We guess that our Spring is just like home - wet! The plants are loving it. The Datchas are loving it and of course the people think it is great for their Datchas. We had our last S & I 'graduation' (we cannot legally call it graduation because of Russian law....it should be referred to as S & I accomplishment or something like that!) when we flew to Usserisk, Russia. The students were happy that we could go to their program...then we became the program!! It is always fun to see the many young people who are many of the stalwarts of the branches. They do not have Seminary or Institute at their schools, so it is taught in a home or the church just like in many other missionary areas in the world. We get to visit them and talk to and train the teachers. This is our primary assignment of our mission - working with CES, the students and the teachers. Our six branches require airplane flying to them or riding the train to visit them. They have good people in them.
