Sister Kropelnicki in Ukraine: Week 30: Novi Doma!

Hello all from Novi Doma! After a day of sitting in the Kiev airport on Monday I made it to Kharkiv :) My comp, Sister Бевзюк (Bevziuk), is the greatest, most patient, kindest missionary. I feel so lucky to be able to serve with her (while she waits for her *baby who is visa-waiting).

This week was a crazy blur of meeting new people, english practices, a sport night, meeting my new branch (they have a beautiful building that looks like a mini one of what we have back home, and the people are so nice and welcoming. Everyone thinks I'm from Poland because of my name haha) It's also soo beautiful here (so many awesome parks to contact in) and it's not so crazy hot and humid as Odessa so woot.

We had a meeting on Wednesday with a girl named настя (Nastiya) who only has a few lessons left until she can be baptized and she is SO cool. She's 14 and literally asked us like 5 times if she could be baptized on Saturday haha. We're hoping in a few weeks she'll be able to. Her parents aren't super supportive but she loves the church and she talked about how she wants to become closer to God and how her life has gotten better since she first came to church.

We also met with some recently baptized members and did a Book of Mormon reading on Sunday night with some of them and it was really great (we read 1 Nephi 8). We did chalkboard contacting afterwards and got some new contacts from it! We're meeting with one of them tonight. We asked people to write a question that they would want to ask God, and people wrote really good questions. It was cool to see how easily The Book of Mormon can really answer a lot of the common questions that people have.

We also met with some other investigators that have kind of plateaued but are still interested in the lessons and being baptized. One of them was supposed to be baptized a few weeks ago but said she wasn't ready when the day came, but she told us this week that she wants to work towards baptism, she just has some things she wants to sort out before she does. We're hoping to meet with her again this week.

Also Sister Бевзюк is really good at cooking and she makes all kinds of super delicious Ukrainian food and goodness I am so spoiled. She is a literal angel and After 5 days I already love her to death. Also, serving with a native is the best! We pretty much only speak Russian and wow it has helped me so much with my language skills. I am seriously blessed.

Well that is all for this week! Next Saturday is transfer calls (this transfer was a weird, short one) and I'll know if I'm going to stay in Novi Doma for 6 more weeks or go somewhere else! I'm torn because I really want Sister Бевзюк to train her greenie but I also want to stay here! So we'll see what happens :)

I love you all so much!!
Sister Kropelnicki

*New companion who is a brand-new missionary