This week's big miracles are brought to you by fasting haha. Zeena, one of our investigators that we found through our english practice asked us to fast for her on Tuesday to help her to find a job (we had already fasted on Sunday but I would literally do anything for that sweet lady so we fasted with her), and that SAME day she finally found a job!! It was such a miracle and now Zeena has 100% faith in fasting. She works close to our branch building in Odessa Center so we visit her whenever we're around there. She is the bestest babushka and I love her so much. She is learning english and I am learning russian and sometimes all I can do is tell her I love her and hug her and she will say "I love you too" in english with a big smile and in her thick Russian accent and it's the best.
Wednesday was a long day. We left Tuesday night for a training conference back in Dnepr (a 12-hour ride) and went straight to the mission office on Wednesday morning for meetings. It was great to see some of my MTC district and catch up with all of them. We talked about the hard parts and the great parts and it was really helpful for me. Sometimes I'll feel like my confidence level in myself and my abilities is not where it should be, but we talked about how our confidence is and should be in the Lord and is NOT dependent on how many people agree with us. It was really something I needed to hear. After our meetings (and some of Sister Wirthlin's bomb sugar cookies) we got back on a night train (kind of starting to hate trains now. Also people were 100% smoking on our train hahaha) and went back to Odessa. Sister Larson and I were SO tired Thursday haha, but we were busy so we didn't really have time to be tired!
We're teaching a less active member, Elma, and she is really awesome. She just randomly showed up to church last Sunday and we've been "practicing" our lessons with her and she said her first prayer with us in 3 years and the spirit was so strong. It's so cool to see even after years of being inactive, the spirit is just as strong, if not stronger with that person when they decide to come back.
We also taught some english at an orphanage/shelter (they showed us their turtles) for families and kids who have been displaced from Donesk, and we visited the beach (gave me some serious home vibes--I miss the ocean!) and visited some of our members. I've said it before, but we have the best members here. Sister Larson and I and the other Elders that are in our district sang "I Need Thee Every Hour" in sacrament in 3 languages (Elder Ospina is from Colombia so we sang in Russian, English and Spanish) and it was really good!
Random stuff:
-Shashleek (not sure how to spell it in english) is this delicious pastry they have here. Its seasoned chicken and potato wrapped in a croissant. I'm eating one as I email and its wonderful.
-Things here are so fresh. Their fruits and vegetables might not look the prettiest, but man they are SO good.They also have bagged milk here that you don't have to refrigerate which I'm still trying to figure out.
-We also found a really good shwarma place here and its right on the main street that we walk on and every time we pass, the owner pokes his head out the window and says HI!!!! super loud haha. People here are the best.
That is all for this week! I love being a missionary and I love you all!!!
Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Kropelnicki
Sister Larson and me with the Opera House in the background
Holding the turtles at the shelter
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