Hello Family and Friends.
This week wasn't super duper crazy, but Elder Devey got
here!! It's been preeeetty crazy in the apartment with all 4 of us. Closet space is a nightmare and you're always stepping over something of
someone's, but other than that, things are going great. It's been especially
weird because they didn't give a phone to Elder Devey to bring into his
companionship to Uzhgorod, so they have no phone, meaning.. that they have to
stay with us. He's been here since Thursday. It's so weird walking around in a big group hahaha but I guess it's the same "getting used to" that I got
used to when I went into a trio. They were supposed to get the phone on
Saturday, but they didn't. It was supposed to get here today, butttt didn't.
That's okay though. The more, the merrier (sometimes)
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| Elder Wonson, me, Elder Devey and Elder Mangum |
We had our Easter Finding Activity this week!! The board has
written on it "What did Christ do for you?" It was pretty awesome. It
was the day before Easter, and there was just tons of people. That means a lot
of conversations, and especially a lot of interesting people haha. The picture
of the man that looks like a mini Dr. House is perhaps the most interesting
person I've met on my mission. He's from Germany. We spoke 4
different languages together throughout our conversation. He knew German,
English, Ukrainian, and Russian. That was hard to keep up with. He's a fugitive artist who sculpts and does paintings of politicians - using dog waste as his medium. When he told me this story, I busted out
laughing. I had to get a picture with the man.
Finding Activities on
the street are always the best. For activity we bought
(really expensive and almost impossible to find) plastic eggs and painted them
and set them out on the table in a basket. We invited people up to open them
and see what was inside. They were always confused when they found nothing
inside. We compared it to the empty tomb of Christ. It was a stretch for some
people, but it was a pretty fun conversation starter. We found a lot of success
with a lot of new people and new investigators!! Some other things we saw that
were awesome: 1) kid faking to be deaf and talking to us until I caught
him. He wanted to fight one of us. It was funny. 2) we met a Jewish lady from the US and her kids literally
started punching her like crazy and she just didn't do anything about it. They
like tackled her literally to the ground and she just got up and started talking.
We had no idea what the heck to do.. American kids are crazy.
It's also finally Spring here now. Out of nowhere. It's
blossoming everywhere. 3 weeks ago was an ice storm. Oh well. We're always
ready for anything anyways.
General Conference was SO GOOD. I think it was the best one yet. So
many good talks of good people sustaining a great man who is truly called as a
prophet of God! My favorite part of the whole conference, beside Elder Bednar's
talk about meekness, was the Solemn Assembly.. Such a uniting and indescribable experience. We are all supporting our prophet from all the corners of the
earth!!
We celebrated Easter with the soon-to-be-branch on Sunday.
We made them breakfast burritos. It was a huge hit. They loved them!! It was so
awesome to celebrate the Resurrection of the Son of God!! So many amazing words
were spoken during conference, and I know that through Christ our Savior, we
can truly be saved from our sins that bear us down in this world. He is our
best friend, our brother, and our light in our lives. He knows us perfectly and
loves us perfectly. He simply wants us to turn to Him so we can feel his love
and influence in our lives. He is my Savior and I know that I can always turn
to him, set aside my pride, and put everything at His feet. He suffered in the
garden and on the cross on behalf of our imperfectness. He loves us so much more than
we could ever imagine. I know that this is the same church that He
established when He was on the earth, and that God loves us so much that He has
called living PROPHETS and APOSTLES in our time to guide us back to him. I love
Him with all my heart.
Have a great week!!!
Elder Stott
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Elder Dillon Stott
Ukraine L'viv Mission
Akademika Sakharova 43 str. #311
L'viv 79026 Ukraine
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| My new Ukrainian-made suit |
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