Hello
everyone!
So,
this past week, we went on an adventure. I don't know if you
know this about me, but I love nothing more in the world than going
on adventures. So, needless to say, I was way excited to get to
go all the way to L'viv for Zone Conference last week. This was
an incredible experience for me, and I really enjoyed it! President
Lattin is a very wise man, and he has a great understanding of the
scriptures. It's admirable, to say the least. I had a lot
of questions answered by him, and felt that this was a much needed
experience for me.
As
part of this adventure, President and Sister Lattin had a surprise
for us; A sports activity, some "american food" (a
resturaunt called "Tex-Mex" [shout out to Hayden and
Kenna]), and then we watched Ephraim's Rescue. Our mission gets
the chance to enjoy some free time like that twice a year, once and
Christmas, and once around the 4th of July. I really loved it,
and felt a lot of unity with the other missionaries who are here
serving in our mission. I met and became friends with a lot of
the other missionaries who are in our zone, and in turn, and very
excited to see them find sucess throughout the mission.
The
focus of our Zone Conference was one four big subjects; Temples,
The Holy Ghost, Planning, and Setting Goals. I'm still
processing all of the great things we learned, but one of those was
just how much of a pinnacle thing the Temple is for all of the
members of the Church, and everyone else on earth for that matter.
President talked about how our goal is not only to get people
baptized as missionaries, but to set them up to make it all the way
to the temple someday!
Okay,
email title.
Icebaths;
Our quadrant of the city is having the water pipes worked on.
We do not have hot water, and will not for a 15 day period. It
is rather chilly, but I'm coming to find it to be refreshing.
Irish pub;
Yesterday (yes, sunday), we scheduled to meet with a friend of
ours from english, so that we could talk with him. We thought
that this would be a stellar opportunity to see if we could get him
to meet with us about the Gospel, and help him to start investigating
the church. We met him in front of the major centeral complex
here in Lutsk (it's called ЦУМ (ts-oom)). He was with a
friend of his who also comes to english practice, and we started
walking and talking. Elder Hadfield was talking with our friend
in english, and I was talking with his friend in ukrainian for about
30 minutes. They took us to an irish pub... and in order to
avoid an awkward situation, we explained the Word of Wisdom to them.
It was awesome! They completely agreed with us, that
drinking is bad, and that smoking should be avoided altogether. Our
friend's friend and I talked about how it's bad to have any sort of
addiction in our lives, and how we should avoid those things. They
ended up buying us some banana juice (we also told them that we don't
really buy stuff on sunday too.. but that was a whole completely
different awkward 5 minutes), and we all sat and chatted a little
while longer.
We didn't
get new investigators, but I finally got to teach a principle of the
restored gospel after a very long dry-spell. It was like a
waterbottle in the middle of the desert.
Well, I
love you all very much!
Thank you
for all of your support and love!
I'll be
praying for you!
Elder
LeBaron
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