Dear Family and Friends!
Happy
Thanksgiving this week!!! There is so much to be grateful for this
year! I just feel so blessed! We have an American in our branch (She
married a man in our branch) and she spoke yesterday in Sacrament
Meeting (In English). But she spoke about gratitude and I really enjoyed
it. She talked about how when we look for the hand of God in all
things, we are able to see things with an Eternal Perspective. It was
really what I needed to hear. Sometimes, on a mission, it is so easy to
get stuck in the day-to-day actions, and we end up wondering if we will
ever finish. It is so important to be grateful because then and only
then can we the bigger picture, and have the faith and hope to endure
and to continue on. I know last week I talked about what I was grateful
for, but I think this week I will just continue that list on :)
I am grateful for them and their positive
attitudes!
It has been a party living together :)
Thanksgiving Dinner!
Me with Larissa at Thanksgiving!
The elders make a turkey, and then we
had Ukrainian food. Pickled Vegtables, Pancakes, Vereniki (Kindof like
dumplings...I think) and Tea and Juice. Very different from America, but
really good! :) I am grateful that I like the food here! I love Borsch
and I really have yet to find a food that I don't like! Last week for
FHE we went to a members house and made Vereniki.
Making Vereniki!
The raw vereniki
More vereniki! :) YUM! :)
It is like pasta dough
that is rolled out, then filled and folded over and cooked in water. We
make it cherry filled and it was SO GOOD! The ones that we had for our
Thanksgiving dinner were filled with cabbage, also really good!
- I am grateful for our investigators and the opportunties
that we have to teach people. This last week we FINALLY met with Sophia.
We had a really good lesson about Jesus Christ. She is a cutie! She
fell and broke her arm so she wasn't at church yesterday, sadly. Olga
returned from Kyiv and we are meeting this Tuesday! I am so excited! :)
We also found a new investigator from English! She wants to know more
about why we are here and about our church! We are so excited to meet
with her :)
I love the 2 old grandmas
that we meet with every week. I love singing with them and sharing my
testimony with them! They have special spirits!
- I am grateful for miracles! This week, we stopped by a Less
Active member. We got up to her floor, knocked on the door, and she
opened the door and said, "I am so glad that you are here, come in" We
got to go in and talk. It was so good! It was especially cool because we
went back later that week for a lesson and there was a guard there that
wouldn't let us up. Fortunately the less active's mom showed up and
knew that we were supposed to go and let us up! It was really nice :)
Hunger Games! In russian! WEIRD! (actually
Ukrainian...just kidding about the russian :) )
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