Hey Mom and the 4 others that probably just look at pictures!!
This week flew by super fast but it feels like last p-day was a month ago. Tak bahato sprav.
Mukachivo: To start out, on Wednesday, on our way to Khust, we decided to go to the city of Mukachivo to do some missionary work there. It was SO good. We met with a lady that we had actually met here - she was super interested in the Gospel and she is doing great. We ate with her, talked more with her, and shared our testimonies of the Book of Mormon with her. She's in America now until June though. Go find her in New Hampshire!!! haha. After her lesson got cut short, we spontaneously journeyed our way to the castle. It was pretty awesome. We actually met a potential investigator in the museum part of the castle. She loved us and tried to get us to both consider marrying her granddaughter. That happens a lot with the older women here. They start naming all the things that their daughters or granddaughters can do so well. Apparently it's super attractive if a girl knows how to work on a computer. Gotta get my priorities straight I guess!!! I have a TON of pictures from there. I hope my mom chooses ones where I don't look stupid. :) I've come to trust her most of the time. Molodetz, mama. Castle pics...
Church: President Rizley came down this week to church, to give Brat Peretz the Melchizedek Priesthood! We had 32 PEOPLE at church. Record number!!! There were a couple of visitors from Kiev that came with President, but even without people that wouldn't come usually, or visitors, we still had more people from Uzhgorod there than ever!! Vasya, our investigator, along with Serhi came to church! It was so awesome, and perfect timing. One person actually had to stand during Sacrament Meeting because it was so packed - even after completely rearranging chairs. I was tucked in my corner playing the Keyboard (on the organ setting) the whole time.
Weather: Sweater Weather or Sweatier Weather?? It was super hot this week. 80s already!! uhhh yeah that's the weather haha. We're sweating now... I don't like it at all. haha
Fun: We played basketball this week with some of our friends we met when we played some ball a while ago. We met up with them, and actually got to have a lesson with one of the kids who had heard some stuff and read some super fake stuff on the internet about Mormons, so we were able to answer a ton of his questions. His name is Vladik. He's super dope. He's 16 years old, loves pizza, and dreams of basketball. They all seem to. They all came to our English practice that had 18 people (record number) and then we all went to Chili Pizza later this week. It was super fun and they are probably some of the best friends I've made in Ukraine so far. There's 5 of them that are super tight - almost like brotherhood. They're so funny and fun to be with!! I hope that everything goes well with Vladik. We had a huge Restoration lesson with him, and he accepted a Book of Mormon! He said he's going to read it. His only problem is that he LOVES the internet and thinks that Joseph Smith is part of the Illuminati! We're working on it though :) I'll snag a picture with them today, we're playing ball with them again later!! People are so much more accepting of gospel discussions, our message and even just talking about religion when they see that we are normal, real, fun, and HAPPY people. It's been really cool to use basketball a little bit to get some potential investigators!!
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| Tender mercy - still able to dunk |
Exciting: We're going to L'viv and Ivano Frankivsk next week. Mission Conference will be on Thursday, and yours truly is part of 2 musical numbers. We just found out about one of them 2 days ago... so we're prepping super quick. haha. Then right after conference, Elder Mangum and I are going down to Ivano to do exchanges with Elder Galmeister (formerly known as G-Daddy) and Elder Aslanyan (from Armenia). 3 of my favorite people in the world. It's gonna be so fun and a HUGE learning experience!! Exchanges are so awesome because you get to work with someone new and see the ups and downs of doing things differently, and in a different city. Sometimes you get caught in too much of a routine serving with one person 24/7, so exchanges serve as a missionary work eye-opener.
Funny: I got locked in the bathroom for an hour. I don't really wanna talk about it hahahaha. But, basically the lock literally broke AND SO DID the inside of the doorhandle. Just my luck. The washer was also running on max temperature, so it was so freaking hot.. My GENIUS district members (because our whole district is still in one apartment) tried a couple of things. They 1: successfully hammered off the door handle, 2: Hammered a Knife through the WALL trying to break the lock. 3. Took a video of the whole thing 4.Handed me a screwdriver through a hole in the door (that was already there - it's a decorative hole like the size of a quarter) and then I took the door off the hinges like a non-caveman civil person. #domestic!!!
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| Elder Mangum trying to jailbreak the bathroom door - w/ a hammer and butter knife |
Yeah. Don't get locked in your bathroom, kids.
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Elder Dillon Stott
Ukraine L'viv Mission
Akademika Sakharova 43 str. #311
L'viv 79026 Ukraine
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