This week was full of lots of bus coordinating because lots of people had to get lots of places for the beginning of the new transfer. Three sisters had to get to Dnipro and came through Kharkiv because they were training new sister missionaries and it was kind of hectic. A sister would come, but to a different bus stop than we thought, or she would be in a train when we thought she was coming on a bus... it was fun. But everything's good now and our mission is now super "young" because 15 missionaries went home last week and 7 came in (a big chunk considering there's only about 70 missionaries total in our mission). So fun stuff, I feel so blessed to be here!
Sister Rawlinson and I took a crazy marshrutka ride with our elders to Dnipro for mission leadership conference (MLC) and we passed so many beautiful fields of sunflowers! And the sun was just rising and it was really cool. At MLC we talked about tons of stuff, one of the things that really stuck out to me was the importance of making sure that the people we are teaching know and understand the significance of the sacrament before their first Sunday. And then I thought about how much I've learned about the sacrament just on my mission alone. Honestly, a few years ago I knew what sacrament was, but I didn't understand what it really meant, and how incredibly beautiful of a blessing it is that we can take it every week. I'm still learning, but one of my favorite parts about missionary work is that as we study and learn how to teach others, my own testimony of those things grows as well.
We weren't able to meet with Жанна (Janna) and Пётр (Peter) and their son this week because we were at MLC when we usually meet with them, but the Shepherds, the senior couple here (they are awesome and are kind of like our mission grandparents) met with them instead and talked about temples. They all said it was a great meeting! The only тяжело вещи (hard thing) is that they are going to be out of town for the next three weeks to visit Пётр's parents! But we'll keep in touch with them over WhatsApp. Summer is awesome here but also annoying because everyone is out of town!
We also contacted lots and lots and met some cool people, but if they were interested they were content with what they already had and were comfortable with. Ah it's frustrating sometimes because they have no idea what they are saying no to, but ладно.
Ok kind of running out of time, but this week we planned out our Sumy trip with the senior couple that lives up there and we leave this Thursday. It should be fun! There's apparently like 15 single returning women and 10 married returning women so we'll be busy! Woot!
There's also these two boys, Игорь (Igor) and Глеб (Gleb) and they just got back from a camp and they made Sister Rawlinson and me cute bracelets! It was so sweet!
Sorry for the kind of boring email, not tons of substantial things happened this week but it was still good and next week is going to be nice and busy so that's good :) I'm loving Kharkiv center with its beautiful parks and yummy poppyseed buns and awesome people. It's a good place.
Until next week! Love you all!!
Love,
Sister Kropelnicki
Sunflower fields on the way to Dnipro
One of the cute sisters in our branch
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