05 June 2011 Wonderful Day

It has been such a wonderful time to be on a mission in Moscow Russia.  It has also been a very busy time.  To organize a stake takes a lot of time and paper work for many hands.  But the things we have done we loved doing and loved being a part of helping to organize the first stake in Russia.  We could just feel the spirit from all these saints who were so thankful to have an apostle amonst them and make them a stake where they would receive the blessings of a stake. And to have their own Patriarch.  They would have to wait years to have their patriartical blessings until a patriarch would arrive in Russia.  Then he would only have a certain amount of time here and they all could not get their blessings so they would have to wait until the next visit.  Many pictures that I hope will let you know of some of the joy we have felt.

Sister Sorenson and me on Sunday at church both in yellow.

Then who comes in but Maria and she has on yellow and then Sister Martyanova
and she has on yellow and then Tiesha in her summer hat. Love those two little
babushka's.  Granny's

This is 10:30pm at night.  Then it is light by 4am.  It is kind of hard
to get enough hours of sleep with so much light.

District meeting at the office.  President is enjoying cake and ice cream while
we all work hard on folding and stuffing programs.  In picture..President Sorenson,
on hi right Elder Jenkins, then Elder Gronning, Elder Hansen, Elder Palmer and
Elder Spoerri.  I helped too.but we did need a picture.

Elder Nelson greeting the members.



This little lady just cried and cried and she shook his hand.  They were
so excited to have an apostle with them.



She even made Elder Nelson shed some tears.

So many happy members/

Outside the Central bldg after Sat. night session.
Doesn't everyone just look so happy?

Gene walking to the Amber Plaza for Sunday conference.
They do not have a building large enough to hold
a conference in so they rent one.  The day will come when
they have a new stake center and then a day with a
Temple in Russia.

Inside the Amber Plaza waiting for meeting to begin.

The man on the far left is Pres. Boiko our new stake President.  Very young man with
2 little boys.  He will be great.  The man 2nd in on the right is the new
Patriarch.

Young Single adults chior.  They sang some beautiful hymns.  The conductor is quite dramatic.  We love
to watch him.

Front of program.  This is a little miracle.  We had the programs all
done and President got a call late Fri night saying that we
needed to do more.  Someone did not think we had
enough,  So Gene and I went up to the office Sat to run off
some more programs and songs.  There were some men doing
some kind of work on our floor and had things all torn apart.
We got to work running off 200 more copies of programs and songs.
Just as 193 came out of the copier the workers knocked the
power off.  No computers or lights.  And that happens quite
often,  So we were very blessed to get 193 just in time.

Back page of program



This precious little baby gave me a big smile and then took

a hold of my finger.  It felt so good to feel a tiny little hand.