So there were two major highlights from this past week. Both
of them start with a ZO. One ends with ne Conference and the other o.
On Monday we were invited to go to the Kiev Zoo with a
family in the ward for one of their kid's birthday. So that was fun. And what
was even funner was the fact that the Cherkassy Elders were coming up to stay
with us for Zone Conference and they just "happened" to be there as
well. IT was all super fun. There wasn't a ton of people there at the Zoo which
meant that we could do just about whatever we wanted to. It is somewhat of a
small zoo compared to what we have in Salt Lake but it was a good one none the
less. The highlight of the zoo for me was probably when I got to see the
Alpacas and Sheep. It was like I was returning home. At least with their heir.
I just wanted to hop into the alpaca pen and sheer all of their hair off and
start spinning.
On Tuesday we helped with the Kiev East Zone Conference and
had an awesome district meeting.
On Wednesday was our own Zone Conference, the Kiev West Zone
Conference. The only thing I can say is that President Kumferman is a wise man.
It was a wonderful time to have the Spirit there in abundance and be taught be
a wonderful teacher.
This last Saturday was President Kumferman's Birthday and us
missionaries wanted to do something special for him. So each Zone during their
Zone Conference did something special. For example our Zone had each missionary
companionship find something under 15 Hrivna that remind us of President
Kumferman. Elder Glade and I gave him some Grammcrackers that Sister Mitchell
got from America and some milk. Because when we had our first Zone Conference
with President Kumferman he told us a story of how when he was considering
getting baptized his friends were trying to talk him out of it and one of the
things they told him was that if he got baptized that he couldn't have
grammcrackers and milk anymore. And apparently this caused some serious second
thoughts for young president Kumferman as his just absolutely loves
grammcrackers and milk. As well as each missionary's individual gift, all of
the missionaries in the mission pitched together and bought him a nice suit
case. President Packer in his last little bit before returning home bought this
same suit case and was known for saying how he wished that he had bought it
sooner on his mission. So we with the help of Kolya the mission secretary got
the same suit case for President Kumferman. He was absolutely ecstatic when we
presented it to him and took a little glory walk with it around the chapel,
waving his hand and smiling like he was royalty. a day later we were talking to
Maggie and Emma, President and Sister Kumferman's daughters her in Ukraine and
they were telling us about the that night after we gave him the suit case and
all of those other gifts. They said that he was so excited about everything and
was showing them everything. One companionship gave him a potato with a face
drawn on it and said that it was him as some kind of joke that went along with
an other gift and his daughters said that he excitedly pulled it out an said
"Hey look, it's me!"
From Zone Conference to Saturday we were busy with the usual
things but one thing that was special was when we got to do a Temple Tour.
Elder Glade's neighbors in Washington had an Foreign Exchange Student live with
them for a year who was from Ukraine. And for his whole mission he has been
trying to set up some kind of meeting with her to not just meet up but share
the Gospel. And this last week we got to do just that. She came and had invited
her friend as well and we had a great time showing them around the temple, the
family history center, the mission office and the church here and they seemed
to be pretty interested. And just today we got a Viber (a messaging company
here) message from her thanking us for the awesome tour.
Saturday was super busy for us. We as a district planned to
surprise President Kumferman on his birthday with breakfast. So the night
before we got everything set up and the morning of got the food all ready. We were
collaborating with Sister Kumferman to get him to the church and 10:00 and what
we didn't realize was that she had told him that the Sisters needed him on a
lesson that morning as a way of getting him there but she forgot to tell them
that she had said that. And on Friday he had made a comment to our sisters
about how he was excited for the lesson the next day. Their confusion led to
his suspicion. But none the less we had a great time putting on breakfast for
him. Right after that we set up for a Baptism that Pechersky was having and
then immediately went in to English Practice. Then immediately after that we
had a quick practice and sung for the Stake Concert that they do every month.
It was a busy day but of all good things.
We had a good and mostly calm Sabbath day with attending the
International branch and the Borshagovsky ward.
So we had a busy week. lots of things were learned and lots
of things given. I just can't wait for tomorrow when we get to have interviews
with President. It is always a very special experience.
Until next week!
Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson
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