Dear Family and Friends, 

Today begins a new transfer! I'm excited to get to work in Suvorosky! I hope all is well for all of you! School is starting now...study hard! BYU has their first game this weekend, or so I hear! I'm cheering for them from Ukraine! :) 
 
 On my exchange with Sister Gillespie and Hunt! 
 
(My last day with Sister Hunt! I miss her so much! I was actually homesick for her this week! But I saw her today so all is good!) 


This week was so good! It was crazy because it was transfer week, but it was still really good! I spent a lot of time with various companions in various appartment because my new companion, Sister Nielsen was up in Kyiv sending Sister Busch home! Like HOME! AMERICA! So that was weird. But it was fun being with other sisters. One sister in our zone is Sister Gillespie. I hadn't really gotten the chance to get to know her super well but we were together for a few days. Turns out that we are RELATED! What?!??!? It's kinda random and long, but there. (Her mom's cousins and Lance and Heather Clyde...) We made the connection while riding on a Tram.  We were so excited but none of the Ukrainian people around us understood. 
 
 Saying goodbye to a less active member, Riasa

This week was also crazy because every morning and every night we travel an hour to get to our area. It's a lot of time on buses. Today my bus hit a car. That was unfortunate. For how crazy they drive, it's a miracle every time we get off one alive! :) 
 
 
 house sandels. They are a thing here. The sisters have them in their new apartment. I need some! haha

Everything has been splendid so far, at least as far as our companionship. We shared a room in the MTC so it is fun to be back together. We used to joke that maybe we would serve together and now we really are! So I'm happy about that.
 
 Walking to my new house. I only saw the outside though and couldn't take a pic! NEXT WEEK though :) 

The branch in Suvorosky was so happy to learn that they will have sisters all the time. I was told by several members that they have work for us to do! So I am so excited to help them and to help people there come unto Christ! We were able to meet with the Relief Society President this week. We told her that this transfer we want to focus on serving as much as we can. She gave us people to serve in the ward and then asked us, as a service to her, to try and think of a new and creative Relief Society Activity idea. We suggested doing a Question and Answer Discussion on how to be a good mother, and she loved it! It was fun being at church and hearing them announce that activity for the middle of September!  If anyone has any good activity ideas, let me know!! 
 
 and when we didn't have keys or a phone and I needed to knock on the door! Don't look down, 
it's like a 20 foot drop! All was good. And now we have our own keys!

Another goal that Sister Nielsen and I have is to do a creative finding activity every week. The one we tried this week was a Free Kompot table. We thought it went pretty good. We discovered that if the elders did the table with us, then no one would come up and talk to us. However, if it was just Sister Nielsen and I, people would come up and talk and we would be surrounded by people who wanted to talk to us. We discovered that people, once they discovered that we were missionaries, were more interested in talking about the church then the free juice and would often leave with a Liahona, Book of Mormon, or Pamphlet, but no juice.
 
 
 
 US going shopping this morning with SIster hunt and Gillespie. 
We headed out to 7k again! Still just as sketch haha :)

Something that I have become aware this week is the reality of the gift of tongues! I am serving with a sister and combined we have been learning Russian for less then 8 months. Yet we can go talk to people and invite them and teach them! We have had great lessons this week, and I know it is the Lord blessing us! He LOVES me and will not let me fail! :) The gift of tongues is real, otherwise I would not be able to be doing this work! 

I don't have very much time today, we went shopping this morning so now I am in a hurry but I love you all! I'm so grateful for all that you do! You are examples to me! Do missionary work! Enjoy school! and work...if you don't go to school. and home too! Enjoy everything! 

Love Sister Ford!