here for her baptism. She has expressed how she feels really unsafe in Georgia and with the many experiences she has told us it would make sense. She has had a very interesting life to say the least. She is still going strong though. She started reading the Book of Mormon. Its takes a while for her however because of how bad her eye sight is because of her surgery. She has a special magnify glass to help her read but it is straining on her eyes so she has to take breaks. Wednesday we met with the interesting family who has the husky and the son who is very...verry...weird. Literally the first 20 minutes of being in the apartment he had a giant blanket just wrapped around his body...like he had clothes on under but by the way he covered himself it seemed like he didn't...this kid, man. We finally set some expectations and she said she will read the pamphlet. She really wants us to help her son cause she is unsure what to do about him. We told her about the Elders and how they might help him out. I learned a lot about her son and the very...not so nice and not so righteous things he does. Saturday we started a new scripture study group at night. We held that...and it was very interesting too. The elders were sick so it was just the sisters running it. We had this one guy come who I think is an investigator. Let just say the discussion was interrupted by him with his many questions about the Atonement and specifically about God's name. It got very heated and the missionaries all got very frustrated because he wouldn't listen to their answers. I just got some good language practice and wrote down a bunch of words I didn't know...some of which weren't words after all, but I thought they were. I felt bad for the missionaries though. Sunday was awesome because the investigator with the baptismal date came and she said she loved church! We were so happy, it made our day! That night however our water heater broke. So our house has no way of heating. I took the most coldest shower this morning in my life. Like it was so cold that it would hurt to be under the water for too long. This apartment is going to be the death of me. First the kitchen sink doesn't work (we wash all our dishes in the bathroom sink), it leaks (we have to dump a bucket of water every night so it doesn't over flow), and now we don't have any hot or even warm water. We are going to call up the landlady and try to get it fixed. If not the missionaries are moving out of that apartment!
Spiritual thought: This week we set lifelong visions by
using our patriarchal blessing as guide. It was super cool to set a goal to
work towards to become more like the person my Heavenly Father wants me to be.
I never really looked at my patriarchal blessing that way and usually just read
it for comfort. It was really cool to look it in a different light. I highly
suggest!
That's the week! until next time!
-და ჯენსენი
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