This week has been crazy but so good!! I said goodbye to Riga after almost 10 months of serving there and now I'm in Liepaja! It's the cutest little town and I love it!!
But to start the week! So on Tuesday we had a lesson with a former investigator. She's super cute and loves to go on random rants. There were times when I was wondering if I was even understanding right because we would be talking about how the gospel blesses families and she would go off on wars, turns out I was and she just likes changing the topic haha. Then we had to hurry to the church for English class. Usually there are like 5 to 7 people there, but one of our amazing members Lidia from China brought a lot of her friends so we had like 25 people!! We had to pull in another companionship to help us! It was the coolest thing to see. It was honestly the best English class and we played a game where we pretended to be in a court and they all just made it so fun and were all laughing and joking around.
There is also something called "slamming" here among the missionaries. There's these cookies and if you bite the ends of them you can drink milk through it and even though I've been here for awhile I've never done it so we did as one our last nights together before I left Riga and it was a struggle for me haha but super yummy!!
Wednesday we went over to one of my favorite members house. As we were talking to her she told us how Velta had passed away. I've been visiting Velta for a good part of my mission. She was in a coma when I first got here but then we've been going over once a week to help her walk around and to read the Book of Mormon with her. It was sad hearing that but so amazing that we have the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation. That morning I had read the talk from the most recent conference by Elder Ballard and how he talks about the Plan of Salvation and how there really is a plan. Milda and us were able to talk about that and she had concerns about but through the love of Christ we were able to feel peace! After she made us waffles, she's the best!
Then Thursday! We woke up early and headed to Liepaja!! It's been a change, but it's been so good!! I love Riga and I miss it, but Liepaja is just as great! I am know serving with Sister Lewis again, I served with her earlier in my mission and she is a party! She's one of the funniest people I know!! I miss my trio but Sister Lewis makes up for it! I'm so excited for this transfer!
We got to Liepaja and got to our apartment building and decided to take just the lighter things up the stairs first and leave the last two heavy ones for after but then this nice man came and carried them up all the stairs for us!!! It was such a miracle because they were heavy haha.
This week as we were doing dropbys to our less actives we didn't have the code for one building so Sister Lewis decided to just knock on one of the windows, turns out the nicest lady lives there and she gave us the code!!
The members here in Liepaja are amazing and so welcoming! I love them already so much. There is one young women who comes every week. Her name is Leva and she's the best. We do a personal progress activity with her on Saturday and this week she taught us how to do the splits. We thought we were just going to do some stretches and that would be it, but no, she had a whole work out plan for us! It was very intense and I'm still very sore from it haha, but we have a new goal to be able to do the splits!!
One of our investigators, Ina, is also progressing great. They had a first lesson with her last week and then we met with her twice this week and she came to church! It's harder to teach her because she loves talking so we are always trying to keep it shorter haha but she has so much desire and it's been really cool to see it grow.
This week moving to a different city has been quite the experience. It's been a long time since I have had no idea where I was or where to go, but it's been a great growing experience. I've been shown ways I can improve that I would not have been able to see in Riga. God has a plan!! And He has shown me in the small ways that my plan right now is to be in Liepaja. I'm so grateful for His love through everything and I'm grateful for a gospel that never changes no matter where you are!!
Thank you for all the love and support and prayers! I feel them!! Have the best week!!
Love,
Masa Brunere
Pics:
1: last pday!
2: my cute mom (trainer) is home!
3: Karosta!
4: we were pretty proud of our heart attacking!
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