Shashleek is rocking! It's like a shish kabob but it's so much better. None of those nasty vegetables, which seem to be hard to find around here. We've been cooking some in the apartment and eating out some. We found a nice pizza place where they know us so well we basically just come in, tell them how many pizzas we want and they know the toppings for us. Amazing eh?
I met some people who has been to Hot Springs and Mena yesterday. They were very nice and knew all about the U of A and the HOGS. We had a picnic with them and talked all about things they liked about America and things we liked about Russia.
I've also befriended some kids here at the girls' place. We play frisbee and they give me awesome tatoos and speak in Russian and a little english to me. They're very cool kids.
The team ate lunch at Timur and Ira's house yesterday. We had beef stroganoff. Very tasty. The have a daughter named Karina who the girls are in love with. She's cute, but afraid of me. Timur is a minister here and he's an amazing guy. He has some very deep thoughts and truly loves the Lord as much as any man I've ever met.
Speaking of the team, we've been having a good time with our RFC studies. On Mondays we meet to sing and talk about how an Old testament story relates to us now. On Fridays we meet to sing and one person has a devo. This Monday we are not meeting, as we are going to the Chernashofca, which is the half way house. A man is going to be baptised there, so we are VERY excited. All in all, we're getting along great. the girls have many more studies than us guys, but us guys have many more contacts in the Universities. Two guys, Slava and Ivan took us all over town looking for postcards and gifts and X3. They are really nice and I hope the AIM students can bring them even closer into the group here.
Well I skipped first service today to attend second service and find stuff for poppyseed chicken. It turns out that first and second service are basically indentical, so hopefully I didn't miss much.