This week was great and lots of great stuff happened. Some highlights:
On Tuesday I got to go HOME--as in back to my last area, Novy Doma (which means new homes in Russian haha) for an exchange with Sister Bevziuk!!!! It was so fun and I also got to see Nastia who was baptized last month and we talked about the youth conference that she just got back from (she absolutely loved it) and it was so good to see her smiling face. I love that girl. I also got to go to English practice there, and I saw Vika and Veronica and their Mom again and they grabbed me and told me that I couldn't go back to Kharkiv Center haha. And Sister Bevziuk! It was like the good ol' times. Just a good day.
On Wednesday we met with Nastia (the one here in Kharkiv) and talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's so awesome, usually with lessons we have to be the ones to stop the small talk and start the lesson, but she always is the one that says "Ok, I really want to learn more about ___ today. What can you tell me?" It's so cool! It was a great lesson and we talked about baptism pretty directly and she even took out her phone to look at when she could be baptized! The only thing is in a week she's going to Donetsk for 10 days so we're really hoping to set a date before she goes. We set up another meeting with her for this Wednesday and so hopefully we will set a date with her!
On Saturday we received permission from our mission president to go outside of Kharkiv and visit one of our members, Sister Svetlana, whose husband passed away a little while ago and who hasn't been visited by the missionaries for a while. We took Sister Shepherd with us as well, and took an hour-long uber to the village where she lives. It was waaay out in the middle of nowhere but was so cool! We also scared someone's goat away from their front yard as we were finding her home--still feel bad about that... But we had a great time with Sister Svetlana and we also met her daughter who is pregnant with her second child and is also a member but hasn't been active (and up until this point we didn't know her at all) and she sat and talked with us too! It was great and they were so happy to have us all over. The coolest part was the next day, Sunday, they all came to church! Sister Rawlinson and I could not believe it, it was a miracle and so awesome!
Today I also got my hair cut woohoo. Wasn't as stressful as I thought it would be seeing as it was in Russian and my hairdresser didn't speak any English haha but she was SO nice and so impressed with what we are doing here and how we are learning Russian. People are cool.
That is about it, the second counselor in our branch presidency is moving to Madrid to study which is awesome for him but sad for the rest if us! He's a rock in our branch and we'll all really miss him. The branch here in Center is like a big family--it's so cool.
That's all for this week! We're cleaning out the shelf that fell on me last month so we're gonna do that now :) I love you all so much!! Have a wonderful week.
С любовью,
Сестра Кропельники
New Haircut!
Vika and Veronika
Sister Rawlinson and me in one of my favorite parks in Kharkiv
We bought honey from these sweet people (who also offered us their mead ;)
Soup in edible cups!
We went inside a Russian orthodox church
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