There is a special place in my heart for those who serve
down in Odessa. Their trials and travels are no alien thing to me. I know
because I have experienced it myself.
This week we had another special Zone Conference. But this
time the special Zone Conference was extra special. We had not only both Kiev
Zones together but also with the Odessa Zone. Those poor Odessa missionaries
had to get on a bus at 3:00am and ride for 6 1/2 hours up here to Kiev in order
to make it here by the conference at 10:00 am. I understand this because this
was me. But it was awesome for me because I could pay attention probably unlike
them.
Also what made this a super special all mission conference
was that our Area President, President Martino came and taught us. That was a
really neat experience. And then for lunch we had sloppy-joes which was made by
Sister Mitchell as one of her last hurrahs that would continue even after she
left. She made everything and then froze it about a month ago and then left and
then we got to partake of her dedication to us. Another one of her "last
hurrahs" was completing (we actually did most of the work) the cook book
for the Senior couples here. The title is "Family favorites with a touch
of Ukrainian". Probably my favorite recipe in there is called
"Sloppy-joe meat for a 100 people".
After that there wasn't much that went on. I got sick and
was out for four days and am still by no means in the clear. But despite that I
was so sick we still didn't get home form the office until after 6:30 pm which
probably aggravated it.
But one thing that is noteworthy is that among all of the
many special conferences and meetings we had a special area broadcast on
Sunday. There we heard from Elder Golden on the Area Presidency, Elder Martino
the Area President, Sister Bingham the Relief Society General President, Elder
Kearon of the Presidency of the Seventy, and finally President Nelson of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
This week while at the office we got word that there was
"a big man who wants to learn more". We walk over front he office to
the church part of the building and the first thing we see is this huge wall of
person. The guy was a giant and not exactly thin either. We talked with him for
a little while and for a little longer while with Brother Rudenko our MCL.
Dmiti (the guy we are talking about) came on Sunday and watched the broadcast
with us. While Elder Glade was doing something I got cornered by him and he
just talked to me. He has a lot of strange ideas but there are those little
glimpses of promise. So we'll see what happens.
Before we watched the actual broadcast on Sunday we heard
from our local leaders. During this period the International Branch and the
Borschagovsky Ward were together and we first heard from the Branch President
of the International Branch who spoke to us in English while our Borschagosky
Bishop Translated into Russian, then President Podubny our Stake President
Spoke to us in Ukrainian and the same Bishop who translated before translated
for him into English. That was pretty impressive.
Elder Glade is Elder Glade. He made me chicken noddle
soup.
Things are going to get pretty difficult here in a little
bit due to the fact that we are loosing even more missionaries and not getting
enough in return. But as a mission in response to that have decided that we are
going to need to compensate somehow. And that some how is Spiritualhow. So we
are all going to read the Book of Mormon from Nov 1st to Orthodox Christmas.
This is going to be a really cool experience for us.
That is all.
Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson
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