Feb. 12, 2007

Dear Family,

Hey how's everthing going?

Well here it is. I am leaving on Monday. Oh yeah! Just look at it all those 5-8 hour layover and 12 hour flights. I know that you are jealous. I am really excited. I keep having these moments where I think that I don't know, but I know that everything is going to be OK. I will learn alot faster when I am out there. There are sometimes when I am a little scared, but they don't last very long.

So other than that everything is good. I just need to make sure that I don't make myself forget Russian. Last Saturday Elder Krogue and I had a TEC (where we were planning on teaching the 2nd lesson) Brother Stratford, who went to Russia or Ukarine on his mission. It was so awesome I don't have time to write you the whole story but we went in to teach and all of a sudden he was telling us that his life was hard and full of trails (he was playing the role of an investigator) and Krogue and I suddenly became sincerely concerned for this "investigator" and all of the sudden the Spirit took control of the lesson and in the end we (The Spirit) committed him to baptism. One big thing that I learned is that you don't have to know the lanuage perfectly to teach by the Spirit, when the Spirit is the one in control. We stumbled though what the Spirit was telling us to say, but we always were able to say it some other way or something, but we always said what the Spiri told us. It was amazing.

So, I finaly got a letter from Tyler. Spain, that's so awesome. Well I guess I'm out of paper to write on so I guess that's it.

Elder O'Dair (written in Russia)