What a fun, crazy, tiring, exciting week it has been! I had so much FUN this last week, but it was crazy!
I don't even know where to begin right now! Maybe I will talk
about the weather first! IT GOT COLD! and rainy! I was actually cold! I
thought maybe it would snow...but then I converted the temperature from
Cel. to Far. and then I realized that I was just a whimp. I'm not even
going to say the temperature... It was that bad! haha :) But today is
warmer. Thankfully.
So our branch has a recent convert. His name is Isaac. He is African and doesn't speak very much Russian, or English. But we
communicate in English, because he knows enough. He is AWESOME! He spoke
yesterday in church about "The Power of God" (And yes, he has an
awesome African accent). He speaks in English but then the branch
president translates it into Russian. Anyways...This week I helped him
find scriptures for his talk. It was fun.
I also did an exchange this week. Back with Sister Leavitt! It
was fun! Weird to be back in my old apartment with none of my stuff...I
realized how much I love my new house too! It's still nice! :)
me in the pool! WHICH IS EMPTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:) Just to make that clear :)
Wednesday when we were walking to the church, we said "Good Evening" to a
man walking by. He turned around and said, "Americans!' Which for us,
is actually a pretty normal greeting. He told us how he had met with
missionaries before and had a Book of Mormon and believed that it was
God's book. Then he gave us his number and said we could meet! The best
part of this story! He wants us to meet with him AND HIS FAMILY! That's
so exciting! He has a wife and they have ben married for 35 YEARS! He
has 5 Children and 5 Grandchildren! Families like this just don't exist
in Ukraine so this is HUGE! I really hope that this works out! Pray for
him (Vlarry)! And pray that we get the opportunity to meet with him! and
his family!
Thursday we had a lesson with Natasha and she called before and
asked if she could bring a friend. Of course we said yes, so we met
Giorgi, her friend from Georgia! He knows some Russian and some English
so we can communicate. He is interested in the Book of Mormon so we gave
him a Russian one, they don't have one available in Georgian yet. But he
was really nice. With Natasha we helped her translate a letter to
Stephanie Nielsen. We are going to send that this week. Hopefully it
makes it safely!
Then on Friday morning, we got on a train! How fun!
on the train
at the Kyiv train station (which is so pretty)
We had a
11 hour ride up to Kyiv, so it took all day! Finally we got to Kyiv and
it was rainy. So we found our way to the Metro and figured out how to
get to the Sister's apartment in Center Kyiv. That night 10 sisters
stayed there! It was a little crazy! But good! I slept on the floor but I
slept fine!
Then the next morning we had our mission conference. It was really good!
Elder Evens from the Missionary Department and the 70 came and
President Bennett from the Area Presidency was there. They talked a lot
about doing missionary work with the members. It was interesting. I was
glad to have been there, even if it was only for 3 hours!
Then we went to Dominoes (it tastes just as good here in Ukraine!)
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