Sadly, this was my last week as a L'viv Ukraine missionary. But I'm excited to be a part of the Kiev Mission now. It's going to be a
big change, but it really doesn't matter to me which mission I serve in,
or where I am. No matter what, it's the Lord's work!
Not a ton of new stuff this week.
It rained almost all week this week, so a lot of time was
spent indoors. Rain and thunder here is super intense, and all the roads turned
into little rivers. It was pretty fun haha.
We did our first sports day, and I kinda had to push the
district into doing it, because half of us don't really enjoy sports that much. BUT the good news is that I no longer hate soccer!!! It rained super
hard, and only Dima and Zhenya showed up, so we played baby soccer in the
church. I was awful at the beginning, but it got so fun at the end. We
played for three hours. A chair was the goal, and we played 3 on 3 with a ball
the size of a grapefruit. I learned some new moves and already can't wait for
the next time.
We only had 13 people at church this week, and I
actually had to lead sacrament meeting! It was super scary up until I
stood at the pulpit and started the meeting and then it was no big deal.
Doesn't mean I enjoyed it though.
Something funny from this week, 2 things actually haha. They
both happened on our game night. #1 is the fact that Ukrainians can't say "M&Ms" hahaha. They always just say "em em dems". We all
laughed so hard. #2 is that everyone here for some reason, every guy at least,
is in love with my brother Josh, and his fitness account on Instagram. Every English practice
night they all gather around someone's phone and go to his Instagram and look
at all his pictures and just lose their minds. They ask me why I'm so small and
why he is so huge. They watch him bench press and just go crazy like they're
watching the world cup or something and someone scored. This week out of
nowhere, Dima (the youngest one in the picture of all the food) just looked up
and yelled: "JOSSHH CEENAAA!!" and did the little tune to it.
Everyone DIED. He said it in his little thick Ukrainian accent and it was just
something you had to be there for I guess hahaha.
This week at Lesya and her sons' house, (Dima=younger,
Zhenya=older) we all came over and ate a TON of traditional Ukrainian food and
it was literally the tastiest thing EVER. They taught us also how to make
вареники which are now my favorite Ukrainian food. It's a sin for saying this
and comparing them to it but they're kinda like raviolis that you can stuff with anything. We even made my favorite ones with cherries on the inside. You eat
them with sugar and sour cream. They're just so good - I could eat them every
day.
Things are going good here in K-town. We're going to L'viv
next week for 3 days for a conference there with our new mission president,
President Kumferman. He's super different from President Rizley, but I know it's going to be great. We have 9 original L'viv missionaries (from our 32) that are
going home. SUPER sad. I'm gonna miss them like crazy.
Have a good week!!
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Elder Dillon
Stott
Vul. Yabluneva
1
S. Sofiivska
Borshahivka
Kyivska oblast
08131
Ukraine
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