Hello from a not so snowy anymore St Petes!

Well, the snow has mostly gone now, as it rained on Sunday, but if anything is coming out of the sky now it is usually white and it is really cold out there! Hopefully we will have some more snow soon. I met a girl yesterday who said that at 17 she was too old to make a snowman. I beg to differ there!

I was invited to a baby shower for one of the members of the Russian team on Sunday night. It was good fun, and the games there involved tasting baby food, making a potato or a banana into either a newborn baby or a pregnant woman, by decorating it with cotton wool, ribbons and paper. Our group decided to go for a woman giving birth which was very funny. We also had to make a lullaby using an existing song but changing the words. The group that won that one used Britney Spear’s “Baby one more time” and changed the words to something like “Oh baby baby, how was I supposed to know, that you would not go to sleep…” A good time was had by all!

On Saturday evening we ran an event where we explained the Gospel in 10 minutes to all the students that had said that they wanted to hear it, and also for those who had won the prize of a memory stick. Of those, 7 people showed up, and only one of them had won a memory stick. This was obviously quite disappointing, but I think that those who came really enjoyed it and were ready to listen to what we had to say to them. One of them came to the Believers Group to find out more, which is very exciting.

This week has somehow involved eating lots of sushi. Russian people love sushi, and it is also quite cheap here – one restaurant does a happy hour where you can get 2 for the price of one! I went with Jo on Friday in our discipleship coaching time, as we both like it. Then it was decided over the weekend that we would go on Monday, our day off with some of our friends from church here – Sonia and Jo. Then, we had already arranged that we would meet one of the students and go and eat sushi with her and her friend yesterday… I think if I’m not careful I will start to look like a piece of raw fish!

Right, I think that is all I have time for today, as I need to go and get some lunch!

Lots of love

Sarah

xxx