07/24/2017
This week we had fourteen missionaries go home after
serving an honorable mission. They were wonderful missionaries that will be
missed. They will do great things. Our mission isn't the biggest but we had
good number of missionaries here. But now we had all of those leave and
none to replace them. The mission is a much smaller place now. They will
live on as legends.
This week we found out our transfers. Elder Edwards is
headed up to Kharkivsky to be the next Assistant to the President. And I am
headed to Cherkassy to serve with Elder Mattina who was actually Elder Edwards'
MTC companion. All I know about Cherkassy is that it is int he dead center of
Ukraine is far away from everything. It is becoming more of a habit now on my
mission of being exiled away from everything.
This week we found out officially that our area was
going to be closing so that meant that we not only had to pack our things, but
clean out the apartment. That was a huge project that took forever but in the
end our landlord was happy and we made him a spicy egg burrito thing.
My bag started ruining my shirts so I had to get some
new shirts as well as a different bag. And my watch stopped working too, so
that had to be taken care of.
On Sunday, President Cherniga came and spoke and
announced to the Branch what was going to be happening. Missionaries will not be
there anymore and the first counselor is going to be acting Branch President
while the Area Presidency makes a decision. We had a non-member lady there who
gave me a Orthodox book of prayers. That was thoughtful of her.
Right now I am in Odessa with two other missionaries
who are waiting for their companions to come down from Kiev. It's kind of
weird. This is none of our area but we are just going around and stuff. Today
is a pretty strange Preparation day. Tomorrow morning I head up to Kiev and
then meet my new companion and then head to Cherkassy. Lots of traveling.
Other than that I don't know what to write on. It
was just a crazy week and tat the same time it seems like we didn't do very
much. I guess I'll say hi from Cherkassy then!
Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson
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