Here we are at Yazik and Natasha's house for some fellowship. We had yummy Russian pizza, then tea and cookies (of course), watched a little Russian Winnie the Pooh (so cute!), wrote our first email home, and played UNO. I didn't play since I was preoccupied with Yaz' little daugther Yulia. I made friends with her without saying a word. (Isn't it amazing that without a word being spoken, you can love someone? I think that saying "actions speak louder than words" is quite true.)
Yulia is three years old and very cute. At first she was very shy, but soon she was chatting up a storm and telling me everything. I had no idea what she was saying; Russian is hard enough to understand, let alone Russian baby talk! Then she was running to her room and getting all her toys to show me. Soon my hands were piled with all kinds of toys while I said, "How beautiful!" or "cool!" or named all the animals that I knew the names for.
When Sveta saw Yulia chatting away and me not understanding any of her questions, she laughed and said (while Sasha translated), "Capa, you should just say 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Yes'!"
So Yulia would chat away while I said, "Da, Da, Da". Sveta is actually Yulia's aunt, since Natasha is Sveta's older sister.
We had such a good time of fellowship together!
Pastor Yaz was so happy to recieve the gift of a mandolin! He did not know how to play it at all, but once I told him what the strings were, he began figuring out chords.He loves music and he must teach his older daughter Aleena to play some, because she picked up the mandolin right away and started picking out a tune.
Yulia
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