Hello Family friends
First off, a shoutout to A Moesel because he's probably one of
the only people that reads these things!
We have another BAPTISM coming up on the 11th of August!! It
was honestly a crazy miracle how it all happened. His name is Vadim. I've met
with him about 4 times before we had to drop him due to a lack of progress. He
had read the entire Book of Mormon, and had a testimony of it, but saw no
purpose in the need for coming to church. He DOES live about 90 kilometers away
from the church, but there was nowhere else for him to progress to if he
wouldn't come to church, because of how important sacrament meeting is. It was
essentially the only obstacle between himself and baptism. After a rough day
while we were getting ready for bed, we got a text from him. We hadn't heard anything from him for about a month. He just told us that he had been
thinking about what we had told him a lot (we told him to keep reading and
praying about the Book of Mormon until he gets a testimony of the importance of
church attendance) and he had weighed out all the pros and cons in his head
about our message and his acceptance of it, and he said that he especially
thought a lot about how everything doesn't come at once, and said that he had
an experience that he considered personal revelation about the importance of baptism. He
asked us what he needed to do on his part and how to prepare correctly to this
ordinance. We were absolutely blown away. We responded immediately and set up a
lesson that would take place in less than 24 hours. The lesson (over the phone)
went great. We invited him to be baptized on a Sunday the second week of August
so that he could make one trip to do both baptism and confirmation, but he said that he felt he should
do them on separate days, meaning that he's going to come on Saturday the 11th
to be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost on the following Sunday! So
AWESOME!!!
K-Town has 3 baptismal dates at the moment which is
absolutely crazy. One of the other elder's investigators is getting baptized
this coming Saturday which is going to be a great experience as well.
We went to the gym 3 times this week with our
investigator... man.. it was just.. amazing. I honestly forgot what it was
like. It just feels so good! I bet my brother is shedding a tear of joy and a
tear or two of protein because he's so proud of me. I did it for you bro! haha.
Had a fun picnic with Dima and his family/friends. Tried to teach them how to throw a rugby ball. Watermelon is in season. Yesss.
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| This is little Dima, there's a big one too |
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| Ukrainian barbecue...just not the same |
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| Kavunnn Season!! |
Honestly, other than that not a ton happened. This week we
had 20 people at church. It may not seem like a lot, but 10 of those people
were investigators. I got to give a talk about sin, repentance, and returning
to sin. I accomplished one of my mission goals and I made the whole
congregation laugh!! If you think making people laugh during a talk in English is hard, try coming here and doing it in Ukrainian. A LOT
easier said than done.. the sense of humor that is common in America is just a lot
harder to find here. It's just a culture thing I guess. But I think I did the
trick in talking about spiritually throwing up. (Reference 2 Peter 2:20-22) :)
It's been a good week. We're just out here grinding!!
Have a good week!
--
Elder Dillon
Stott
Vul. Yabluneva
1
S. Sofiivska
Borshahivka
Kyivska oblast
08131
Ukraine
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| Making varenyky |
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