It's almost December!

Sister Madison and I all bundled up for the snow outside!

Sveiki!

It has been such a wonderful week this past week! On Monday we were invited to a member's house for Thanksgiving dinner with the other missionaries, so 11 total. The members are from America, so we had a real Thanksgiving dinner. They special ordered a turkey and everything because they are no turkeys here for some reason.  It was so great because it felt like the Thanksgivings I've had from the past. We also played ping pong with the Russian elders in the church as part of preparation day.

P-day Ping Pong with the Russian Elders who challenged themselves to a game using the reflection of the ball off the glass doors.

On Tuesday we had a Russian language thought with the Russian elders. So they taught us how to read the Russian alphabet! Oh man, I am grateful I don't have to speak Russian! We just learned basic phrases to say in contacting because there a few people we meet who only speak Russian. So we are kind of learning it. That night we were able to teach english to a member and also a non member. It was really fun to talk in english with them. They are pretty fluent, so we just discussed the gospel, and it was super great.

We also taught Rimantas, an investigator who isn't too interested in the gospel, but we hope he eventually gains the desire to investigate further. It turned into a crazy lesson because our members kind of went off about spaceships and random prophets, so next time we will practice the lesson with them first before we meet with him again. It was good though. While we were there we used the member's bathroom and it made me really grateful for a toilet. She lives in a bendrab, where they have tiny one room apartments and a community kitchen and bathroom. The community bathroom is just a hole in the ground, no toilet at all! I was super surprised and have been grateful for an actual toilet ever since then.

Our Thanksgiving dinner that we made: kicken Chicken, Rimi rolls, cooked spinach that tasted like mushy pumpkins, and mashed potatoes :)

On Thanksgiving we attended a concert at the church put on by an investigator. She played the violin for us all, and it was super cool. She made the church library into her dressing room, so it was pretty intense :) It was a great concert though.

On Friday a member from Kaunas took us out to lunch. That was so cool to meet with a normal member of the church. She is amazing and just so sweet. She speaks english and Lithuanian, so that was super fun to practice lithuanian with her. 

There have also been a few random nights with fireworks going off. Apparently you can blast off aerial fireworks any time of the year, so I woke up to a few of those right oustide our apartment one night this week. It is pretty cool to watch them on random days like that!

I really do know that Heavenly Father answers our prayers. He is willing and waiting to hear from us. Because He loves us, He will answer us. We need to put forth the work in order to get the answer. I know that He knows each of us individually and that He loves all of His children. I know that He will help us if we go to Him. I love you all so much.

Love Sese Dzerman

All the sisters with Sister Harding and Klebingot on the left

This is just one of our many face masks that we do

This is the snow outside from our window :)

This is fried cepeliniai from a restaurant called Forto Dvaros. They are so good. Fried potatoe flour things with meat inside. So good

This is saltibarsiai on the left and potatoes on the right. The cold beet soup. It is pretty good, tastes like the cucumbers that Ruth makes when we go to Iowa, just in pink soup form :)

We made fried honey bananas. They are super good. They reminded me of Brett's mission, so had to send a picture. Super good!

Just some more cool graffiti underground in a tunnel