First we celebrated the beginning of missionary work in Novokuznetsk by going to a high place across the river overlooking the city where the first missionaries met to dedicated Novokuznetsk to missionary work and introduced the city to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There were eleven of us.
The second was a birthday party for the city of Novokuznetsk. Thousands participated.
They both had music
they both had food
they both had activities and games
one had a fire the other had fireworks
they both included a lot of walking
Eleven people attended the first one while thousands attended the second.
The second one was fun but the first one had eternal consequences.
What the small group of eleven commemorated was potentially far more important for the city of Novokuznetsk than the meeting of thousands.
Starting the fire with two sticks (matchsticks)
Cooking the hot dogs
Lots of food
Singing
Someone discovered this swing. It looked like an old fire hose tied to a stick. They had a lot of fun with it.
Elder Patten
Mary
Galya
Elder Прокопцев (Prokoptsev)
And last but not least, our fearless branch president,
President Ivan
We ran out of space on our camera, so we're hoping to get some pictures from others for the evening festivities to post on a future blog.
This week's Russianism:
Anyone who thinks Siberia is a vast frozen area is sadly mistaken. There are many large cities (Novokuznetsk is about 600,000 people, N'sibirsk is well over a million) and the people are wonderful. Temperatures last week according to the forecast (we don't watch the news to find out how hot it actually was) hovered in the 90s and got over 100 one day. We're even slowly kind of acclimating to the humidity!
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