Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Our Missionaries

WOW - Moscow was going to get a Stake!
Elder White, Elder O'Briant, Elder Bruev


Sister Trunova always wanting to help!


Elder White, Elder O'Briant, Elder Bruev, Elder Boldakov, Jim


Sisters Bullough and Turnova, Me, Jim,

Elders Bruev, White, O'Briant, Boldakov


Elder Boldakov, SisterBullough, Natalia, Elder Bruev


Elders Cordoza and Jessee

begging cookies from our FHE

Elders Nelson and Miller

Which way out of the metro?


District Meeting on Saturday evening after a service project and baptism. Sister Trunova, Elder Anderson, elder Baldakov, Elder O'Briant, Elder Bruev, Jim


Our neighbor, Natalia, gave us a whole fish (not cleaned) that had been prepared in a salt brine. The Russian missionaries helped Jim prepare it and LOVED it! Clean it, skin it, slice it, add sliced onions, oil and vinegar and eat. Serve potatoes with it.

Elder Bruev, Sister Trunova, Jim Elder Balakov


Sister Perry made lemon glaze to top a Betty Crocker cake. It was delicious!


Sister Trunova wanted to learn to make rolls (and I still do not have a rollilng pin).


Missionaries for dinner! Tacos and Fajitas!

Jim, Elder Anderson, Sister Perry, Sister Trunova, Elder Dunn, Elder Baldakov, Elder Rudd


We were getting ready to sing in church that day.

Sister Trunova, Me, Elder Dunn, Elder Rudd (on the piano), Irina Kolomitseva, Sister Perry


Omlets for breakfast at district meeting! Elder Hansen was not able to eat because he was recovering from food poisoning. Yuk!

Elder Dunn (Florida), Elder Ablett (London), Elder Hansen (Arizona), Elder Bolikov (Russia), Sister Trunova (Ukraine), Sister Chapenois (Finland/Utah)



Sisster Khmelinina, me, Sister Champenois


District meeting with a role playing discussion about prayer.

We had just finished eating omlets.

Elder Dunn, Elder Bruev, Jim, Sister Kmelinina,

Sister Champenois, Elder Jessie, Elder Baldakov



We had our mission district meeting on July 3rd. We decided to have a Red, White and Blue party for our American Independance Day and also the Russian independance that was celebrated on June 12. All of the missionaries wore red, white and blue. We had pancakes with rasberry syrup and jam and blueberry syrup and jam and spray whipping cream to top them! We also had scrambles eggs with ham and cheese. The training was on our strong nations and how to make our mission strong. Great missionaries!

Elder Trotter, Sister Abram, Jim, Elder Baldakov, Elder Jessee, Sister Khmelinina, and Elder Bruev


Elder Kaderov

He taught many times at our home (apartment).


For Districk meeting we had the missionaries over for omlets. Elders Artunyan, Cardoza, Miller, Trotter,Sisters Dayberry and Abrum and us We invited the missionaries over to have a Christmas dinner. They decided December 26th was a good day for them. We had pot roast in the crock pot, fried potatoes, beans, fresh bread with butter and strawberry jam, and peach dump cake for dessert. I thought it was just OK but the missionaries said they loved it. I won't question their motives! Back row: Elder Hanson, Sister somebody, Elder Miller, Elder Demchenka. Front: an extra guest (a member friend of the Sister), Sister Visitiv, Sister Abram, Elder Arutunian. The missionaries called and wanted to use our computer to use "google earth" and mark members and priesthood holders on a map for the mission. They said they would make us dinner. We said great! So here they are making Borsh in the kitchen. It was delicious! Elder Breedlove is grating the beets. He is wearing one of Jim's t-shirts to protect his white shirt from beet juice. Grated carrots are in front and there are two bottles of filtered water from the filter on our sink.


Sister Perry, Sister Dayberry, Elder Hansen and Elder Breedlove in the kitchen. Elder Kodirov and Elder Hochstettler on the computer.

1 comment:

Jen said...

could you send some missionaries my way? I would love to trade internet for food!