So we tried to stop by a whole bunch of less-active member this week but they all didn't answer except two. One of them said that her family told her that they would either go to the Provoslavny Church together or no church at all. So she pretty firmly desiided that she is not coming back. The other lady said that she would "try to come if it works out" buit we all know what that means. It took some effort to catch her when she was at home. We think that she has been trying to avoid us. We called her last week and she said that she "wasn't feeling well". I aske if we could meet her on Tuesday next week and she just gave a a halfhearted maybe. We showed up and she jsut so happened to visiting her friend in the hospital. We stopped by again the next day and she answered and what looked like her boyfiend was there who and something in his arm and looked not to kindly dispossed towards us. She said that she couldn't meet and that she had to go visit her friend again. We hope that she can find some time to come back to church.
We have some pretty good Enlgish practices this week. We teach the bignners group and the other elders the advanced group.
We had a good fast and testimony meeting yesterday on Sunday. We don't have a pianist in our branch so Elder Clifford and Durtschi throughout the week when ever we are at the church they practice for that upcoming Sunday. They do a pretty good job playing for us. But that doesn't help our members sing any better.
Last week who what thought was a member came up to us after sacrament meeting and who we latter found out is not a member and refieuses to get baptized but comes every single week told us that she was willing to help us imrpove our Russian since she used toi be a Russian teacher. It was pretty good but it was mostly her roasting us on our acecnts, mostly the acents of one of us. I thought that it was good practice but someone else doesn't wnat to go anymore. So Elder Clifford and I will go and get good Russian while the others be content with what they have so far.
We went iceskateing with an investigator which was awesome. He is a really nice guy from Lebonon but lives and works here in Ukraine. I think that going ice skating with him had an influence on him. After wards we got some fancy icecream. They had this little stand in the mall where the ice rink was where they had this little round metal plate that they squirted cream on and other falvoring things and then started to mmix it up. We noticed that the cream stareted to ge slower and slower and realized that the plate was being chilled so that it was freezing the cream right there. Then the guy starteded spreading it all out in a square sheet and let it sit then skrapted it off into little rolled up tubes of magicalk icecream. Then he plopped them into a cup and but some more stuff on top and gave it to us. It was pretty good but the fanciness of it was more worth it.
This last week it has snowed every single day of the week and has been pretty cold. That hasn't stopped us though from runnisn every other morning. This last time we ran we stopped to take a short break before we ran back home and we noticed that we each had ice on our eye brows and lashes. So yeah that was cool.
There is one guy that has started coming to English Practice who is super Ukrainain in the fact that he only knows Ukrainian and no Russian or English and has some craxy ideas. Most of the time we have no idea what he is talking about but we know enough to know that he is a traditional Ukrainian folk dancer. And he showed us a dance off he had with another guy on his phone and then showed us in real life what it looks like. He is pretty crazy.
Through everything that has been going on the only thing that is consistant is that our appartment is impossible to warm up to a comfotable temperature and reading the Book of Mormon everyday. One of these things wakes us constantly cold and the other gives us a sustaining warmth that caries us through out the day. If you can't figure it out the appertment makes you cold while the Book of Mormon fills you with light, life and joy. I would invite each of you to more attentivly read the Book of Mormon each day individually and as a family.
Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson
Here are some pictures finally.
Here are some pictures finally.
There this a Beatles monument thing across the street from the mall right by our appartment and there is always Beatles music playing there.
There is a street whick is trasnlated to "Street of Cosmonauts" and there are lots of less-active members that live on this street.
We went Ice sckating with a guy from Lebonon who speak English better than us.
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