A short Pre-Pday letter:
heads up. drunkards are covering the streets in like 3 hours so we had to lock down in the safety of our haunted apartment to avoid any crazies we might possibly run into on monday. we're allowed outside of our apartments tuesday morning. don't worry we have enough breakfast burritos to last us till then. talk to you on tuesday. if i don't write on tuesday it's because i'm at the hospital visiting the drunk man i had to knock out. :)
heads up. drunkards are covering the streets in like 3 hours so we had to lock down in the safety of our haunted apartment to avoid any crazies we might possibly run into on monday. we're allowed outside of our apartments tuesday morning. don't worry we have enough breakfast burritos to last us till then. talk to you on tuesday. if i don't write on tuesday it's because i'm at the hospital visiting the drunk man i had to knock out. :)
loveya
elder scott (as everyone here seems to call me)
This week was the craziest most un normal week on the mish.
Last Monday was Christmas. Super good to Skype
the fam and see all of them back home.
Tuesday got absolutely wrecked doing unimportant things due
to the fact that it was the day before Mission Conference and no one had
tickets to get there! We spent a good chunk of time searching for tickets to L'viv and at the
train station trying to squeeze 4 american missionaries onto a 6 AM train. Good
news was that we were able to make it in time to L'viv. Bad news was that we
couldn't find tickets to get BACK!
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| That's our #Light The World video playing in the train station! |
Mission Conference in L'viv was great. Our musical number
was super good. I'll have to find a copy from someone on the mission. I ate at
McDonalds for the first time in Ukraine! I don't know if it's good or bad that
it literally tastes exactly the same, but it was good. I also know that I
cannot throw down McDonalds and fast food like I used to. My stomach was NOT
happy with that Big Mac meal. It was pretty expensive too! One of the more
expensive meals that I've had in Ukraine.
After Mission Conference ended, we went to the big tree in
the center of Lviv and caroled. It was super fun. Got to talk to some drunk
people who sang along with us, and we actually witnessed a couple of miracles that
night. Elder Lukach and I reunited our original companionship and talked with people around the center while others sang. We ran into a inactive member who is about
21 and was baptized 2 years ago by a missionary that served in Elder Lukach's
home ward. So cool to talk to him and make that connection.
Right after caroling, we went to the L'viv Operahouse and
got FRONT ROW tickets to the Christmas show. Despite the naked women statues
and paintings covering the inside, it was actually super enjoyable. I was
peeking down on the orchestra almost the whole time. They also sang a bunch of
English songs and it was kind of hard to not laugh at some of the
pronunciations.
The next day, We got tickets for the way home... but only
halfway. We were stuck in Ivano for the whole day! We did more caroling there
also. I sang a little bit by myself on the center street in the city.
I'm slowly getting over doing scary things and especially singing in public. I was super nervous at first but it was so fun. After that, we ate at the legendary
Desyatkas. Oh how I miss that restaurant. I spent the most money on the biggest
amount of food I've ever eaten on my mission. No one thought that I'd be
able to finish everything I ordered, but I did :) We had a fun English
Christmas Jeopardy activity that night too. It was so weird to be back in my
first city for a day. It felt like I was serving there all over again. We
finally caught a train home and got back to Chernivtsi at midnight.
Then, it was back into the swing of things. But, due
to many past experiences of missionaries on New Years Eve and New Years Day, we
had to stay home and not leave from sundown on Sunday, (4:00) to Tuesday
morning. Which is why I'm writing today. The drunkards flooded the streets while
we deep-cleaned our apartment. That was fortunately my sickest day on the
mission, like sick-sick. I totally slept in. I'm just glad I didn't
have to miss out on real missionary work. I'm already feeling better.
I'm super excited to start the one-year stretch of pure
missionary work. 2018 from January 1 to December 31 will be filled with
missionary work. I have so many goals and expectations. I am almost 100% sure
that it will be the best, most difficult, most awesome year of my life. The
blessings and joys that come from difficult and hard missionary work are out of
this world. We receive the most when we forget ourselves and "get
lost" in the Lord's work.
It was announced at Mission Conference that I'll be training
one of the 2 new, incoming missionaries starting January 10th. It's going to
be the most responsibility that I've ever had, but I'm so ready
and excited for it.
I hope you all had a safe and fun holiday season. Everyone
have fun at the gym for these next 2 weeks!! ;) But in all honesty, the start
of a new year is a great time to make new goals for ourselves. It's my hope
that we can all rely on the Lord for whatever help we need! He will help us
become better people, and is so ready for us to make those changes. He will be right by our side.
Have a great week!
Elder Stott
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