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on to get instructions and discuss challenges they face in their cities we often house some of them overnight between sessions of the conference after the first night of this zlc we were to house 6 elders and so we all went down to the garage at the mission home together in the elevator to get the offered ride from president trejo the first challenge of this event was getting stuck in the elevator for 40 minutes after the building manager called someone to rescue us they had to jack up the elevator car to the proper level so the door could open finally we got our ride as promised we have only two actual beds in the extra bedroom of our apartment so the other four elders had to be creative it has become a bit of a status symbol to get your name on the simmons wall of fame and so those who have not slept here are anxious to do so before we are released and leave for home we started this wall shortly after we arrived when we needed to house a sick sister so that her companion could continue to work with a member as her companion we got her to put her name on the wall and it grew from there we have several notables a couple of semi notables and three almosts the notables include some people from the moscow service center the masons who did audit training and the kirbishly s who headed a program for returned missionaries we also had several long termers like the bowdens who stayed more than twenty nights and our friend lelia from south dakota who was the only one of our friends to actually come and visit us in siberia we also had several sisters stay over sister tymochko stayed a week for some reason that i forget and several transient sisters stayed one night and then there were the almosts like elder mcbride who never stayed overnight but did take a nap in the room one day and elder hinkson who never actually laid down in the guest room but napped on our couch after three different zlc events while waiting for his bus this particular night we had three in the bedroom two on beds and one on a foam pad in the living room we had the other three on the couch the pull out bed and another foam pad here they are trying to decide who will sleep where we suspended the rules and gave all of them room on the wall so that was eliminated from the discussion our office elders just don t get a chance to get their names on the wall because they live just a few blocks from us it is a status they will not achieve but they are high on our list of great elders they help us protect us support us carry our groceries up the stairs and call our taxis we could not ask for more from them but if we did they would perform we love our office elders all is well now among our 6 elders and the night passed peacefully we enjoy having them and make every effort to make them comfortable and happy life for a missionary in siberia is tough enough and we can only soften the edges we pray for them all each morning and night for their safety and success what a great bunch of young men what a country ds posted by grampa doug at 1 39 am 2 comments tuesday april 20 2010 the packing monster the packing monster weather high overcast warming temp 60f wind 15 25 mph packing to go home is a monster it haunts you for weeks and then you finally have to face it how can i defeat this monster is it possible can i actually get my clothes shoes coats books music nesting dolls wooden shot glass paintings love gifts from members cosmetics bathing suit which i never wore white shirts that are now two sized too big two year old suits that i love but hang like a gunnysack on me two years worth of ysa fireside lessons and sacrament meeting talks dvd s alfalfa seeds i didn t sprout sprouting trays porterhouse seasoning sister cindy didn t consume levies and three casual shirts i never wore six backup name tags i never wore twenty pair of shoes sister cindy never wore etc how do you plan your needs for two years in a place you have never even heard of let alone have been to and now what do you take home of what you never used because it s still good and we might need it some day it was a daunting challenge to guess and then pack ship or ask from home things you imagine you will need or thought you still needed the truth is and i hope that we have learned to some degree that we don t need all this stuff however you do need a stain stick once in a while and a band aide or two but come on we are leaving several suitcases of stuff to the locals because we just can t take it home whether here in novosibirsk or in sacramento we really don t need most of the stuff we have we have lived for 18 of the 23 months with the knowledge that you just don t need much stuff a couple pair of shoes warm weather clothes cold weather clothes and your scriptures that s it well maybe a bit of an overstatement but truly we didn t need most of what we brought shipped or had shipped to us here for those of you planning a mission leave most of your stuff at home you won t need or have time to use most of what you bring you need your sweats and apron for watching general conference two week late on the dvd you need a warm coat so you can make the trip out to the dumpster on the street without suffering frostbite but mostly you need to bring with you your life long skills a little of what you learned in primary and sunday school and a genuine love for people i brought my love for music in spite of my lack of technical skills and was appreciated for what i did have people are the best part of every mission well i haven t been on every mission i haven t even been on any mission away from home but this one but i have a deep sense of love and loss at leaving the people here and i suspect that the people missionaries and members are the core of every missionary service experience our replacements the mccauleys from eagle idaho are already learning this sure there are cultural clashes and outright disappointments but as a whole it is a great experience if you want to be really loved serve a mission if you want to really love deeply love serve a mission if you are lonely serve a mission if you think that no one knows you exist and you could suffer spontaneous combustion at your local mall in total anonymity serve a mission if you think no one needs what you know or have serve a mission it is the most enveloping consuming loving thing that i have ever done and after i say hi to my children and grand kids tell some stories to my friends and we decide what to do with our house i am ready to go again ok i will enjoy one season of really ripe tomatoes and peas picked fresh but trust me you don t need all that stuff and the place to put your stuff and the locks to protect your stuff and the dog to guard your stuff and the insurance to replace your stuff dump it all and come serve missions most of the people you know will miss you only when they get your emails once you are gone they will go on with their lives and do whatever is in front of them even your family you are a nice memory and they are happy to see you again when you return but not like the people that you left in the mission of course it is very cool to have your grandparents on a mission somewhere but the people in the mission they actually need you they actually benefit from your being there they don t have 26 other things they could and should be doing while they are with you they need you don t get me wrong please i love my friends and my family they are a great treasure i love the time i have and will again spend with them the point is they don t need me in the mission field the new friends the missionaries the members the investigators the mission leadership even the people you can t talk to they need me us and i feel that love that comes from a met need yes even those that cannot talk to us nor we to them have come up at church with tears in their eyes and thanked us for being here and expressed their love babushkas with a long history in the church here try to thank us for just being here they have seen missionary couples come and go but they actually value us they need our example our experience and our support we have not had many of them in our home and can only say a brief hello at church to most of them but they value our being here families like the drachyov family give us all they have and we feel filled when we think that our apartment is a little well a lot shabby we visit a family like this and appreciate what we have even here what they have they value and what they value they share so now what well we will try to vanquish the packing monster and get each of our two 50 lb checked bags to actually weigh 50 lbs well maybe 70 lbs for one of them we will get the matryoshka dolls and the scarves and the pictures and the unused alfalfa seeds into the luggage and we will go home for a while but not for ever maybe i will get soft and comfortable at home and forget these feelings maybe i will lose these memories of those we have learned to love and forget how it felt maybe but right now i don t think so i intend to print these two years of blogs into a book and keep it out to remind me i guess we will just have to see what an experience what a country ds posted by grampa doug at 8 26 pm 5 comments labels do monday april 12 2010 remonting the office 4 12 10 remonting the office weather heavy cloud cover snow temp 31f at 11 15 am wind 2 3 mph two weeks ago they started to remodel remount the mission office library room into an office for the employees olga and pyotr and making a conference room for meetings this will create a larger entry waiting area for visiting missionaries and guests to give them space and keep them from wandering around the office and impeding the work this project started a year ago when two of the employees supervisors came for a visit and said that all employees including the accountant needed to be together in a single area that idea was rejected by president mickelsen and seemed to die but here the wishes of a superior do not die easily the idea surfaced several times during the ensuing year until a couple of months ago when sasha ozherelev announced that the library was going to be converted to offices and only a small supply of the materials from it would be stored in my old work area and the space formerly occupied by the copier fax and supply cabinet while the majority of the supplies would be stored in shelves newly constructed at the left bank chapel where sasha has his office this is several miles away would require longer range planning control would mean sister gushchina would have to work in both places and would take most of her stuff out of her control sacha made the drawings he and president trejo agreed on the plan and sister gushchina was surprised when instructed to move her supplies out of the library in a hurry for the construction to begin in a couple of days sister cindy and i did not know that she had such a short time to act on those instructions or that she needed help and we missed an opportunity to support our friend not good no one offered to help her and only the office elders came to her rescue quite by accident because they happened to be working late and saw she was in trouble it was very unfortunate after the rush to move out julia was finally brought into the discussion and pointed out some flaws in the plan which caused plan b to emerge olga and pyotr didn t like that one and plan c was born sister gushchina didn t like any of the plans but that didn t have much impact on anybody each successive plan was rejected by one of the parties and finally president said enough get it done and get my office back in operation the construction is a week underway and will take at least another week the limited supplies are being stored along the hallway sorted and reorganized some staying and some going the branch supplies are under sister gushchina s care in the old paper supply area and the mission and office supplies will be under sister mccauley s care in my old work space and it is a bit of a shambles pyotr has a ton of public affairs stuff that he hasn t used in years that will have to go somewhere else maybe under his desk several lessons can come out of this one of the big ones is how you merge two cultures within the church you need to either make your best decision and ignore the discontent as has characterized russia for centuries or involve all the players from the start and negotiate the best plan you can manage either way someone will not like it but in the latter case it will not be a surprise and no one can say they were not consulted change is difficult and in this mixture of russian and american attitudes towards authority planning and change it is doubly difficult i missed several opportunities to help sasha in this process by not interfering in his job if i had it to do again i would learn from that mistake regardless the project should be finished by month s end and everyone will move forward what a country ds posted by grampa doug at 11 04 pm 1 comment some good ideas for living life some good ideas for living life i got this yesterday as an email it is supposed to have been written by regina brett 90 years old of the plain dealer cleveland ohio even if it is from some spam writer in borneo it has some good ideas for living life 1 life isn t fair but it s still good 2 when in doubt just take the next small step 3 life is too short to waste time hating anyone 4 your job won t take care of you when you are sick your friends and family will stay in touch 5 pay off your credit cards every month 6 you don t have to win every argument agree to disagree 7 cry with someone it s more healing than crying alone 8 it s ok to get angry with god he can take it 9 save for retirement starting with your first paycheck 10 when it comes to chocolate resistance is futile 11 make peace with your past so it won t screw up the present 12 it s ok to let your children see you cry 13 don t compare your life to others you have no idea what their journey is all about 14 if a relationship has to be a secret you shouldn t be in it 15 everything can change in the blink of an eye but don t worry god never blinks 16 take a deep breath it calms the mind 17 get rid of anything that isn t useful beautiful or joyful 18 whatever doesn t kill you really does make you stronger 19 it s never too late to have a happy childhood b ut the second one is up to you and no one else 20 when it comes to going after what you love in life don t take no for an answer 21 burn the candles use the nice sheets wear the fancy lingerie 22 over prepare then go with the flow 23 be eccentric now don t wait for old age to wear purple 24 the most important sex organ is the brain 25 no one is in charge of your happiness but you 26 frame every so called disaster with these words in five years will this matter 27 always choose life 28 forgive everyone everything 29 what other people think of you is none of your business 30 time heals almost everyt...