Hello from a snowy St Petes!
Winter arrived right on time this week, with the first snow last Sunday morning. It is very exciting and I have turned back into an excited kid for the week. However, it is also quite cold, with temperatures around 0º (actually, the TV told us at midnight last night, i.e. 00.00 the temperature was 0.0º… Little things!)
We decided last week to take the Believers Group and their friends on a day out. We went to Tsarskoe Selo, which is one of the Imperial Palaces. We didn’t go into the palace itself, but went for a walk round the park there. It was a really beautiful day with a dusting of snow on the ground – just enough for a good snowball fight. It was quite cold, but laughing and throwing snow at each other soon warmed us up, and a good time was had by all.
Other than that, this has just been a usual week. We invited Indira and a friend over for dinner on Friday evening, then we had a mammoth session with her on Saturday – we spent 4 hours together. We started with a Bible study, then did some training, and then I went out to do some evangelism with her. We only met one girl, and we did a survey with her about love. I’m really glad we met her, as when we asked her how God shows His love for us, she started to cry because she had a friend who had died last Wednesday when some drug addict friends had spiked her drink. It was a shocking example of how the drugs culture is so prevalent here and how damaging it is to the lives of the students.
On Sunday we went to Church as normal, and then we had our usual girls pie session afterwards. Only this time, a boy called Harrison who is in our Believers Group, decided to come along too. He didn’t realise that he was the only guy until we were jus about to start eating, and then I thought he was going to leave. I think he enjoyed the session, although I think Luke may take him for lunch instead next time. It was a very interesting group, as it was the biggest that it has been yet, and of the 7 of us there, only 2 were native Russian speakers. Despite this, we worked in Russian (or mostly!)
Last night, we had another SSK follow up pizza party. We decided that the best way to follow up such a large number of people together is to run an event for them all, and share the “essence of the Bible in 10 minutes” with them all together. We are going to hold that on Saturday evening, in our Church building to give credence to the proceedings. We rang loads of students to invite them there. It was good fun. Qifeng and Indira came to help us, and were great.
Right, I am going to have to get on and learn some language!
Lots of love
Sarah
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