We had the best time Skyping with Dillon this morning for just over an hour. He looks great and sounds great! His stories made us laugh, and the way he can speak the language had us all amazed. He had a great American Christmas and will get to celebrate a second Ukrainian Christmas in a few days. He shared his testimony with us - in Ukrainian, and it was incredible.
First things first, Merry Christmas everybody!!
Second things second, just like you don't want to spend time
reading emails on Christmas, neither do I want to write them!! I'll keep this
week short and sweet.
We have a new investigator named Andri. He was actually a
referral that we got! After coming across a Mormon Tabernacle Choir video, he
clicked his way through the web and ended up at lds.org,
reading about the Book of Mormon. After that he referred himself and requested
a copy of the
Book of Mormon. After a few dogged lessons and meetings, we were finally able to meet with him during the second hour of church. We have had 2 lessons with him, and he has already said that as soon as he receives an answer about the Book of Mormon and baptism, he is ready! Such a cool and surprisingly new experience. haha.
Book of Mormon. After a few dogged lessons and meetings, we were finally able to meet with him during the second hour of church. We have had 2 lessons with him, and he has already said that as soon as he receives an answer about the Book of Mormon and baptism, he is ready! Such a cool and surprisingly new experience. haha.
Christmas is great. We are without snow which is
kinda weird. But hey, I'm not complaining at all. It still is very much cold
enough for me! We had our tiny little Christmas tree with our American packages
all around. It was a good little set up.
On Sunday I was asked to give a 15 minute talk about
Christmas. I am still not a fan of giving talks. Especially in Ukrainian.
We had a great branch activity this week. 2 actually! On Thursday we were able to do an outdoor soup-kitchen sort of thing at a homeless shelter
for #LighttheWorld. The branch pulled it together so well and made SO
much food that everyone got to eat some. What a great way to spend an
afternoon. It was filled with great conversations and we were even able to sing a song to the people we served. No, we did not sing Hallelujah, thank goodness.
I hope everyone has a great Christmas Season. We all know
that giving is 10 times as good as receiving, but I do hope everyone will take
some time to think about all the things that they can give back to our Heavenly
Father. Heavenly Father is our God. No he doesn't need presents. No he doesn't
need money. He already has EVERYTHING!! And everything that we have is a gift from
Him. But, there is one thing that we can truly give to Him; something He
doesn't already have. Our hearts. Our desires, our actions, our words, our
thoughts - all these are things that we have to offer. It
makes sense that these are the only things that we can put at the
Lord's feet. We see examples over and over in the scriptures that when Heavenly
Father's children are righteous and obedient, it is only then that He receives
glory, joy, and happiness.
Merry Christmas to all from Чернівці
#LighttheWorld!!!
Love,
Elder Stott
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| Making our favorite breakfast for Christmas morning - Breakfast Burritos w/ homemade tortillas |
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| A little Christmas mood lighting on my night stand |
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| Beautiful empty mansions |
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| Gifts from home - tiny scriptures, deoderant, a watch and a CTR ring... |
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