What a week. What a week.
This was one of the craziest weeks I have had so far on my
mission. We'll start from the beginning.
Wednesday morning we wake up and head down to center Odessa
to the Автовокзал (bus station) with all of my bags to meet my new companion
and head to my new area. It was kind of surreal leaving my area this time. We
get down to the bus station and meet the other missionaries. I leave Elder
Merrell and head with Elder Edwards to the buses. We hop on and start riding.
And then we did that for five hours. That wasn't the most comfortable ride I
have had but it wasn't bad. Elder Edwards and I were getting to know each other
and he was telling me about the area and then this guy sits down next to us and
starts talking with us. We love it when people want to talk with us because
they usually don't. But this time got a little bit difficult. Once we started
driving it got really loud and he kept talking at the same quiet level he was
before. He talked to us the entire time barely audible to us and we got tired
of it really fast.
Once we get to our apartment Elder Edwards realizes that he
doesn't have any type of keys with him at all. He makes some calls and realizes
that he left them in Odessa. So we find a tarp and put my bags under it and
head to our branch building. There We do some little odd jobs and wait for our
landlord to call us back. Eventually we are able to get a hold of our landlord
and have him come and open our apartment. Our apartment is kind of cool. It is
not like a normal one that you would find in an apartment building but is more
like a little house. Like the little houses we have here in Ukraine.
I am here replacing a missionary who ended his mission here
and from the state of the apartment that was very apparent. But good thing I am
a clean fellow.
Elder Edwards is he Branch President of our tiny little
branch and I am his second counselor. We had a great Sunday and I got to speak
and meet all of our members here.
I'm not going to describe all of our little antics, but
let's just say that they occurred often and it just adds to the flavor of the
area here.
Kherson is a crazy little city that has crazy things happen
all of the time.
So far we got to meet with a couple of members and have an
English practice. We probably would have been able to do more if it weren't for
the fact that we had to go back down to Odessa. It wasn't for the keys, they
were mailed up to us. But we had a Zone Conference yesterday in Odessa with the
Packers.
Sunday evening we hop on a bus again and head back to
Odessa. We stay with the Suvorovsky Elders over night. It was kind of funny
that I was back there within a week of getting transferred out. Monday morning we
take a super hot marshrutka ride to center and have an amazing Zone Conference
with the whole Packer family. That was the last time that I will see them here.
Next time something like this happens, it will be with the new mission
president. I am definitely going to miss them. After that we trey to catch a bus
going back to Kherson but are only able to get one going latter than we wanted.
It was already full and our only other option was to take another one even
later. But the lady offered to take us anyway. So for the bus ride back we were
riding on a full bus sitting on wooden stools in the middle of the isle. That
was not very fun. Probably the most uncomfortable ride I have ever had and
probably will have. But all is well and we are back in Kherson.
Other than that we contacted a ton and did normal everyday
missionary stuff and stuff to live like eating and sleeping.
Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson
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