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| Banana splits in Russia? This is Shura, our YSA leader. (She just moved to Moscow) |
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| This young violinist performed at youth conference. He was OUTSTANDING! This is a picture of him when he came off the stage down onto the floor while the kids were dancing. |
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| Alina and Karen. Alina is one of the young girls from Kazakhstan who was baptized at the conference. |
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| One of the classes at the youth conference. |
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| Pres. Gibbons baptizing Alina |
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| Another picture of the baptism |
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| As Karen said, pigeons are respected and almost revered here in Russia. So they become very unafraid of humans. |
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| First day of school! This was taken near our apartment. They have a tradition over here that every year on September 1st they celebrate going back to school. The boys dress up in their sunday finest and the girls also dress up and put these beautiful white bows in their hair. They are always a white delicate fabric. Then when school actually starts (this year it was 2 days later because of the weekend) they wear those same ribbons to school. |
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| "Stolby Park" with the Young Single Adults and the missionaries. |
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| More Stolby Park |
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| Some of the missionaries in our district at Stolby Park. |
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| More Stolby Park. |
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| The doughnut stand in Stolby Park. |
Those are neat pictures. It is fun to see the pictures of things you tell us about over skype...like the beautiful white bows in the girls hair. Love the updates.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how beautiful STOLby park is. It looks like a rain forest.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is great! I love all the pictures. I feel like you are just on a great vacation:) We love you!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful park and what a powerful story about the baptisms. That would never happen in San Diego.
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