Journal Entry

Here we are in Russia and since this is not a p-day this will be short.
We are 11 hours ahead of Mountain Standard Time.
We have been welcomed and loved into the branch where
we go to church and the missionary district where we serve with the missionaries.
There are 4 young elders, 2 sisters, and one other couple with us. 
We are in Nizhniy (rhymes with dish knee) and Novgorod which
sounds like Nov (long O) gor (like gore) and od which is like odd.
There are about 3 million people here and it seems to me like most live in apartments.
There are some single family homes, but they are usually outside  the city.
The sky is mostly grey and don't see the sun much.  The city is busy
with many buses, trams, subways, motor cars, and a few motor bikes.
Lots of pedestrians.  We love it here and are excited to really get busy.
Learning Russian is another thing but slowly it is starting to come.
Today I learned to say Thanksgiving Day---Dien Blogodarna. If
I actually wrote that in Russian it wouldn't look like anything any of
us are used to seeing.  We can read Russian, very s-l-o-w-l-y.  We
almost never get the accent right, but hey, you have to start somewhere.
Next time I promise pictures.  Signing off at 22:10