11/13/2017
Good day to all of my readers. I hope that if you regularly
happen here or even if this your first time that you will find something
interesting and of use. Hopefully.
So if you are one of those regulars then you might remember
what happened last week during Priesthood meeting. Brother Marchevsky the
Elders Quorum President set us up with a whole bunch of lessons with members
for us to teach them and then eventually have them invite some one over to have
them in their homes and have us teach them with them. This week we had probably
more lessons than I have had in any other week of my mission! Also, do you
remember Oksana? Sorry that is a bad reminder. Every women in Ukraine is named
Oksana. But the one Elder Glade's neighbors had as a foreign exchange student
in America and then came and did a temple tour with us? Yeah so we met with her
and she is now an investigator! The lesson was actually mostly in English
because she knows English better than we know Russian. And she also thinks it
is kind of weird to talk to us in Russian because she is so used to talking
with Americans not in Russian or Ukrainian but in English. We had a lesson with
this one family the Parhomenkos. They have two little girls that are about 9
and 13. There is also a mom who has some problems and some others who are also
members. We heard that when ever the Sisters go over that it is a nightmare
trying to get the two little girls to focus and that they have been teaching
the commandments with them and left off at the Word of Wisdom. So we devised a
plan of how to take charge and get everyone involved. So we went over and
brought over colored pieces of paper. To engage everyone and especially Dasha
and Leya (the two girls) we did origami and we showed them how to make those
fun little springy-thingy toys. And as we were going along we stopped and wrote
on the paper things we are not supposed to put into our bodies and then a
little further with the folding and then write those things that we are
supposed to eat and the blessings we can receive from obeying this law. It
worked perfectly. I am either a genius or just or just think I am and they were
just behaving because we were new. After we made our Springy-Thingies I learned
the Russian name the Leya the 9 year old gave it. She called it a Пригнтчик
(prignutchik) which being translated is a jumper or something that jumps.
On Saturday we had English Practice as usual but then after
we had an awesome meeting with Armen who is now another of our new
investigators. The meeting went a little long mostly due to how he likes to
talk a lot a tell long stories. But everything went great with him.
Yesterday Armen unfortunately didn't come and neither did
anyone else's investigators. But that's okay because we got our first snow. And
Brother Marchevsky the Elders Quorum President that you have already heard
about followed up in 3rd hour with us about all of our meetings we had this
last week and set up even more for this week!
Do you remember Anthony and Blessing who recently got
baptized? of course you do. Blessing has a sister who was also taking the
lessons from Elder Lundquist and Hatch but didn't feel quite ready as Anthony
and Blessing were. But great news, yesterday at the end of church we
interviewed her for baptism and she is super ready. By the way. Her name is
Mercy in case you forgot.
This week we decided to bring home one of the huge 12 liter
pots form the office so we could make a big pot of borsch that would last us
the whole week. It was pretty fun and turned out pretty good too. But after it
all it looked like Vietnam in our kitchen because of all of the beets.
last night I was using Elder Glade's phone because some one
called him on that one thinking that it was me (we have two phones in the
Office) and after I was done I went to toss it onto his chest be I accidentally
threw it way too hard and hit him in the face with his own phone. I felt so bad
but he says that he just thinks it is funny. And this morning when we woke up
he had a big bruise over the bridge of his nose. Man, no wonder I get moved
around so much.
Another interesting thing that happened this week. President
Kumferman has a desktop computer that he uses at home in his office and at a
scheduled time it makes you change your password. We got a call from him one
day and he was a little bit anxious and he explained that he had got that
message on his computer but due to the busyness with interviews (oh yeah, we
also had interviews this week) that he hadn't had a chance to change his
password and now the computer is locked. So we went over prepared with couple
of things we had prepared at the office to hopefully override this lame
password changing thing. We got there and spent some time there but to no
avail. We had an idea of something that might work but needed to know another
password to something so President Kumferman called up President (well I guess
not President anymore) Packer. Right he initiated the called Sister Kumferman
got an important call from another mission President that he was also supposed
to be a part of. So Elder Glade and I we left alone in the Mission President's
private office talking with President Packer trying to hack into his
computer.
So thins week was an eventful one filled with meetings and
rain and snow and sunshine. Sometimes all at once. Pretty much a great
week.
Also. Our milk is going to last longer than Elder Glade is
according to the expiration date.
Today is Elder Glade second to last P-day.
We have two family home evenings today.
Winter is here.
I have an orange on my desk.
We accidentally put 200 grivens worth of rides on my metro
card.
Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson
Elder Glade's bruise
An advertisement we saw on the way to the temple. It says Хщтите
такую рекламу? Which means "Do you want this kind of
advertisement?"
