On this email is my apartment.
1st email the pics is my DL your first district leader they call your “Dad” so the one next to me is Elder Larsen my DL and the one sitting by him is the AP who trained him so it’s a 3 generation pic
2 the church house we went to this morning, it was way sweet!!!
And the 3rd is a church house we went to last Wednesday
Second email the first one is of a pic I took this morning we found a paint brush and made it look like I was panting the pic.
The second one is more of the church house we went to this morning.
3rd is big Armen my hero he saved us one night, form a group of about 8 lockcoats I will always love him we tolled out DL when he called that night to see how we were doing (he does this every night) that we met one of the 3 Nephits that night. He got off work early one night and saw us waiting for the bus and come and talked to us. And not 5 min later this group of about 8 men came and he puffed up looked huge and the men just said some stuff and keep walking.
The last one is my name tag by the church I really like all the beautiful stuff here holy cow you would not believe how beautiful it is here.
Hey it wonderful to hear form all of you as normal. I hope all is going well with you all.
So here they will sometimes have members serve what they call mini mission they only serve for the 6 weeks and they can serve as many as they want. So the Saranoosh the girl I’m always telling you about she comes around with us a lot. She is my new Companion crazy!!!! But I’m so excited we get along really really well and they are bringing a Sister Christensen up to serve with us to so we’ll be in a 3 some. Sister Christensen and I got are call at the same time beginning of June so she’s been here for 4 months and me 1 month so I just have so much excitement God is going to have to bless me and my companions there is no way we’ll be able to do this with out him. (Lol it took me a min to remember the word for bless in English) My English is gone!!! It’s so hard to speak in English now and Armenian hasn’t come yet so I never know what to say it’s hard sometimes.
Sussan and Harutsun (my transliteration skills are not what they should be) they have got a lot of crap happening. Sussan, her grandkids are way sick and she had them live with her. She has 2 kids but her daughter had like 11 kids witch is wildly unheard of here. They freak when I tell them I have 4 brothers then I tell them I have 3 sisters and it's way funny. Harutsun, his name means resurrection in English, he needs surgery but he’s to scared to get it. (I don’t blame him if I had to get surgery I would try going to Frankford Germany to get it done.) So teaching them hasn’t happened that make me so sad you just have no idea. On a mission the people become just like family if not closer to you. Ya give your heart and soul to them; you do so much ya think of them all the time. I’ll give an example: My comp is really sick that’s why she’s getting transferred they're trying to get her somewhere warmer. It will be so cold that our noses are froze like ice in your nose I swear it happens, A lot! Well she is my hero she has lung problems and I try to make her take it easy. This never works she never gives up she will be dead form the day and some one wont answer there phone to see if they can come to church so we go to their house what I didn’t know was that they live up on the 6th floor I told her there was no way I was letting her huff it up 6 flights but before I could catch her she was on the 4th floor. To make it even better we had the wrong stairs so she goes down and runs up another flight of steps to the right door she goes up 12 flights of stairs dead anyways riding on a prayer to have the people say they couldn’t make it that week. So you make an appointment for later in the week and go, it breaks your heart not for the fact that you went up stairs that’s not the point the point is that you just want to cry that they don’t get it. They feel the warmth and peace when your there but just don’t take advantage that they can have that always with them not just when your there.
But don’t worry you have your heart breaks but there is this joy that you can't even imagine! Like the first time I was on a bus going to Arteke from Gymeri, normally in America you just don’t talk about gospel things. I could see a lady looking at my tag so I started talking to her she asked if I would was married. I said no then she asked if I would marry her son (I get this a lot) so the Queers have this system that works well. I pull out a pic that I have of Jon and show it to them and tell them he’s my boyfriend (I do a good job of holding in the vomit lol) and they give me a hard time for not being in the pic. But hey get the point that I’m taken. So she asked me why I was here away from my boyfriend, But that’s my “in” I told her how I was here to teach about Christ and that we use this book called the Book of Mormon to teach of him and all the wonderful things he has done for us and our families and I want ppl to know about the happiness that I found. This was the first time I gave away a pamphlet all by my self, and the lady’s friend took it and started reading, they were both really excited. I put my number on it so they could call me. But they wanted to know more so the best I could I explained how God loves us so much he gives us families that we can be with for ever. They loved it! At that time when it finally comes you have the word but more important the spirit telling you what to tell them. I told them that they can be with there loved ones for ever and this is their first time hearing it. I cant help but feel a new type of joy in my heart it makes everything worth it makes up for the heart aches and your just filled with over whelming joy as a missionary ya learn to ride on moments like that. Totally makes up for all the times people just laugh because you can’t think of any Armenian to say. Worse when we find the words and they don’t care and don’t want to hear it. That hurts way worse than anything they could say is when you see people that believe in what your saying and want to learn more but there friends don’t so they walk away and you know they felt it they wanted it but just didn’t have the courage to stand out and take it.
I know that I’m here with God at my right hand I feel his love so strong I know that this is the best thing I’ve ever done! The joy and love I feel every day is awesome I can’t describe it. I really hope that Mom and Dad you go on a mission someday together. There is so much work to be done. But you don’t have to have the tag to be a missionary. Get your friends that you think might want to know about the church don’t be pushy but offer it to them just having your eyes open can do so much. Let the missionaries teach them at your house or go with them, the lessons that we have a member go SO much better not only do your testimonies help but it gives them a friend when the missionaries are gone.
I love you all so much hope your week goes good the pics on this is of my apt. its huge and way nice for here the shower is a thing we fill at night because we only have water at night.
Love your Queer Fergie
Way glad to hear that you all are doing good keep me updated on the world around you no news is to small to let me know about. thanks Rachel for letting me know that Wes is getting married pleas some one kick him for me and tell him to write his fav cousin (I know he’s not there but make him anyway)
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