Elder Austin Whiting

Hey guys. So this week flew by. Dang. Well this week was pretty sweet. We gained 5 new investigators this past week. 2 of them we're already dropping bc they're not interested/crazy but we'll take it. Our contacting efforts haven't been for nothing :') I guess I'll just make a list of things that happened this week because I feel like it's more fun: -Okay so this week we did service for Nina's mom (s/o Nina in Korea) and we basically got to throw rocks and chop wood so it made me feel like a man. Also she fed us some placinte (AMAZING) and compot (THE BEST DRINK IN THE WORLD) so I was in heaven basically.  -A bunch of stuff happened during the service and so it was pretty funny/dope. I smashed my middle finger on this rock and cut my finger nail so that was fun. Elder Griffeth(homie) got hit in the face with a piece of wood and now he has a gnarly black eye.  -We saw a couple lizards during this service event and the first one I picked up and t...

So honestly I don't have much to say other than the fact that it's been another week filled with contacting and not a lot of success. We still have yet to meet with someone after the initial contact so that's been a little frustrating but it's been good to talk with and meet a bunch of cool people. Also I'm not sure why but I think that this last week I talked to more people that wanted to bible bash with me. and I hate bible bashing. Especially in Russian. akjgfhk          <---- (this isn't a russian word it's just to express my hatred of bible bashing) Skipping to the interesting things: -We helped a member's mom this week work her ipad and we got fed this fat chocolate cake. blessings. -One of the street stores played Drake's new song so that was pretty cool. Still doesn't beat my Motab tho -Probably the craziest thing this week: one of my old time investigators invited us over to his house to eat this last saturday. He fed us thi...

Hey guys  Man it's been an exhausting week. And I'm going to be honest, nothing really happened. We basically got whitewashed here and we have one investigator that is iffy. So that means that we've been contacting up a storm. We've been basically spending all day contacting. And none of our contacts have been able to meet with us so it creates this cycle of never-ending contacting. Not that things have been too bad because I actually don't mind it, it's been fun to talk to lots of new people. Our members can never work with us either so that's also been hard. But life is good, the gospel is literally the greatest thing ever, and skwasniak hasn't gotten me yet so we gucci. Things this week: -There's this funny thing where the people here will do this fake spit thing whenever they don't like something or they can't say a certain word. It's really funny actually and it's hard to explain. -We were playing this game at games n...

:'( Transfers were this week so yes I had to say goodbye to the promised land of balti. But on the bright side I am in the other promised land of Chisinau again and it feels really good to be back. I'm back in the apartment that I was born in and so it's all so nostalgic. I'm also serving with Elder Volkov! And in Russian his last name translates to "of the wolves" and if that's not the sickest thing ever then I don't know what is. He's from Ukraine/Russia and we're pumped to be serving together.  There's been a bunch of changes this week because of transfers, we got called tuesday and the russians moved early because a new russian came in (elder Lindsay) and he's pretty cool, he's a шкаф. We were waiting for the 2 elders to get to balti so that me and another elder could leave but apparently they got stopped at the border and spent time in a mini cell for a lil bit. fun fun. So we waited all day for them and they showed up ...