This week was good! We had exchanges with the Sumy sisters and Sister Deheart and I served with Sister Pope and it was really great. We went to an outdoor market where a family in our branch has a shop and we stopped by and the father was there (he's a returning member) and we talked for a little and then contacted and did studies. Being a sister training leader is so fun, and the sisters in our zone are the best! Also, side note but in less than two weeks we are getting 6 new sisters!!! That's soooo many because we only have like 18 sisters in our mission! So we are excited :)
We also were able to meet with Peter and Danya this week (Janna was sick :( and we talked about prophets and Peter was just firing off these questions in rapid succession which was cool because he was so interested but also hard sometimes because it can go a little off topic. But it was good, and a crazy nother thing, yesterday when we were getting lunch with a member, we saw Peter while we were eating! He was at the same restaurant and we talked for a little and man he is just a solid, good person. If anyone has any advice on how to help an "eternal investigator family" I would love any thoughts (seriously, I spend time each week writin' these dang letters, if you have any words of advice or something, send em my way pls, ya'll gotta pay up ;)
We also had English practice and one of our apartment neighbors came and he brought his daughter! It was so cool! And we took them on a tour of our building afterwards and they gave us their number and said we could stop by and share a message! It was awesome!
We also tried a new contacting idea in the park with the elders and it was awesome! We wrote questions that people typically have about life on our whiteboard and then where in the Book of Mormon it answers that question. It was really successful and even though it was raining people would stop and participate. Also, holidays are the best in Kharkiv because there are people from all over that come for New Years! We met a bunch of people from Spain, and a group of friends from Slovenia--we saw them not once, but twice! On two separate days! It was so funny and they were really cool. The first time we met them we talked a little bit about our church but they were in a hurry but the second time we talked for a while and they told us that they had seen two boys with nametags like ours in Slovenia when they were younger and we gave them our card with the church website on it and they said that "we just have this warm, positive energy about us" and they are curious about why! It was cool.
We also met with Louda and her mom and man I just love Louda. She is so good. They gave us compote and we talked about Christmas and Christ and what Christmas means to them, and I never wanted to leave!
We also went to a Christmas concert for our cultural activity that we can do once a transfer and it was definitely one that I will never forget... we went in thinking that it would be a symphony type concert because that's what was advertised. And it was, at the beginning. Until they added some pyrotechnics and Ed Sheeran (?) It was an experience.
Today we got sushi with the elders (yuuum) and did a white elephant (Elder Payne gave me a reusable АТБ bag...5 points to Elder Payne). It was fun.
It's so weird to me that a whole year ago I was at the MTC, thinking that I was never going to get to Ukraine. This year has been so many good things, and I am so grateful for everything and everyone that has been a part of this past year. Have a wonderful wonderful New Year! Make some goals, but think more about what you can do each week, from Sunday to Sunday, to be a little better than who you were the week before. I am so grateful that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can become more than we were, no matter what happened behind us.
Have a wonderful week!
С любовью,
Сестра Кропельники
Visiting sister Ludmila
Mid transfer transfers!
Visiting Sister Sveta
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