P-Day goodbyes!  On P-day, the zone met at a nearby Ukrainian restaurant for our last dinner together. Great missionaries, great times, great memories! 

Here you can see the atmosphere of the little restaurant where we ate.  They make every booth seem like you are eating around the table at home. Cozy!  The food was amazing.

On Monday night we open our home to anyone that is the only member in their family for Family Home Evening.  If they have other members, they are encouraged have it with their own family.  The young people often bring many of their non-member friends.  Kent and I teach gospel related lessons that are geared to the young adults.  They love men/women relationship type topics.  We often play games afterwards and of course, I fix a treat.  That in itself is a feat...trying to find the ingredients for my recipes! Many of the younger people in Russia know how to speak some English. We speak some Russian, they speak some English and we have a great time together! At this activity, we had sixteen young people attend.

Signs of Spring...I may be getting my hopes up but when we were on a walk I took this to mean: Spring does exist in Russia!  Here one worker breaks up the layers of ice on the sidewalk and the other hauls it off behind the building in his little cart.

I don't know how they do it, but many of the women walk around on the icy sidewalks in these boots with six inch high heels! The other gal in the picture has boots more to my liking.  Notice the beautiful fur coats both are wearing. I have never seen so many beautiful coats and hats.

Even the evergreen trees have to have a layer of protection from the harsh temperatures.

With warmer temps, we deal with this. I still don't get how the snow melts when it hasn't been above freezing but anyway, when the snow melts, we get to walk through mud, puddles of mud and more mud!  No one seems to mind, they are used to getting their boots, shoes, tights, long coats and...

suit pants muddy.  Every night Elder Pocock has to let it dry and then brush it off.  Welcome Spring!!!

The people in Perm are enjoying their new trolley buses...saves on the shoes and clothing!

Whatever will they do with all of the snow???  After I took all of these pics and talked of Spring...it snowed off and on all week.  I won't talk of Spring until I see buds on the trees!