A Trip to the Villages

The group by the equipment are Elder Holmes, from Moscow and myself along with the head of the Farmers Co-op, in the tie and the farmers from the village that use the baler they are standing in front of.

On the way to the village, we passed by this old crane, left over from the old Soviet Union days. It hasn't been used in a while judging from the current occupants. When is the last time you saw a stork nesting on a crane? We always thought that storks lived on chimneys and brought babies.

















After we looked at some of the equipment we visited one farm house and the children played the piano and sang for us. They were really good. The girls said they knew an English song which they sang, Jingle Bells. The family had a beautiful garden in their back yard.


We then went to another house where they had prepared a BBQ for us. We have never seen so much food on one table. The table was set beautifully, with a lace table cloth and fine china. The main course was pork which was prepare on spits over coals from grape plants. The flavor was wonderful. We ate and ate.

As we were leaving each of the three places that we visited, they brought out sacks of their farm fresh produce, fruits and vegetables. There was far more than we could use so after we took a little bit for ourselves, we sent the rest to a meeting that the Church Employment Missionaries were holding and the members got the rest. We heard that it was the hit of the meeting.

The picture with the family includes our Mission President and his wife, President and Sister Carter. They accepted our invitation for the trip.