Tomorrow's Tuesday

September 9, 2019

Tomorrow’s Tuesday

მეგობრები!

How much has happened this week? I don't really know. Last Monday, we took some time to go around Tbilisi. We also went to სამება, the big main church here in Georgia. It's HUGE and very beautiful. If I'm not mistaken, the government helps fund this cathedral. Seems weird, but I won't judge. We went and got some ხაჭაპური and ხინკალი. Yes that is three eggs in that ხაჭაპური photo.

We went on a split this week. It was fun to see a different area and how other Missionaries do things. While on the exchange, a man from the Dominican Republic, who said he was ethnically Jewish but Christian, saw us and asked for a Book of Mormon. We didn't have one at the time, but we got his number and we're gonna get one to him. He also asked us who Melchizedek is for us. We told him we believe he was a great king and high priest and that Abraham paid tithes to him. He was like, "ya sounds good to me." We also met with a guy from Saudi that just got back from visiting home. He's a great friend of the Missionaries. He brought back some non-alcoholic malt beer and it was quite tasty. He says he always asks the new Missionaries why they decided to come on a mission. I told him my story of why and was super impressed. He said he's always amazed at the Missionaries putting our lives on hold to learn a terribly hard language for religion. He says he would join our church because he loves it and always feels the spirit when he comes to church, but he doesn't want to feel that he's committing a sin against Islam. He's very supportive though.

We are always looking for ways to serve, but it's very hard. The people here just want to serve us. We have to get creative sometimes. Sometimes it's translating or doing voice overs for things. We'll see what more we can do. Anyways.

Something very interesting here is that many people have spiritual experiences and they recognize them. They are usually pretty open about them as well. We have very interesting conversions with people about religion and when they've felt God in their lives. We try to leave a commitment with everyone we talk with, so a lot of the time it is having them look for God's hand in their lives more. So will you all do that this week? Neato.

See you soon!

 A giant xachapuri

A snail on my hand at the Hostel

Non-alcholic beer from Saudi Arabia

Sameba and roses

Giant rock at Sameba

Sister missionaries looking at stray dogs

Views of Tbilisi