Happy
Monday! Happy Spring! Happy rainstorms every night! Happy soaking wet
sister missionaries because we forget umbrellas everyday! Happy
missionary life!
I
love you all! I love missionary work and today I am just especially
grateful for my opportunity to serve in this mission and to be on a
mission! The church is so true!
Russian Headdresses that we found in the church :)
This
week was great! It was so good! It was a little crazy but good. Life is
good! I am happy! And we are seeing a lot of miracles and happy things
here in Brovary! I don't even know where to start!
First
off, we just went outside to buy a snack and oh my, it is so pretty!
the sun is shining and there are so many white fluffies floating around
(I don't actually know what they are) that it looks like it is snowing! I
love Ukraine!
ukraine beauty :)
This
week we got transfer and learned that Sister Larcabal and I will be
together this transfer! We are really excited and we know that it will
be great! :) So a part of this week was packing and unpacking but that
was a pretty small part!
This
week, we headed up north for an exchange! we were in the cute
Chernigov! It was an amazing exchange! Us four sisters together had 6
lessons, found a new investigator and met with a girl that then agreed
to be baptized! It was a really fun day! I served with Sister Powell and
we had a blast! We even went to this cute Vereniki (dumpling)
restaurant and it was really fun! :)
exchange pics :)
This
week, we met with a lot of members to get better acquainted. We had a
fun lesson with a family with a few little kids. We taught about how
doing the little things strengthens our testimony. We had balloons and
we blew them up while we talked about all the little things that we
could do. Then we talked about how if you tied the balloon off and
didn't add anymore air, it would shrink and not be as big so we need to
always be adding more air. :) It was cute and the kids loved it! :)
We also met
with our new branch president and his family! They are the best. Our new
branch president is about to get married so we talked about that a
little bit. Eventually we got on the topic of their conversion story. It
was so cool! Then they feed us Borsch. It was a great meeting! I love
members here! They are always so nice and good :)
Sister Powell on Exchanges :)
rainbow in the park
Funny
story, Sunday morning, we were studying and we got a call. It was
President Anton, our branch president. He then asked me to speak in
church (Which started in two hours), with the theme of MODESTY. ????
Before he told me that topic, I didn't even know how to say that in
Russian!! So originally it was a five minute talk but two minutes before
the meeting started, they asked me to speak for 10 minutes. Oh my oh!
It actually went really well. Everyone said that it was really good.
Haha :)
Last Monday
night, our lesson fell through so we went to look for someone. We had
their address but nothing else. So we went and when we got there, they
were not home. We had brought some Banana bread to give to our friend,
but she wasn't home. As we walked out, we saw these two grandmas. We
decided to give our treat to them. As we approached, one said, "Sister
Ford, I love the book you gave me". Turns out that I had given the
babushka (grandma) a book of Mormon before and she loves it! So we got
to talking and before we knew it, we had 4 new babushki friends. They
even invited us to live in their house with them. It was so fun! :) I
love the babushki here :)
don't think we are too weird, but some district pictures...
Yesterday and
Today, We have been able to witness an amazing miracle. Yesterday,
Brother Roman (Family, you met him, he was the first one you saw), came
up and told us that he met this lady and that we could meet with her and
him tomorrow. so we agreed for that and today we came and he came and
she came and we met Natasha. She is the super cute hip babushka that
loves ping-pong, is a professional at the accordion and knows 4
different languages. We taught her about the restoration of our church
and a little more about what we believe. It was really awesome. There
was a strong Spirit there. At the end of the meeting, she asked to meet
again and have more lessons. So we set one up for Thursday. But then, as
we played some ping-pong (she plays so well), she asked if we could
meet tomorrow too! So we are really excited to meet with her and help
her learn more about the church. She told us about how she felt really
strongly that she needed to come into our building and that she loves
what we are teaching already! she is super fun :)
Because
all of the Donetsk missionaries left, I got to choose if I wanted to
come home in September or October. And I chose October, so see you
October 15th :) Also, I'm not sure when you will get an email from me
next week, because next Monday at 11:45 is when I fly to Latvia to renew
my visa! It will be interesting! :) I've had to do a lot of paperwork
for that this week, but it has been good :) Hopefully everything will go
as planned! :)
Natasha, our new babushka friend
This coming Sunday, is a big day for Ukraine!
election day! On Tuesday, as we were walking home, we walked right into a
political rally. One of the candidates was speaking in our park. So
that was interesting! There was so many people there! Everyone right now
has so much Ukrainian Pride. Pray for them this Sunday, that everything
will resolve in a peaceful way!
I love you all! Have a great week! :)
Love,
Sister Kati Ford
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