This week!
We met with Niki and had lunch and caught up with her for a little. She's still working crazy hours but she is so excited for her mission! She gets her wisdom teeth out in a little and that's one thing she is not looking forward to ;)
We also had exchanges with the Novy Doma sisters and I was with Sister Wilhite in Center. She's still in training but wow she is so fearless and bold, it was a great day! She also really wanted to carve a pumpkin so we found some kind of squash which is the next best thing! Haha. We talked to some people in the park while we were contacting in the evening and they talked about how many "rules" we have in our church (one of them, keep in mind, was that we couldn't get married, hm.) but it did make me start to think about why we do have so many "rules" and it reminded me of a talk I read a little bit ago. The speaker talked about how commandments/rules are evidence of the love that God has for each of us. He knows what will make us eternally happy, and he cares enough about our eternal happiness that he tells us what we need to do. It's a blessing!
Friday was a crazy day because there was a huge youth activity for all of Ukraine basically and also Russia! So we had to get creative with English practice because they were using all the big rooms! But it worked out good in the end, and I got to see Katia who I met on my first day in Ukraine when I was in Dnipro with Sister Larson. It was such a surprise and so awesome!! She says that I'm 100% going to serve in Dnipro someday so we'll see each other again ;)
This week we also did Book of Mormon contacting in the park and it was so good again! People have the best answers, it kind of blows me away! It's cool how just any page of The Book of Mormon testifies of Jesus Christ. After we contacted we did some marathon planning for zone conference and Gleb and Egors baptism (!!!) and it was good to get that stuff done! We asked Egor what his favorite hymn was and he said "Families Can be Together Forever" so we practiced that as a district.
This week we also visited a cute couple in our branch, Sister Lena and Brother Victor. They are so amazing! Their testimonies are so solid, they kind if gave a huge spiritual thought the whole time we met with them, it was great! Our members are the best!!
On Saturday we had Gleb and Egor's baptism!!! It was one of the happiest days of my mission I think, seeing their family all together, laughing and smiling (I don't think I've ever seen Sister Lobanova that happy before!), just made me soooo happy. And sister Egbert and I were the witnesses for their baptisms :) We had so many branch members come to support them (when our branch president took our picture altogether he literally had to open the window, jump outside and take it while standing in the bushes to get everyone in the picture!). It was just a wonderful evening!
On Sunday Gleb and Egor were confirmed and we also had a baby blessing! That was a good sacrament meeting :) Peter also came to church (Janna and Danya couldn't) which was awesome because we found out last week that he's going to Germany for a month for work! He'll be back before Sister Egbert leaves so that's nice :) But it's a bummer. We'll stay in close contact though. He was picked out of like 5,000 applicants for it so he was so happy and we are happy for their cute family!
Side note, we may have also forgotten our keys at the branch after the baptism . . . and had to call a taxi back to the branch possibly later than we should've and ran through the branch to grab our keys from some angelic members that were watching over them for us ;) We ran back to our taxi waiting for us outside the branch and he looked at us like we had just robbed a bank haha he was so confused. But we now have our keys, all is well, and I will never lose keys again!!
That's all for this week! This coming week is going to be craziness but so good! Stay tuned :)
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Katia and me
Gleb and Egor's Baptism!! With their mom and dad, ready to be baptized.
Gleb and Egor with me and Sister Egbert
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