The title
is a lot more interesting than my week was,
HA! sorry.
We just
went to L'viv for another mission conference. I swear we have
those once every month now. President just reemphisized the 19
points of missionary work that we are focusing on in our mission, and
we had a great time learning and discussing methods for finding more
families to teach in each of our respective cities, and work
with the members who are already here.
Ivano is a
great city! I love this place THIIIIIS MUCH! *Arms extended
wide*.
I wish that
I had a whole lot of interesting stories to let you in on for our
week, but we didn't have a whole lot happen here. It's been
cold, and it's been humid.... like always.
One
EXCELLENT highlight of our week... with a bittersweet sting -- Orest
Rubitsky left for his mission yesterday! It's so cool to see
young men like him head off on the coolest adventure every. He
was so excited. Many members from the Branch went to the train
station to bid him off as he departed to L'viv, where he will serve
for a few days, and then be shipped of to Madrid for
training. He'll be an incredible missionary.
The
bittersweet sting comes from knowing that Orest was one of our most
helpful members in planning and running activities...
Take good
care of him Kiev. He's golden.
Cool little
miracle for you all --
Last night,
we planned to meet with an african man who we had contacted who
wanted a Book of Mormon in english. We dug through the library, found
the book --- but he didn't pick up his phone...
so after we had done most of our things there, we set out onto
the street to get home, packing the Book in our bag. Street
contacting after dark is very difficult, since Ivano is so poorly
lit. Most people think that I'm CIA as it is, and when you have
two figures dressed in big black coats approach you in the night, it
tends to make you a little less inclined to have a friendly
conversation with them about Jesus.
As we
walked up to a small cross-walk area, we found ourselves under one of
the few street lights to be found. Suddenly, a small -- clearly
not ukrainian -- man came into the light as well. I blurted out
one of the biggest "Hello"'s of my life. Not sure
where it came from. The man stopped and greeted us like we were
old friends. He told us his name was John, and that he was from
India. He's here for medical school, and that he is a
Christian. We instantly pulled out one of the most christian
books we had on us... and the only book we had with us in english --
BOOK OF MORMON! It was the craziest coincidence.
We're
planning on going over to his house tonight to teach him the first
lesson.
God's
pretty much the coolest. He makes lots of good things happen,
even from where you don't expect them.... like from India,
on a dark poorly lit street in Ukraine.
You
all keep doing what you need to do!
Be good,
wash your faces, and brush your teeth.
And study
the scriptures ALWAYS!
They're the
word of God, people.
--
Elder
LeBaron
--
Старійшина ЛеБерон
No comments:
Post a Comment