August 6, 2018
Hey fam.
This week flew by like crazy. We were super busy or as a Ukrainian would say it, "we had our butts in the soap this week". I'll just fill
you in on some highlights.
Elder Cluff and I ran to a stadium to play football there
but got kicked off before I even tied my shoes on the field. Some grandma lady
came out and scolded us so I explained everything super nicely how we were just
dumb Americans and didn't know we shouldn't be there. She turned into my newest grandma friend!
We contacted for a longgg time this week on the streets. One
morning this week we contacted this guy and talked to him for a little bit. It
soon turned into us walking with him for 45 minutes on his way to work. We
walked past a jungle gym and he asked us if he could work out really fast.
We'll sit through anything to be able to teach the gospel out here, so we were
sharing the gospel with Anatoliy as he was doing dips, pullups, and knee raises
on this jungle gym for a little while. We then walked more with him and then as
he had to leave he was just like "eh, nah I'm not interested thanks
though." and we were like whaaaaattttt?! So that was a bummer. But, he came to our English practice and game night so we were able to talk to him there.
Speaking of game night, we did water jousting. You basically
swing together 2 bags of water that you arm with a weapon and armor, and
whoever pops the other one wins. It was fun, especially because I had a plastic
plate and a knife as my armor and weapon, going against paper armor and paper
clip jousts. If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'. Also, our ceiling broke
during it. oops.
We had 2 exchanges this week, one being me with the other Elders of the district, and then the zone leaders from Rivne came down to be
with me. They both went good. We have such solid missionaries here in Ukraine
and it's such a good confidence boost to be surrounded by good missionaries and
good people everywhere you look. On the exchange with Elder McGrath, we ended
up getting super binked in our schedule. We contacted for about 5 hours
throughout the day. As most people would assume, I enjoy talking to strangers
about the gospel, despite the rejections, laughs, mocking, and lack of success
that comes with it the majority of the time. And also for the first time this
week, I got flipped off by a bunch of teenage girls! I wasn't actually the
one who saw it, but Elder Cluff was all of a sudden just like "man, those
girls legit just flipped us off". And I wasn't gonna let my man Elder
Cluff take that. I asked him which girls it was, and he showed me the group of
5 teenage girls sitting there. I said "let's go talk to
them!" and started my way back. Elder Cluff was like no no no Elder Stott
don't do it man. But as soon as they saw us walking back, the 4 other friends
of the bird-girl started to freak out and laugh and get
nervous. I talked to them for a little bit and humbled her, just a little, in front of her
friends. She didn't get much nicer during the conversation, but her friends
were losing it the entire time. It was pretty funny to be honest.
We went to the gym a couple times with Zhenya and Dima this
week. You're now reading the email of the newest ZARYADKA gym member!! We
always leave the gym and swing by the market to grab a bunch of food to make
all kinds of stuff to eat, then go home and CHOW, then have a super solid
lesson with him, his brother, and his mom.
Our investigator who had the baptismal date is moving to
L'viv on the 25th because he got accepted into the university there. As happy
as I am for him, it's still kinda a bummer. He's actually going to be rooming
with Zhenya in the same apartment which is super cool. They both met at church
and clicked super well. Hopefully they'll keep spiritually progressing together
in L'viv with a branch that has more youth and might help them both see that
the Church is more than just the 4 missionaries and 6 members that come on
Sunday here in Khmelnytskyy.
Transfers came this week in texts.. it was weird to not get
a call from President himself, but either way it's all the same. I will be
staying in K-town. Elder Cluff and Corey are both leaving. I'll be in a trio
for 1 week with Elder Gallafent and Elder Baxter. After 1 week, Elder Gallafent
is going home and I'll be with Elder Baxter for his last transfer before he
leaves. I'm SUPER excited to serve with Elder Baxter. Every time there's a
conference in L'viv and we sleep at the same apartment, we always would talk
and be like "man.. when are we gonna serve together, huh?" AND
NOW WE'RE GONNA!! It'll just be me and him in this city now, because numbers
are going down in missionaries. I'm pretty sure I'll stay even another transfer
after he leaves so I can either train someone or get a new comp from the old
Kiev mission and THEN I might leave. I'm excited for the work load to increase,
as we will be absorbing another area and now the whooole city is under our
stewardship. This might be the most excited that I've been from a transfer yet
on my mission. If I had to choose a missionary to be alone with for a whole
transfer in one city, Elder Baxter would be one of the first ones I would
choose. I'm so ready to kill another missionary and get to WORK and end his
mission with the hardest-working transfer on his mission! It's gonna be a
blast.
We're also moving EVERYTHING into one apartment, so a ton of
this week has been cleaning and moving and packing to get ready to close down
our old apartment. We're already all 4 of us in the one tiny apartment, so it's
fun as I'm unpacking and everyone else is packing. Bags are everywhere.
This has been the hottest week on my mission hands down.
It's only been in the 80s but I swear it's been 95 nonstop for the past week. I
take 2 showers every day and we have fans going in the aparment all day. No AC
here.
That's about all that happened this week. I'm super excited
for this next transfer with the man Elder Baxter. We're gonna get some work
DONE!!
Have a good week!!!
--
Elder Dillon
Stott
Vul. Yabluneva
1
S. Sofiivska
Borshahivka
Kyivska oblast
08131
Ukraine
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