(Post 3 for 1/19/12)  Within a few days of getting here we visited with most of the seniors in the mission.  They do this each Thursday evening.  We have hardly been back.  We are meeting in the Moscow Central building.  This is where the first stake in Russia was formed earlier in the year.  This is the high council room.  The couple in the right corner are the Neuenschwander's.  He has been a general authority for decades and has an extensive history in Eastern Europe.  He is one of the pioneers of the work in this part of the world.  He and his wife are now in Turkey preparing for the first missionaries of this generation to be allowed in a Muslim country. Just behind the photographer is the room in which Elder Nelson interviewed the men who would become the first high priests in Russia--at the Moscow Stake Presidency.

Historic things are happening here.