So its been a really interesting week with some ups and downs for sure. We've been getting poured on over the past week and its been fun. We were playing volleyball this past week and it was really nice in the beginning but then we saw a huge storm coming in super fast but Elder Dumbrell said "don't worry guys it will only be like 5 minutes" and then 20 minutes later its absolutely pouring and he is still saying "only 5 more minutes" and it continued to rain all night. Good times.

Balti has been pretty crazy lately and there's a bunch of drama with everyone and so it's been a fun rollercoaster ride. And being a missionary is fun because you're in the middle of it all (yee yee). I also had some friends from Chisinau come and visit me yesterday during church so that was a fun little surprise.

I learned this lil song in Russian that goes "Я горячий мексиканец выходи со мной на танец, а не то я всю твою проведаю семью." and if you want a good laugh you can put that in google translate. I've been singing it a bunch recently.

Nothing is really new with the missionary work here. There are so many awesome people here who are so close to baptism but there's always one problem or another that keeps them back and I'm just like frustrated because the GOSPEL IS SO TRUE AND IT CHANGES LIVES FOR THE BETTER. ahh being a missionary is so great and so frustrating having to deal with free agency of people lol.
Also the members here are great and I straight up love everyone here in Balti. 

Other than that I don't have much to report but I have a cool scripture: 3 Nephi 19:35
And it came to pass that when Jesus had made an end of praying he came again to the disciples, and said unto them: So great faith have I never seen among all the Jews; wherefore I could not show unto them so great miracles, because of their unbelief. 
I read this scripture during the week and something I thought was interesting is how Jesus says that He "could not" show them great miracles because of their unbelief. He was literally not able to show them great miracles because of their lack of faith. This means a lot to me because it means that if we have great faith then it can unlock those great blessings and we can see miracles in these latter-days.

Love you all! 

-Старейшина Уайтинг

p.s С днём рождения Кэйт! ты моя самая любимая сестра.









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