Monday, January 8, 2018

С Новым Годом! Happy New Years!

01/01/2018

Well Happy New Years everyone! 
New Years is the biggest of all of the holidays here in Ukraine but I still am American and still think is kind of "Eh". But if for me this was the day that Santa Claus comes like for all of the little kids here then perhaps I would be a little more excited about it. So it is 2018 now I guess. Elder Roylance and I celebrated last night by playing some games of Rummy and drinking some Kool-aid that my family sent me for Christmas. After drinking 3 sips of it though I realized how little if American food I can take despite how much we miss it. 
We will see if we can get any P-Day stuff done at all today with nothing in the whole country working 
We had a good week where we went caroling and English Practices and helping with a Primary party/play and the other usual stuff. 
Sunday was fun. Last Sunday was Christmas Eve and the Stake Presidency decided that would be the day that they would have only one hour of church despite the next week being the bigger holiday. So yesterday in order to have the members not get home at around five as usually happens we had another combined International Branch and Borschagovsky ward. Not just during Sacrament meeting but all of church. 
Another thing. On Thursday we got into the office and Elder Andrus told us that there was a pretty big flood in the ward building. We checked it out and found a pretty serious problem. In the front foyer there was a few big holes in the ceiling and water trickling down onto the floor where lay a whole bunch of what looked like pieces of wet cardboard but were upon further investigation pieces of drop ceiling. We called the FM groups guy on the temple site and before we knew it they had everything cleaned up and looked like nothing ever happened. 
 There was a Chinese guy who brought a guy to church who lives in Kiev right now but is from New York and is Venezuelan. His name is Juan. He is a cool guy and wants to come more often to church and to other activities. We are glad that South America sent some of their success over to us. 
I am really glad to be here and to be in the middle of this great and marvelous work that the Lord God is performing. 

Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson


This back when it was winter.




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