Monday, December 22, 2008

For the past two weeks we have rode bus #187 to the mission office, church etc. and on Sundays we go about 9 a.m. catch the bus and get there for Sacrament at 10 but today we waited until after 9:30 and no bus 187 ever came. It was snowing and cold and my feet felt like planks of wood. Finally we went back to the apartment got a Metro map and rode the Metro we were worried because we have never done it coming from this way and usually it takes us awhile to find the station once you get under ground however we did it pretty fast but by the time we got to the Church building we were 40 minutes late. When we got to the Church the building was locked like it always is but usually there is someone sitting on the couch so they push the button and let us in but today since we were late no one was there so we had to push the doorbell there were four of them and we didn't know which one to push. The Church has three floors plus the mission office is on the one side of the first floor and each has a button but we didn't know which button for which place so we just pushed all four buttons over and over again. While we were standing there Tom said "Whatever happened to the slogan-everyone welcome-come in-kneel down-pray". Finally the door unlocked. So we didn't get into Sacrament until 10:50, Church starts at 10:00, needless to say Church went very fast today. After Church we waited around for about an hour to get our water filters from the office couple then we walked the 20 minutes to the bus stop and got on bus 187 but it turned down some side roads and finally stopped and said "all off" (well I guess that is what he said because everyone got off so we did to) and the bus turned around and went back the way it had came. We were a long ways from our apartment so we had to walk another 30 minutes but I think that solved the mystery as to why there was no bus 187 this morning it doesn't come down our street anymore why not I have no clue. So we left for Church at 9 a.m. and didn't get home until between 3 and 3:30 p.m. Just another typical day in Russia!!!

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