Dear family and friends, I'm going to cheat a little this week. I've been so busy writing reports that I thought maybe I'd send it to you and you can see what we're doing with the humanitarian projects. It's very different work than missionary work, but very interesting and we meet wonderful people. All the situations tear at your heart because there are so many things that need to be done and we can only do a few. But every little bit helps and we can make life a little easier for some. As we were walking home from Church today we both said how beautiful it was outside. It felt like we were having a heat wave - it was in the high 20's, the sun was shining, the snow is melting and our faces weren't freezing off. Spring is on it's way. Well, check out the attachment to see about our projects. We love you all, have a great week. Love, The Frosts MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT – FEBRUARY 2011 ELDER AND SISTER FROST – VORONEZH HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES – This month we visited and started three new Area Initiative Projects. The first Project is a rural Health Clinic in the Lower Veduga area of Voronezh. This clinic is one of 10 outlying clinics from the Semiluky Central District Hospital. We are providing a new dental chair and equipment for them. We have worked with this Hospital in the past and provided the same equipment for one of their other clinics which proved to be very successful. The new equipment has improved the dental care of the patients, which created more confidence and trust in the patients, which increased the number of people going to the dentist, which ultimately required hiring another dentist and a few staff members. The results were very favorable so the main hospital asked if we would do the same for this clinic. The second project is at the Novaya Usman Boarding School for Disabled Children. This is a very old school with a new Director and Assistant Director and they have made remarkable improvements to the school in the last year. They have been very creative in finding people to donate materials and funds to upgrade and refurbish their school. We went on a tour and were very impressed with all the work that has been done recently. The kitchen had not had many improvements yet, so we are providing sinks, work tables with storage space underneath, a bread pantry, and various other kitchen supplies to replace the very old ones that they have now. The third project is at another boarding school for 62 disabled children. This school is in a very rural area and is in need of a lot of work. The children have developmental and behavioral problems and much of the school has been damaged by the children. We are working on finding the best way we can help them. They asked us to provide tile for their shower room and linoleum for their floors. Since we don’t do reconstruction work with our projects, we are still working out the details of providing the tiles for the shower room with the school doing their own labor of installing the tiles. We decided against providing the flooring at this time. The shower room is in desperate need of repair. These are our first three projects and we are certainly learning much about the “ how to’s” of doing projects but more about the great need there is for help here. The saddest thing this month was saying goodbye to the Holmes. I know we all felt it a privilege to have worked with them and wish them the best with their return home to their family and building their new home. We are excited to be working with the Pattersons and Dima and are working on finding a manufacturer for our wheelchair projects. ECCLESIASTICAL – This month was filled with comings and goings. We traveled with our missionaries on the overnight train to Moscow for a very enjoyable Zone Conference with President and Sister Woolley and our first experience on Red Square. What an incredible sight that was on a beautiful snowy night. We had transfers and three of our missionaries left, one for home the other two for different areas and then got three new missionaries ( all greenies) who we quickly grew to love. We have been on many teaching appointments with our missionaries and love being involved with helping to work with the investigators. We had two convert baptisms, Natalya and Dimitri, which is always a wonderful miracle. We love our Branch and our association with the members and continue to be amazed at the strength of leadership here in Voronezh. We feel so blessed to be here involved in this work.