Week 16: WOw

Hello everyone,

This week was a good one. We got 2 new investigators this week. One of them we met at a bookstore when we were just speaking English. He came up to us and started speaking English. We asked him if he likes ping pong and lo and behold he is our investigator. The other one came to the church and told us that he wants his kid to grow up with some good friends and how he feels like there is a piece missing in his soul. Well, he came to the right place. Our investigators are so strong and they were definitely prepared by the Lord. I started to learn how to play chess and I can just say that I still suck but I'm getting better. 

On Thursday we went to Rostov because my companion had MLC so I had to go on splits. It ended up being a trio. I was with 2 elders who came from the MTC a week and a half ago. LIGIT that was an experience. I was the man of the house there. While trying to track down a less active, this guy told us to leave and I understood it but the two other elders didn't.  I was trying to get them to leave because they were just standing there. We never found that family but it was a good experience.

Love everyone- keep doing good things!

Elder M Franckowiak

 

 

Week 15: zdrasvute

Hello everyone,

This week was a good week.  I got a new companion. His name is Elder Altohov and he was actually born in Latvia. He moved to the United States when he was 5 though. 

Our baptismal date is now set for November 4th for one of our investigators who is from Africa. We still have to fit in a couple more lessons with him before his baptism. We have also been working really hard to make the branch more self reliant and try to help them ask other members for help as well. I hope that goes well.

I think that that is basically it.

Elder M Franckowiak

Week 14: Transfers

Hey family. I don't have a lot of time this week so I won't be sending a group email. It was a good week. We have a baptism date for the 28 of October for one of our Africans. The weather is definently getting colder. Went to Armania this week and it was dope. I loved it. We had fried ice cream. My companion will be Elder Altohove. My trainer trained Elder Altahove as well. I'm staying here in Krasnodar though. 

Love you guys, sorry I'm out of time!!

Elder Franckowiak

Week 13: Week in mission

дорогие братья и сестры

     This week was good, it was a really long week. On Tuesday we had 8 elders over at our apartment. All 4 of the elders from Crimea and the 2 elders in Sochi. There were 5 Russian elders and 4 of them didn't speak English. That was a crazy time. 2 days ago there was a less active who moved to Sochi who wanted to meet. When he came, he came with 2 other people and they all had bibles. I didn't understand what they were saying but I understood what they were doing. This meeting thing went on for about 2 hours. After, Elder Powell told me what they were saying. They were all worked up and said that our church was false because our Sabbath day is on Sunday and not Saturday. Apparently we will surly die because we "break the Sabbath day" good stuff. It was a good week.  

Love everyone!

Elder M Franckowiak

sup, 

This week was good, we had zone conference and it was good. It was l4 of our youth's birthdays last week so on Friday we had a birthday party for all of them. I was lost the whole time. The young women made scripture cases for the young men a couple weeks ago and I didn't get one so I was pretty confused because Elder Powell got one. Then I figured out who was suppose to be making mine and kind of teased her about it. And then she brought it to the birthday party and it was actually good. I got my pants tailored because honestly I looked like a fool with my pants looking like parachute pants. haha. I also got a track suit that looks way dope. I didn't get a picture though because I haven't had time. I haven't yet bought a huge hat. Conference was way dope, I learned a lot. 

 

love all

Elder M Franckowiak

Week 12: привет!

Hello family and friends,

This week was a good one. We got a lot of lessons in this week. On Wednesday the Sochi elders and we had 8 lessons set up between the 2 companionships. 

I went on splits with Elder Бобровский, a native Russian. It actually went better then I thought and I could communicate more then I thought. It also helped

because he has been learning English in his mission so we went half Russian and half English. I found out that he knew Zack from the Spain MTC.  We had 3 lessons in the branch and 1 at the recent convert's house.

The other 2 elders traveled from one side of Krasnodar to the other and back and got in 2 lessons. I would say that it was a pretty successful day. 

The weather here was super hot and then in 1 day it just turned to windy and cold. It was super weird but I love it. It was too hot here. 

The past 2 Sundays we have had some random guy walk in the church and wants to learn more about our church. It's so cool how prepared they are to hear the

message that we have to share with them. It's getting better to understand Russian and I am excited to learn more.

Love you all!

Elder M Franckowiak