February 18, 2019
What's up Everyone!
I'll keep this one short, because you all know the news! Missionaries can now call or skype home on P-days! Like everyone else, upon first hearing it, I had mixed feelings and didn't know
if it was the best idea. But, the more I talk and think about it, I realize
just how many good things there are about it! I'm so stoked to see all those
goobers!! I'm so grateful for modern revelation that exists in Christ's true
church through modern day prophets and apostles!
We spent P-day in L'viv and went bowling as an entire
district after visiting an Armenian Historic Church in downtown L'viv that is I
think 500ish years old, or maybe older. We celebrated Elder Lukach's birthday
and had a cake there at the bowling alley and that was super fun.
We had a branch Valentine's Day activity that was pretty
good too. The best thing about it was the fact that for the first time,
missionaries didn't have to do all the planning and putting together of the
activity! We were just able to show up early and help set up, and that was it!
It was especially fun for me, being that it was all stress-free. haha.
Honestly I totally forgot about Valentine's Day in the first place until about
half way through the day. It was so funny to me to see the difference between
the first Valentine's Day and this one, because on the first one I was just so
sad and all that, but this year it was just a joke hahaha. First year
missionaries, keep your chins up!!!!
We had a couple of referrals come in this week from Salt Lake,
and one who lived about a 45 minute bus ride away showed up at church! I was
nervous because he was sitting by himself, and I was on the stand, so for the
whole meeting I thought he felt kinda lost, but we talked afterwards for a while and he loved everything about it. He took a Book of Mormon, Liahonas, the
Come Follow Me study program, and other stuff too. He was asking what he has to
do to get baptized into the Church, and so we got to talk about that too! His
name is Ihor, he's around 55 years old, and is a general/leader in
the army where he is stationed in Dubno. Please keep him in your prayers!
Because I'm in the Branch Presidency, I got to take part in
the audit that we did with a member from Kyiv whose calling is related to
Church Finances and all that stuff. It was my 2nd one on my mission, because I
did it back in Chernivtsi, too. It was a looong tedious process, but
man, I learned SO much from doing it and was actually grateful for the
experience. I was writing a bunch of stuff down and soaking up as much as I
could, and when the man from Kyiv left, he shook my hand and said "good
job, I can tell you learned lots today." and that was dope. Fulfilling our
callings in The Church is sooo important. It's our way of showing God that He
can trust us! As we serve others in our small and simple, and maybe seemingly
insignificant means, we our blessed so much! No act of service goes unnoticed
by our Heavenly Father.
Have a great week!!
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| Our favorite pizza - with an egg cracked on top |
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