How
is everyone doing? I'm doing good! Summer is so beautiful here in Kyiv!
It hasn't been too hot, for which I am very grateful! But it is
beautiful! Everyone is having a lot of success in their garden's so
everyone keeps giving us lots and lots of yummy fruit! I love it :)
This week was
really good, but sad! On Saturday, we had a conference with our whole
mission to say goodbye to the Klebingats. It was such a great meeting!
We talked about a lot of different things, including dating, education,
children, the world...basically all of his last advice for us! It was
really sad to realize that they won't be our mission president and
family anymore, but he also helped us get really excited for the
Packers, who fly in on Saturday.
I'm
so grateful for President Klebingat and everything that I have learned
from him and his family. He has an amazing testimony and he is such a
great example of diligence and hard work. I am so excited that he is a
70 because that means that he will be in Utah every conference and every
summer! So yeah, I can't wait for that :) Also I'm super excited to see
Katja at BYU! :)
At
our conference we talked a lot about being strong and standing and
being an example, especially in an ever changing world. It was so good!
It is so important to have the faith to follow the prophet, even if the
world doesn't agree with what he says. Especially when the world doesn't
agree with what he says.
The conference was also really great because all of
the sisters from our MTC group were there!
Yay! We got to talk to and
see all of them and it was awesome! It is crazy to see how much they
have all grown and to see how we are all teaching the gospel and helping
so many people come to Christ! wow!
At
the conference, we took one final mission picture, and we all said
goodbye. There was a lot of tears as we hugged President and Sister
Klebingat and Katja and Daniel and Alex goodbye. We will miss them!
I found a hedgehog!
This week, we also had the opportunity to do a lot
of service for members in our branch! Service is so much fun and it made
me so happy!
We
made Primary posters for the Primary president to help them during
singing time! That is some of my favorite service because I get to be so
creative. We made a singing time zoo and a clothesline and a flip chart
for a song, it was a lot of fun! :) Our Primary president was so
relieved and grateful for the help, she almost started crying! I put a
dinosaur in my zoo... hehe ;)
We
also went and did service for the Clark family this week! yay! we
picked Cherries and berries and it was a lot of fun! I was on exchanges
for that day, so I took Sister Welling with me and it was a lot of fun!
The Clark's paperwork is getting closer and closer to being done, so I
am so excited to see them in America :) yay! :)
Ukraine pride
This week our
branch president got married! We didn't have time to go to the wedding,
but I hear it was cute! But we did help them out a lot! We helped them
stuff walnut cookies and we made four cakes and we helped cut some grass
and decorate and some things. It reminded me a lot of wedding catering
that I did in the past. Sveta (the mom) was so cute and was asking us
about what we want for our weddings and such. It was so cool to see a
new family start and to see them be sealed in the temple! President
Anton's wife, Katja is super cute and nice! At church on Sunday, she
gave us bananas. Nice girl!! :)
We
also helped a grandma in our ward do some indexing.
Wow. Hard work. But
she was determined to do it! I'm not sure how much of a help I was
because I don't read old Russian, but I think I helped a little bit... I
hope so anyways :)
Fun picture from the baptism yesterday!
I
love serving and helping others! It is so true that "when you are in
the service of your fellow beings, you are only in the service of your
God" (Mosiah 2:17) And on top of that, I think it is impossible to be
sad when you are serving someone else :) So if you ever are having a bad
day, just find someone else to serve and I know your day will get
better :)
I love you all! Enjoy the summer! Go swimming and enjoy the outdoors!
Love,
Sister Kati Ford
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