Carrol Gunnell- Missionary in Russia
Hello Classmates: Wish we could be to the Bear River High reunion. We will be home September 6th, a little late for the reunion. Darrell said he would like a blurb about what we have been up to. Well this is our second mission. The first was an 18 month mission to Nigeria where it is so very hot, this mission is for 24 months and the winters are very, very cold. Both missions were tough, but this Russian mission, I think, is tough because of the language. We have really tried hard to learn the language but that isn’t one of our gifts. When we go teaching, we need the Elders to go with us. Speaking in meetings we need the Elders, etc. We are teaching English to the Russians, members and non member, twice a week. Sister Gunnell teaches the beginners and I teach the advanced. (I, who got D’s in English at BRHS.) We have baptized a few of our students, so whatever works. The Church is growing very slowly, but it is growing. There are no Stakes as yet but some of the areas are close. The people are a wonderful people and it will be a sad day when we have to say our goodbye’s to them. The food is fantastic. We love the food, probably too much as we are gaining a little around the middle. We live in a city called Talyatti, population 85,000. The city is a little Detroit as it has one of the biggest automobile plants in Russia. The city has the Volga River flow through it and we are surrounded by a beautiful forest. My short blurb is getting long so I will close now. I will be thinking of all you classmates during the reunion.
Elder Carrol Gunnell
Hello Classmates: Wish we could be to the Bear River High reunion. We will be home September 6th, a little late for the reunion. Darrell said he would like a blurb about what we have been up to. Well this is our second mission. The first was an 18 month mission to Nigeria where it is so very hot, this mission is for 24 months and the winters are very, very cold. Both missions were tough, but this Russian mission, I think, is tough because of the language. We have really tried hard to learn the language but that isn’t one of our gifts. When we go teaching, we need the Elders to go with us. Speaking in meetings we need the Elders, etc. We are teaching English to the Russians, members and non member, twice a week. Sister Gunnell teaches the beginners and I teach the advanced. (I, who got D’s in English at BRHS.) We have baptized a few of our students, so whatever works. The Church is growing very slowly, but it is growing. There are no Stakes as yet but some of the areas are close. The people are a wonderful people and it will be a sad day when we have to say our goodbye’s to them. The food is fantastic. We love the food, probably too much as we are gaining a little around the middle. We live in a city called Talyatti, population 85,000. The city is a little Detroit as it has one of the biggest automobile plants in Russia. The city has the Volga River flow through it and we are surrounded by a beautiful forest. My short blurb is getting long so I will close now. I will be thinking of all you classmates during the reunion.
Elder Carrol Gunnell
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