Week 2, holding up strong

 (Elder Putnam)

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I present to you my 1st two week email streak since the MTC.

This week's main event was MLC, when I got to see Elder Nolan again. The Estonian ZL's stayed with us and brought chocolate and juice down.

On Tuesday we had district counsel which is essentially a district counsel with other districts on a zoom call. We did it with Tallin and Vilnius since they have most similar style of work to us. Afterwards we visited the Šostaki in their garden. We walked by the river on the way and there were a ton of people sunbathing there. We all just had to look down. The šostaki taught us what it meant when in the doctrine and covenants it says "be thou humble and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand..." When we got to the garden we ate some weird berries, Sister šostaka taught us how to properly wash our hands (I got it wrong the first time). We also ate waffles with jam with them. It was great. I'll include some pictures.

Tuesday was also Elder Woods' year mark so he made a video for that. As according to year mark tradition he was in the shower bath with something eatable/drinkable, this time a kebab.

On Wednesday we had a finding activity for MLC. Nothing crazy there. But we did film an awesome video for the Latvian Come Unto Christ Facebook page.

Thursday we had MLC and we decided to get rid of our mission focus in order to more fully focus on our missionary purpose. We also decided that all communications between missionaries within the Baltic mission need to be checked by our companions. That includes transfer notes but excludes notes from departing missionaries for some reason. So that doesn’t apply to me. lol

Friday and Saturday didn't really have much going on.

On Sunday however I had the opportunity to speak in Sacrament meeting. I felt inspired to speak on the sacrament itself and its importance in enduring to the end. I didn't prepare much to share, but I was able to speak as guided by the Spirit which was a really good experience.

On that note, I am preparing a training for  the missionaries at zone conference about receiving revelation, especially in regard to finding. If you have an experience from your own mission about following the guidance of the Spirit while finding on the street please share it. I'd love to tie it into the training.

Conference talk of the week: Christlike Poise from Mark A. Bragg

pictures:

1. a Georgian drink that tastes like cough syrup

2. and 3. pictures from the Šostaki's garden