This week was kind of crazy but looking back I'm not really sure what happened... Usually the first week of the transfer (six-week periods missions are divided into) is kind of weird but nonetheless, was a solid week. And oh my goodness I love my companion SO much. Sister Egbert is literally the best!!! Some highlights:
From Monday until Friday we were in a trio with Sister Smith while Sister Bevzuk (her trainer) went to Dnipro to pick up her new missionary! So this week was a little different with being in a trio but super fun. We contacted a lot and helped the Shepherds (the senior couple here) get 7 mattresses delivered to all the missionaries around Kharkiv so that was crazy and a little stressful but went off without a hitch! And now we have new mattresses, woot.
We also did lots of planning for the rest of the transfer, and this week we'll be doing exchanges in Poltava and in a few weeks we'll be going to Sumy to work with the sisters there! This transfer is going to fly by!
We also met with a contact we got from the park and it was kind of a crazy meeting... she invited us to her house and she told us it was 20 minutes away but it ended up being outside the city around Novy Doma haha. They had an amazing house and a huge pool, sauna, garden, chickens, 2 cars (one was electric, what?) and in the end I think they were more excited to have people from Americn than to hear about the gospel. We did talk about what we believed and they were really curious as to why we were in Ukraine, and they made us some of the best bbq'd meat I've ever had (complete with their homemade apple juice), and they were really nice people. They wanted us to stay the night and sit in their sauna and swim in their pool, and they were more than a little disappointed that we could only stay for lunch :) We low key think that the dad works for the mafia though because they're loaded but when I asked her what he did for work she was super awkward about it and said she didn't know like 3 times... but it's all good. But anyways, their daughter seemed more interested than they were and she said she would come to english practice so hopefully we can see her again!
This week we also went down to Dnepr for MLC (mission leadership conference) and it was great! We planned out Zone Conference and talked about how to help the other missionaries, and we talked about the members in Donetsk and how we might start to do a pen pals thing with them with our smartphones! That would be so fun!
While we were in Dnepr we missed english practice so we missed when we usually meet with Janna and Peter, so we asked the Shepherds to have a lesson with them and it went super well! They started to go over the baptismal questions with them and it was really helpful to know what they do and don't know as well. We're planning on meeting with them this Friday and hopefully we can continue with that and see how we can help them commit to baptism because they are so ready!
We also had lunch with Niki, a recent convert and we talked about her mission papers that she's hoping to turn in soon. She is so excited and we are so excited for her! She wants to go to South Korea but she said that anywhere that the Lord wants her to go is the place that she needs to go to!
That's about all that happened this week... this coming week we have a lesson with Gleb and Igor and our exchanges in Poltava and Zone Conference, and all the senior couples are coming up to Kharkiv and we're helping them to get around and stuff, so we'll be busy! The best!
That is all for this week! I love you all so much!!
Love,
Sister Kropelnicki
Me with my new companion! Sister Egbert
Mission Leadership Conference
The family we met in the park, who invited us over for dinner
Got some eggs!
Lunch with Niki!
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