This week we met with one of our investigators, Oksana, and read 2 Nephi 31 and talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's so cool to see how the scriptures teach the missionary lessons for us. I've been reading lately in The Book of Mormon marking in different colors where it talks about the Gospel of Jesus Christ (faith, repentance, baptism, gift of the holy ghost, endure to the end) and it has been SO cool. Highly recommend! I'm planning to finish on my birthday in September so I'll let you know the final verdict ;)
We also met with Жанна (Zhana) and Пётр (Peter) and there son Даня (Donya) and talked about Jews and Gentiles (because they had a question about that last time, they asked if God loves the Jews more than the Gentiles) and we talked about how it's like when you have two kids, you don't love one more than the other, but you do parent them differently, and are dissapointed when one does something wrong. But no matter what they do you will always love them equally. I think it clicked with them. Every time we meet with them I am reminded just how stinkin COOL they are.
Sunday Зоя (Zoya, one of the people we're teaching but who wants to get baptized with her children, so she hasn't gotten baptized yet) brought her daughter настя (Nastia) to church and we taught her the first lesson after church! Woo. It was a great lesson, and настя at first was like "yeah, my church believes that" but as the lesson went on she started to say more "woah, that is so cool, I didn't know that!" We challenged her to pray about The Book of Mormon and we're going to try to meet with her this week again. She is golden, so awesome.
Some more random stuff:
-This week on the metro we were rushing (as usual) to a meeting and we barely got on the metro train before the doors closed, but my shoulder bag... didn't quite make it. So I just held onto the strap inside the train as my bag flapped in the wind (see picture below). Everyone in our car was craning their neck to get a better look... haha. And then we got to our stop and the doors opened and we went on our way (no damage, miraculously, was sustained to said bag). I feel like I have an embarrassing thing happen to me at least once a day here, it's great.
-My sister sent me a package of american food (box stuffing, fishy crackers, nature valley bars, poptarts, etc.) and this week I think I ate more processed foods than I have in these last 6 months here haha. I had mac n'cheese yesterday for lunch and it was AMAZING. Thanks Hannah.
-Our mission is converting all of our paper area book records to online and it's been a little tedious but it will be really nice once it's all done! But this week when we were looking through old records I saw a familiar name of an elder who wrote one of the entries--Дафи! (Duffy) and for those of you who know the Duffys, I am in the same apartment that Matthew Duffy was in on his mission in Donetsk Ukraine! Small world, so cool!
That is all for this week! I love you all so much!!
Love,
Sister Kropelnicki
Sport night
"Happy city"
Our branch president and Maxim, a super funny member
Sunflowers!
Yep, that happened
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