Elder Austin Whiting

Hey everyone! It's been quite the week here and there's been lots of ups and downs but in the end it's been great bc being a missionary is great. The only problem with loving people here so much is that it's hard when they don't keep commitments bc you know it will help them and thE GOSPEL IS SO GREAT AND IT CHANGES LIVES.  Короче I love being a missionary.  I forgot to mention last week that me and elder martindale went on an exchange and so this week I had an exchange with elder Lindsey and it was a blast. We went out to this small village to teach one of their investigators and he's such a cutie. We also had to walk like 45 minutes to a slightly bigger village to catch a bus to a bigger village called Balti. We basically just walked through farms and it was rad. We also got to do some service this week for a member named Sister Evghenia. She's so sweet. She's also probably the toughest old lady I've ever seen and she doesn't take a...

Hey how is everyone doing? I'm just great thank you. We headed down to Chisinau again this week which means another 4 hour маршрутка ride. They're actually so fun and we've met some cool people on them. It's not really sketchy at all some guy just says "hey chisinau?" and I'm like "yeah" and then he says "hop in my van" and so we hop in his van and it's fun. We had zone conference this week which means I'm more pumped than ever to do missionary work and we talked a lot about time management so I'm also ready to be a successful business man. But the coolest part about it was when he asked the question "Does God have faith?" and we all just lost our minds. We were all discussing it and then we started to get into deeper questions about the character of God and at that point we were supposed to eat lunch but nobody cared because we just wanted to keep talking about it and it was so cool. Also the answer is YES i...