Week 56: Snow in Kharkiv and Miracles

Hello all and happy Monday! This week it SNOWED and it was so beautiful!! I felt like a kid on Christmas, but Sister Chen was not having any of it haha. She's more of a warm weather kind of person. A little bit about her! She was born in Utah but was raised in Taiwan and knows Chinese better than English (but she's still fluent in English...she's amazing). She's been on a mission one transfer more than I have and she is super chill but hard working! I could brag about her more but the Elders want help buying Vishyvanka for their sisters so we're helping them out with that ;)

This week was good! Some of it was spent getting Sister Chen all familiar with the area and the branch and the rest was talking to people outside and meetings and all that jazz. The first week of a new transfer is always kind of weird but we still got lots done :)

We have to plan a service project for our zone conference and so we brainstormed what we could do and ended with some ideas but nothing concrete because we couldn't find phone numbers for places. BUT then like an hour later the elders got a call from a lady saying that years ago our church had done service for their care facility for children in difficult family situations and they were so grateful and would love some help with some other thing! It was such a miracle!! We were so blown away. Leave things up to the Lord and He takes care of things!

We also went over to our branch President's place and had dinner with them and our elders and we showed them The Christ Child and talked about what we can give to Christ. They are just a wonderful family! And Lev, their 5 month old is just the cutest.

We also were able to meet with Peter and Janna and we also watched The Christ Child (here is the link: The Christ Child: A Nativity Story/ #LightTheWorld) with them and they said they felt all warm when they watched it and we talked about the Holy Ghost and how we can have that feeling all the time after baptism. My favorite part of the film is at the end when the wiseman puts the things down in front of Jesus as a little boy and then starts to cry. I feel like he looked at what he had brought and then thought about everything that Christ would do for him and how inadequate his seemingly big sacrifice was. I feel like that on a mission a lot, we give a year and a half or two years to him, but on your mission (or just in life) the more you serve him and learn of him, the more you realize how inadequate everything you could ever do is! And that is so humbling and makes me want to tell people about everything He has ever done for each of us. That's why I love being a missionary!

That is all for this week! I love you all!!

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