Okay, okay let's get this over with...
Yes, this week was good.
Monday was P-day, and I don't think we did anything out of
the ordinary.
Tuesday was jam packed with meetings and calls and
conferences, and practicing our musical number for the conference. Elder
Wonson and I went on splits to teach the grandparents of the 3 recent converts,
Yaroslav, Lyosha, and Hloria. The lesson went amazing. It's the most that I've
felt the spirit testifying through me during a lesson. It was almost all in
Russian, but I understood enough and could speak back to them in Ukrainian which was super nice. They were very accepting to the Gospel and were just so
interested in what it was that could possibly make such young teenagers in a scary world so
happy. I just testified nonstop about the Book of Mormon. They are some of the coolest 75 year-old people I've met. The Grandpa is a boxing trainer and is just
the funniest person ever. The Grandma is low-key in love with me but like it's
okay. Dilanchik is what she calls me. The Gift of Tongues was for sure present
during our lesson. I don't really know HOW I was understanding straight up
Russian, but the Holy Ghost blesses US as missionaries when we have such strong
desires to share the gospel with everyone.
Conference was AMAZING. So much good stuff. I know that our
President is a man called of God! We performed our musical number.. It was...
aight. hahaha. We didn't end up singing our other song though, which I was kinda sad about "butt" it's okay!! We got roasted after our musical number because
3 of us were wearing the exact same suit. President said we looked like a 60s
rock band. But it was funny!! There were actually like 6 or 7 of us with the
exact same suits. President made us split up for the mission picture
hahahah.
I went to Ivano Frankivsk this week to be on exchanges with
Elder Galmeister. It was so so good and fun. We worked super hard and talked to
100s of people on the street when we did a Book of Mormon Bookstand. So many
cool people in that city. We also ate at Desyatkas. I always eat and spend too
much when I go there.. I bought a couple of handmade Ukrainian ties there too.
Because I melted my last one. oops.
Saturday was filled with trains from Ivano to L'viv and L'viv to Uzhgorod. I slept for like 9 hours on all the trains hahahaha.
Church was kind of a let down.. we only had 18 there, and one
of the members just went super hard roasting another one of the members
and it caused a huge argument in the other room after church. I dipped out real
quick to the keyboard and played "Love at Home" and sang with some of the kids
until it all died down. It was at max volume too. It was pretty funny to be
honest. Pride is such a dumb little bugger.
Have a good week everyone!!
--
Elder Dillon Stott
Ukraine L'viv Mission
Akademika Sakharova 43 str. #311
L'viv 79026 Ukraine
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