Barrett's email - October 30th

Just some random pictures

Here's me infront of some crazy graffiti. There's a lot of graffiti here, and a lot of it is really cool

Here I am outside the door of a basement inside of which we had a lesson with a very nice man named Oleg. It's worth google translating
Note: Greg used on OCR to recognize it then translate it

HE ВЛЕЗАЙ УБЬЕТ! = HE GET IN IT WILL KILL!

So this past week, Elder R decided he wanted to learn how to make borsch

And here's the final product. It was really good. Turns out he's a master soup maker

Here is Elder P wearing the hat he just bought. This was the type of hat little boys wore back in soviet times, according to the man who sold it to him

And here's a guy playing the saw on the side of the road

Wow! The cruise sounds like it was amazing! Holy cow. Thanks for the pictures.
Happy Holloween, by the way. Tonight I'm dressing up like a missionary and going to knock on all the doors in the neighborhood. Well, actually, they don't have neighborhoods, and knocking on doors is borderline illegal, so we don't do it too often. But I am going to dress up like a missionary.
Big news: I got one of the packages! I think it's the second one. It had razors and candy. So I still don't know where the other one is. But this one is great! You know me so well :) Thank you.
Ok, so for Christmas, I don't know if I'll be able to get that many shapki this time. I already have a bunch of stuff to send (probably too much). But don't worry, I will definitely get everyone a shapka by the end of my mission. I'm getting better at bargaining. So the sizes are a little different here, but I don't really know how. all I know is that I am about a size 56. And another important thing to consider is what type of shapka you want. There is a fairly wide variety of animals you can make a shapka out of (wolf, fox, rabbit, otter, goat, etc). Maybe the next time I go to that rynok, I will take pictures of me trying on a number of the different styles.
What do I want for christmas? Well, I have probably bought enough stuff to fullfill both Christmas and Birthday requirements for both years already. There is a lot of cool stuff here. But if I were to ask for something that I can't get here, it would be pictures. Pictures of anything, everything, everyone.
Well, I love you very much. Have a great week. Tell everyone Hi from me. I love them all too, even though I can't write them all
Love you
Love
Elder Hamp