Sweet Lotoshino Branch

These are pictures we took at church last Sunday when we were visiting the Lotoshino Branch.  We rent this building that is a driving school/mechanics school.  A companionship of Elders that are serving in a nearby city, Tver, make the trip on the bus to Lotoshino every other Sunday.  The branch is primarily made up of two families.  The Garboos family is the strength of the branch.  Brother Garboos is the Branch President.  That is him standing in front of the car sign.  I'm sitting next to Sis. Garboos.  The other lady is the Garboos' daughter in law (her husband and the Garboos' only child is in the USA right now).  The youngest girl is the Garboos' one and only grandchild.  The older man in the back is raising his son Victor (next to him) and daughter Masha (in front row) by himself.  The missionaries are Elder Sorensen (AP), Elder Salinas (lives in TX 20 min. from Mexico border where he goes to visit family nearly every weekend when he was home.  Word is he makes great mexican food), and Elder Geels (UT).  Remember when I wrote you about the Lord's tender mercies in meeting up with a family and leading them to the building that we met in when Elder Bednar was here?  That was the Garboos family.  They are from the Ukraine and joined the church there.  I always wonder if Tracy Payne might know them.  I love to  visit this branch.  They are so loving and warm.  They always invite us to go over to their humble little apt. after meetings and have borcht.  We did that once, but we are usually always in a hurry to get back to Moscow for interviews, etc.  I wish you could meet these wonderful people.  They immediately work their way to the center of your heart.