Alpha Dinner

Well, it's Thursday morning, a day which for us begins a whirlwind week ahead...But more of that later.

Last night Yura and Luda found our apartment. It was really nice having them as guests. We showed pictures of our kids and places we've lived. They are both from the Ural Mountains of Russia so we did a lot of comparisons.
We had lasagna (is that how you spell that?) and salad that was deadly delicious, and for which Kim is famous all around the Rundstrom house. It was a good way to get to know them better.

The theme of the evening was Christianity. They didn't know what to expect and seemed a little nervous. I told them we wanted to show them a video with some information about the Bible, etc. The video was the first lesson from the Alpha program, "Who is Jesus?"
They listened attentively to most of it and got some of the main important points concerning the history of the writing of the New Testament, the teachings of Jesus and other things.

Luda seemed to be saying, "Yeah, we know all this already from the book you gave us." But Yura was more interested. While we didn't make plans to do this again next week this will give me some very good opportunities during tennis and sauna to ask questions, and I hope will give him some things to chew on.

Tonight our neighbor Galina (who along with her huband Enver, were the first of our neighbors to befriend us) wants to come for a visit. She wants to talk specifically about life after death. This has come about because Enver- a life-long communist -has a lot of physical issues and is, not surprisingly, afraid of dying.
Because I know he's afraid I've been saying to him, "Let's talk about life after death".
"There's no such thing! You can't prove that!", he says to me.

Doesn't seem to bother him that he can't prove that there is NO life after death, though.

Anyway, though he's been growly with me he has talked to Galina about it and now she wants to hear more.

We'll keep you posted.