Sunday in the village

Slow day today- the guys got in from the barn and after eggs for breakfast Garry, Seth and Jonah and I walked down the street to the renovated Mennonite church in the village. There is a small congregation that meets there. Most Sundays the pastor leads a Bible study-like service around a table, with acapella hymn singing. Of course everything is in Russian. We have attended a few times when there was a special service (with an English speaker) or we can't get into the city to attend at Morningstar, like today. The car is still being painted and is not back together so we can't drive it yet.
Today most of the verses were from 2 Corinthians, with some from Isaiah and Matthew- we try to figure out where they are by listening or peeking - Rosa likes to point out which song we are going to sing next. There is often one hymn that sounds fsmiliar- today we sang Showers of Blessing in Russian. Besides us there were eleven adults and one girl who looked about ten there today. They are always happy to see us, and try to talk to us, we get many hugs and handshakes to welcome us.
After church someone talked to Garry about a heifer they were interested in selling. The boys headed home right away to check on their puppies. It was such beautiful weather (there had been frost to start the day) that Garry and I went for a walk to find the Mennonite sytle fence Victor had shown him in the village - it was past the school - turns out like the school fence it is made of bricks. We are thinking about replacing the wire (kind of chain-link style) fence directly in front of the house. The since we had walked so far, Garry took me to see the other old Mennonite gravesite in the village.
We bought some bread and ice cream on the way home. We saw the strangest thing - a raven (or crow?) flew over landed on a walnut tree by the road, plucked a walnut off and flew away. Last year Garry had to work fast at picking up the nuts in the yard because these birds would peck them open and eat the nuts out. As you can see I did not have my camera with me today, so you'll have to use your imagination.