Dinner Guests' Conversion Story

Can you believe I forgot to take pictures at our home!! But we invited Dasha and her family to dinner Sunday after her confirmation. Let me share their store. Makyeyev's (Dasha's brother-in-law) father was very interested in American right after communism fell, but it was still illegal to have correspondences with people in the United States. The KGB would watch people very closely. So his father would find Americans to send his letters. He met a couple of LDS missionaries in the grocery store and started visiting with them, hoping to get them to send his letters. Instead they converted him to the gospel. He was obsessed with the United States and moved there the first chance he had, but his wife did not share the same obsession and choose to stay in Belarus. They were divorced. He is now living in Salt Lake City and she is serving a mission in Moscow. They had two sons that also joined the church. Makyeyev is the youngest, meet his future wife Anna at the university, converted her to the gospel, they were married and now have three children. They taught and converted her sisters. But none of the girls were allowed by their parents to join the church until they were 18 years old. The 2nd sister, Tatiana, is going on a mission February 14th to St. Petersburg. We went home teaching to his mother Galina before she left on her mission. It just goes to show, because of a little curiosity the church spreads like small branches on a tree and the influence one family can have on the growth of the church.