Week 100 - Week ONE HUNDRED

April 22, 2019

What's up everyone.

We had transfers this week, but I figured out that I'll be staying here with Elder Thornton to finish out my last transfer here in the mish. Crazy that it's already here. Elder Blake is leaving and my second son Elder Howard is coming in to be in the district with Elder Crabtree! It'll be a fun district for my last transfer. We're all pretty stoked, but it's a bummer that Elder Blake is leaving.

We've met with Misha once or twice, and there is definitely a different vibe. Not sure how things are going to go in the future, but we still have high hopes and pray for him constantly. It seems just different teaching him now versus when he just started, but we can't really get the best read on him and the situation. Please keep him in your prayers!!

Katya, our other awesome investigator has been facing a lot of trials and complications with her desire to be baptized, and unfortunately is not going to be able to be baptized for a while. I probably won't be able to be here for it, but either way, I'm so happy and joyful for her desire to keeping enduring onward to baptism not batting an eye at all the trials that are thrown her way to overcome. I won't go too much into the complications because they are very personal, but please also keep her in your prayers!! She is so elect. It's amazing to teach her, because she always teaches US 10 times more than we teach her!! Man, I'm so grateful for her.

We've been doing a lot of our finding through English recently because it's our most successful and effective of finding people that we can consistently meet with. One cool thing that we've been doing for a while that I really like is we just take our dinky little chalkboard, write FREE ENGLISH TONIGHT AT 19:00 and just stick it there in the smack dab middle of the center of the city, and we stand around it and just go super hard handing out cards and talking to as many people as we can!! I actually like it a lot. The coolest thing is that you get peoples' attention in English, and then start talking to them in their decent, semi-broken, or completely broken English for so long until they don't understand something that you say, and then you whip out the Ukrainian and it sure throws some people for a loop. Always brings a smile to their face and mine!!

The Easter Program here was pretty good! I hope that everyone had a great Easter Holiday. It is one of the most significant holidays that we have, and as grateful as I am for Easter Egg hunts and Cadbury Chocolate, nothing compares to the greatest gift off the "egg that was empty". By that I mean the tomb that Christ Himself was laid in. One of the greatest, if not THE greatest knowledge that I have and the gift I can share with others is the knowledge and joy that Christ LIVES! He has already overcome everything that could possibly lie in the path between where He is, and where we are right now. One of the most comforting verses that comes from the New Testament for me speaks directly of Christ's Infinite Atonement and Infinite Victory over death and sin that is made possible for us as well!! John 16:33 states: "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world".

I KNOW that Christ lives, and did everything that He did not only for Humanity in general, but for each of us individually.

Oh and we made varenyky for a game night this week. Can't wait to show you Americans how to throw down in the kitchen like a Ukrainian Babusya.

My new favorite meal - Buckwheat

Have a great week!!

-Elder Dillon Stott