Week 4

FAMILY!!!!!! This week was SO SICKKKKK! I love getting your dear elders thank you so much! This place gets better and better. Russian is coming along too, heavenly father is really helping me out. I can say the first vision in russian now which i never thought possible and next week we have to teach the 1st lesson in russian....sketch! Its gonna be a train wreck haha hows the fam? Thanks for writing me back bro, my district thinks you're a baller for dating some that's their age haha. Cami, I wrote you today but congratulations on the job! Brother Frisbee is the man, we're all blessed to have him in our lives. Did any of you read the "4th missionary"? slash did you send it to Kimi? the new Russians are coming in 2 weeks! that means I will have been here for 6 weeks already....oh and the new freshman (that started for byu this year) is going russian speaking and coming in with the new districts...which means I have gym time with him...which means that I am gonna play ball with him..I guess i'll go easy on him. So at lunch the other day, I got to meet a man who just got released as a mission president in Moscow and just got called to the 70. He is the area 70 over the Russia Ukraine mission areas. He was SO RAD! But he told us that the last group of russian speaking missionaries had a hard time getting their visas approved so when they did get approved, they all got there at the same time. He said that is was about 80% of the missionaries that are there now...welllllll they all go home in the end of the summer!! so what that means is that i will be with them for just under 2 months....that means that my zone will be the OLDEST out there in about 4-5 months....CRAZY!! he was telling us to get ready cuz before we know, we're all gonna be senior companions in about 4-5 months!! good thing Russian is really easy or this would be kind of scary to think about. so after the devotional, we have a devotional breakdown and discuss what we liked. well the thing that we talked about the most we're our mothers for some reason...sorry dad haha. but we were talking about how in elementary school we come home and mom asks us how are day went and then we just go absolutely nuts and tell her EVERYTHING. then when high school comes around and she asks us how are day went...and we say " good, later" or " it was whatever, can I go now?" and then when we hit college and we actually realize that we miss our family and that without our families we would be nothing...mom asks us how our day went (over the phone) and then we go absolutely nuts again and tell her EVERYTHING. well the same thing applies in the gospel. we start of as literal children then we start to grow up. when that happens, like in high school, we become childish...our goal now is to become like a child again. Through prayer and scrips (scriptures) and charity and love, all of the above, we can achieve this goal. God loves us MORE than our moms so in your prayers, become like a child. have an ACTUAL conversation. he's there to help us, use him. k out of time as usual, i love you all!!! have a GREAT week! (oh and having a great week all depends on YOU)

-elder Rooney