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I am Jo Ellen Ashworth, and I am using the account of my niece, Sister Kristy Ashworth, who enters the MTC on September 28, 2005.
I have some information about the mission that I would be happy to mail you. If you are interested, you can e-mail me at: jo_ellen@xmission.com
1. The photo and bio of President and Sister Beus (pronounced Bee-you-s) that appeared in the LDS Church News on March 20, 2004. President Beus’s term of service is July 1, 2004, to June 30, 2007. Following is the bio:
Glenn Wayne Beus, 53; Russia Moscow Mission; Othello 3rd Ward, Othello Washington Stake; bishop; former stake president, stake executive secretary, high councilor, Elders Quorum president, and missionary in the Philippines Mission. Teacher and farmer. Born in Ogden, Utah, to Evan Hugh and Alta Lucille Mansfield Beus. Married Kathleen Joanne Kuttler, nine children. A gospel doctrine teacher, she is a former ward Relief Society and Primary president, counselor in a ward Relief Society and Primary presidency and Primary teacher. Born in Bethesda, Md., to Kenneth Latimer and Joanne Stratford Hyde Kuttler.
2. Mailing addresses:
MTC
Elder/Sister __________
Mailbox # ______; Russia Moscow ___/___ (month and day of departure)
Missionary Training Center
2005 North 900 East
Provo, Utah 84604-1793
Telephone: (801) 422-2602
You can call the MTC the Friday before you go enter to find out what your mailbox number and estimated departure date are.
Pouch Mail (the Russia Moscow Mission has pouch mail)
Elder/Sister
Russia Moscow Mission
Post Office Box 30150
Salt Lake City, Utah 84130-1050
The “pouch” is only for letters–no photographs, currency, personal checks, stamps, or merchandise of any kind. Envelopes containing items other than letters will be returned to sender. (Be sure to include your return address on the envelope.)
The “regular” mailing address (which I assume is a post office box)
Elder/Sister ____________
Russia Moscow Mission
Moskva #101000
Galvpochtampt a/ai 257
Moscow
Russia
The Russia Moscow Mission office street address (which I imagine you would only use if you were sending something via courier, e.g., FedEx)
Elder/Sister _________
Russia Moscow Mission
Vrubelya Street #1
Metro Sokol
125080 Moscow
Russia
3. Telephone number for the Russia Moscow Mission office (from the U.S.)
011-7-095-363-2574
(If you call, and you can’t get the call to go through, try eliminating the “0" in “095".)
4. Europe East Area presidency, of which the Russia Moscow Mission is a part, as of August 15, 2005:
Dennis B. Neuenschwander, President
Wayne S. Peterson, First Counselor
Paul B. Pieper, Second Counselor
I have photos and bios of these three men.
5. A map of the Europe East Area (found in the Church Almanac 2005)
6. A brief article on the history of the Church in Russia found in the Church Almanac 2005).
7. A map of the mission. (If the map you received in your mission packet shows Belarus in the mission, you received an outdated map. Belarus has not been in the mission for some time.)
8. A chart comparing weather between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Moscow, Russia. Highest recorded: SLC - 105 degrees F.; Moscow - 89 degrees F. Lowest recorded: SLC - -20 degrees F.; Moscow - -25 degrees F. Rainfall: SLC - 16 inches annually; Moscow - 25 inches annually.
Other information:
There are approximately 60 missionaries (about a dozen of which Russians, Moldavans, Bulgarians, or Ukrainians), of which about a dozen are sister missionaries.
Approximately half of the missionaries in the mission are assigned to Moscow.
Cities in the mission with missionaries other than Moscow are: Zelenograd, Tver, Yaroslavl, and Nizhniy Novgorod–all relatively close to Moscow.
When the missionaries arrive, they are usually met by the mission president and the assistant to the president. They are taken to the mission home, where they are fed and where they spend the night. The next day they are taken to the Mission Office (via Red Square) for orientation.
There are no stakes in Russia at the present time, only districts and branches.
Missionaries get some references from members; teach on street corners; contact on buses, trolleys, trains, and subway, and in parks.
The mission averages between two and 15 baptisms a month.
Preparation Day is Wednesday.
For their four weekly service hours, the missionaries usually work in soup kitchens, orphanages, dacha work, puppet shows, whatever they can find.
Currently, the closest temple to members is the Swedish Temple.
Missionaries usually live in an apartment by themselves.
As far as eating goes, missionaries fix their own breakfasts; eat lunch at home, buy something to eat when they’re out and about, occasionally eat meal with members. Foods that missionaries commonly eat that are unusual for Americans are: sharma, borsh, and gretchka.
As their primary means of transportation, missionaries, walk or take buses, trolleys, trains, or subway. No bikes! No cars!
To write home, missionaries can use pouch mail. (They do not need to affix U.S. stamps.)
Missionaries can e-mail–one hour once week at Internet cafes.
It’s okay to send packages–they usually get through–expensive to send though.
Missionaries are allowed to listen to cassette tape or CD recordings of the Tabernacle Choir or inspiring classical music.
President and Sister Beus have two of their sons with them–ages 15 and 16.
Regarding gear needed to cope with the Russian winters for a sister missionary, Sister Beus wrote:
“heavy coats; long johns; hats; mufflers; warm gloves; dress boots–you need to be able to walk–low heels, practicality a must. All of these are extremely important. It’s very cold and dark for a long time in winter.”
The daily schedule is: 6:30am - up; 10:30am - out; 9pm or 9:30pm - 9pm if you don’t have an appointment, 9:30pm if you do.
Moscow is 900 miles north and 8,000 miles east and 10 hours ahead of Salt Lake City
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I'm not in charge of it I'm just posting it in behalf of Sister Sorensen. Any questions should be directed to her (marigold_9@hotmail.com). Have a great time.
okay everybody. sorry to keep you all in suspense for so long. thanks so much to everyone that got back to me. Here's the tentative plans. We're gonna have the reunion on Friday, April 1st, at 7:00PM in the Pioneer Chapel in provo, 900 W. 100 N. (take the center street exit, turn left at the light on 900 w. It's on the left). i don't know how long it will go- as long as people stay. i wish i had some fundage for this event, but i don't. so if anyone has any ideas about food, let me know. anyway- other things. For people that are interested, we were gonna do a session at the provo temple on Friday afternoon. We're meeting in the chapel at 4, to go through the 4:20 session. Also, Conference is on Saturday. if there's anyone that actually lives in the provo/orem utah area that would maybe want to have people over to watch conference, that would be cool. The reason being, i've had several people ask if between the morning and afternoon sessions if we can have a game of gatorball. sounds like a good plan to me. SO- temple sesision friday afternoon, reunion friday night, conference and gatorball on saturday. i'm gonna get the reunion posted on the deseret news website. if anyone knows how to post it on the mission website, that would be cool (i forgot my password). And one final plea-- this isn't gonna work unless everyone knows about it. SO- i need you to call people or forward this to everyone that you know from the mission so that everyone knows and we can have a great turnout. Sorry this is so long! let me know if you have any questions!
kerri sorensen
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Does anyone know anything about a mission reunion for Pres. Young now that he's home? Me and my family are coming up from AZ for General Conference and we'd like to see everyone again. So if anyone knows anything please post it.
Ammon Lovell
P.S. Does anyone know who the new president is over there?
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Dear fellow former missionaries of the Russia Moscow Mission who served under President and Sister Kelly:
This is a reminder to please RSVP to Sister Kelly ASAP if you plant to attend Pie Night!
The time has come for Pie Night at the Kellys' once again!
When: Friday, November 12, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm.
Where: 673 S. 350 West in Orem.
Directions from I-15: Take Orem Center St. exit. Go east to 400 West. Turn right on 400 West. Travel south to 600 South. Turn Left on 600 South. Just ? block east turn right onto 350 West. Their house is on the left hand side at the end of the street. Some parking on Street, also in church parking lot on 600 South.
If you plan on attending, please RSVP to Sister Kelly at kellys@burgoyne.com or 801-765-9073 by Tuesday, November 9, so that she can plan to make the appropriate number of pies. Also, if you would like to bring a pie, you may let Sister Kelly know that as well.
Please forward this email to anyone who might not have received it but would like to attend or just invite them. Let's get the word out so that everyone who would like to can attend.
Finally, if you know of any email changes or if your contact information has changed recently, please let me know.
Yours,
Michael Morris
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What would happen if a troupe of dancers decided to perform an early twentieth-century Russian play, The Puppet Show, during the intermissions in their performance of the ballet Petrushka, interpreting the stage directions through improvised movement to the music of Schumann?
The Ballet Russe de Salt Lake
under the direction of
and starring
Michael L. K. Morris
presents
The Puppet Show
by Aleksandr Blok
with music by Igor Stravinsky
and Robert Schumann
www.thepuppetshow.net
7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., Thursday and Friday, December 16 and 17 in the
Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
138 West Broadway (300 South), Salt Lake City
Adults: $15, Students/Children: $10
Tickets are available at the Rose Wagner Center Ticket Office
and at ArtTix outlets; or call 355-ARTS or go to www.ArtTix.org
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Dear fellow former missionaries of the Russia Moscow Mission who served under President and Sister Kelly (1998-2001):
The time has come for Pie Night at the Kellys' once again!
When: Friday, November 12, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm.
Where: 673 S. 350 West in Orem.
Directions from I-15: Take Orem Center St. exit. Go east to 400 West. Turn right on 400 West. Travel south to 600 South. Turn Left on 600 South. Just ? block east turn right onto 350 West. Their house is on the left hand side at the end of the street. Some parking on Street, also in church parking lot on 600 South.
If you plan on attending, please RSVP to Sister Kelly at kellys@burgoyne.com or 802-765-9073 by Tuesday, November 9, so that she can plan to make the appropriate number of pies. Also, if you would like to bring a pie, you may let Sister Kelly know that as well.
Please forward this email to anyone who might not have received it but would like to attend or just invite them. Let's get the word out so that everyone who would like to can attend.
Finally, if you know of any email changes or if your contact information has changed recently, please let me know.
Yours,
Michael Morris
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What would happen if a troupe of dancers decided to perform an early twentieth-century Russian play, The Puppet Show, during the intermissions in their performance of the ballet Petrushka, interpreting the stage directions through improvised movement to the music of Schumann?
The Ballet Russe de Salt Lake
under the direction of
and starring
Michael L. K. Morris
presents
The Puppet Show
by Aleksandr Blok
with music by Igor Stravinsky
and Robert Schumann
www.thepuppetshow.net
7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., Thursday and Friday, December 16 and 17 in the
Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
138 West Broadway (300 South), Salt Lake City
Adults: $15, Students/Children: $10
Tickets are available at the Rose Wagner Center Ticket Office
and at ArtTix outlets; or call 355-ARTS or go to www.ArtTix.org
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Voice-to-Voice is a new project started by members of the church in Detroit Michigan and Pavlograd Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk)
Voice to Voice aims to offer those in the U.S., one-on-one conversation with native Russian speakers while at the same time providing stable employment for everyday Russians.
Currently, we are seeking volunteers to help us with testing of our system and training of our "sobesedniki". This event will take place on August 14th from 15-00 to 20-00 Kiev time (6am to 11am Utah time -- 8am to 1pm Eastern Time)
As a volunteer you will be talking to several of our new "sobesedniki" in Russian via voice chat software in order to help them become familiar with the software and basic conversation methodologies. This event will be a lot of fun and a great way to practice your Russian and become acquainted first-hand with this effort to help Russian speakers in the poorest areas of the former USSR to become self-reliant.
For more information contact David Shurtleff:
DSHURTLE@FORD.COM
SHURTLEFF_FAMILY@JUNO.COM
(734) 513-3497
or Oleg Baklan
OBAKLAN@UKR.NET
Sincerely,
David Shurtleff
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Hi, I'm the webmaster for the Baltic Mission. I received an inquiry from a
bishop in Berlin about the location of branch meetings in Minsk, Belarus.
Meeting times and/or local contact information would also be helpful. If I
understand correctly, Belarus is now part of the Russia Moscow Mission. I'm
hoping that one of you might have access to this information. Can you help
me out with this?
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We would like to invite our former missionaries (Moscow 1996-1998) to an open house at our home on Friday April 2 from 6:30-9 p.m. Our address is: 1256 Locust Lane, Provo (just east of BYU). Please come. We would like to see you and find out what you are doing. Refreshments served.
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For all of those interested, EESU will be putting on a russian banquet on Thursday, April 8th in Logan. Russian food (borsch, perogi etc.) will be served, and we will also have several eastern european musical performances. The end of the banquet will also include an auction. Anyone interested contact myself at djfarris@cc.usu.edu
Thanks, Dustin Farris
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Do any of you know of some Russian non profs that are hiring? If so, please email me at srt9@mstar2.net.
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