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“Hello!” in Russian. We received our call Wednesday Feb.9th - and opened it with the family and loved ones gathered in our home. "Dear Elder Cook...You are hereby called to serve as a missionary...as an auditor..." Dear Sister Cook, You are hereby called...as an assistant to the auditor..."
Assigned to labor in the Europe East Area headquartered in Moscow, Russia. We are to enter the Missionary Training Center on Monday June 13, 2011 to serve for twenty three months.
We know a little about Russia since Elder Adam KYK (Cook) served in the Russian Samara Mission from 1997 - 1999 - we went over to pick him up from his mission. Dave said it would be a "once in a lifetime adventure and opportunity to see Russia and that part of the world and he didn't want to miss it"... In 2007 we returned to Moscow with the Springville Museum of Art to go on a River Cruise up the Volga River to St. Petersburg...and now we are going to have another "once in a lifetime adventure and opportunity and then some...
The Europe East Area consists of Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Estonia; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Latvia; Lithuania; Republic of Macedonia; Montenegro; Russia; Serbia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan.
Opening and reading our call - Feb 9, 2011 - Tiffany took our picture and put it on Face Book as we read the words.
It was really cool to see you open your call. It was like watching adam's all over again. I think I was holding the camera then too. Russia is getting some great people. Good luck!
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