11/23/2010 Happy Thanksgiving

Hope your thanksgiving is good! You’ll have to tell me all about it and also your black Friday shopping. Good luck!

Well this week was good  we were able to pick up some new investigators!!!!!!!!!! This area has been a butt to try to get new investigators but alas it’s starting to look up. We found them in kharbert like a hr. or so away from our house. We found a random store out there that sells smores!!! They don’t have marshmallows here so it’s a big deal that they had that. Well this girl thought that we needed help getting stuff from the store so she was trying to translate for us. She spoke really good English but we also speak Armenian so it was a nice effort. When ppl try to help us we just let them and talk to them in English and then switch it to Armenian. She had left and came back a few minutes later to ask us if she could show us a pick of an American friend she had and see if we knew him… heck I don’t care what gets me into the house I’ll look of pictures of fence post and tell her if I know where it is in America!
We went over this last week. It went really well we picked up her, her mom and her mom’s friend. Funny moments from this meeting;  first we meet her and the friend at the store so they could show us where they live. The girl Anna says I need to tell you two things before we go, we have dogs and we have no lights (it was 7:30pm and very dark). I really don’t care if there are no lights; we carry flashlights because surprisingly that happens a lot. Ok so when she said she had dogs what she meant was I’m going to take you into doggie Heaven! Well to be fair it was doggie heaven for me, my comp on the other hand was not as happy as I was. We went into this basement thing and I kid you not 7 dogs 2 cats and 2 rats all living in there one bedroom basement. Dad you would have died they were all over the bed all over the couch. The living room is also the bedroom, that’s how it is in all the houses here more often than not. There was an old Grandma in the bed. When I walked past her, she scared the crap out of me when she moved (I didn’t know she was in there). As I walked past the bed I picked up a puppy and took it to my chair with me. Later that puppy went to town on my bag and now looks a little weathered but it took it well. It was a good meeting; the mom is Russian and learned Armenian here in Gyumri that was my first area here. Well up there they speak a different dialect we call it “barbar”. This lady speaks Russian/barbar. It’s really really really hard to understand! Anna was translating the mom’s Armenian into normal Armenian or English if she knew it. There was one whole thought that the mom said that I didn’t understand a word not a single word!! The daughter looked at me and laughed as she said “I didn’t even understand that one”.

We had Elder Manzons from the 3rd corium of the 70 come to Armenia this week. One of the members here Eric (he’s the one that served with Joe Carbine) translated for him. So crazy during the conference Eric had to go from Russian to English, Russian to Armenian, English to Russian, Armenian to Russian all three languages were being thrown around and he had to help us understand the 70 and the 70 to understand us. Crazy crazy.
Well my teeth should be normal before Christmas. Tomorrow I’ll finish getting the root canal done. It will be nice to eat normal foods again so far I’ve gotten really good at making mashed potatoes. This week I learned how to make Apple sauce, it was so good. I’ve really enjoyed learning how to do random things on my mission. Did I ever tell you that I can bind books now? They look sweet and are really easy to make.


Well got to get going love you all hope to hear from you soon if you don’t know my email address its lisa.ferguson@myldsmail.net


HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Fergie