Hello all and happy happy Monday! This ones going to be a little quick because Sister Sowards broke her phone (oops) and we also got a little sick this week so we're going to go sleep for a little:) Because these next few weeks are going to be crazy (more on that next week but president Wirthlin had an impression that Sister Sowards and I should go down to Odessa for zone conference since there aren't STL's there right now and we'll do exchanges with the sisters there after conference! That means that I'm going back to my first area! Never thought that would happen while I was on my mission... needless to say, we are a little excited).
This last week was good! Some highlights:
Friday was a particularly miraculous day. This whole week we were trying to meet with Lena, a women we met on the street last Sunday who was really interested in our message and especially the Book of Mormon. But every time we tried, she ended up getting off work too late and wasn't able to meet. But Friday she was able to! We met outside on the sidewalk and she had brought her 10 year old daughter! Her name is Nastia and she was listening to the whole lesson as well, it was so cool. We taught the restoration and it was a really spiritual lesson and Lena could feel it. She was so focused on what we were saying and she talked about how she was on a search for a church and she had been to many churches but never felt like they had everything. And then she said that she felt different here in our building sitting with us and we talked about the Holy Ghost and what his role is and how we can have him with us when we are worthy after baptism. She loved the lesson and even though they needed to go to catch their bus home, you could tell they didn't really want to leave. She said that she would pray about the Book of Mormon and she asked us about church and when it was and if she could come and then on Sunday she came! She really liked sacrament and the speakers spoke on really inspired topics--it was just what she needed. Anton, a recent convert spoke about how he had found the church and how he had felt like there was a piece of truth in each church he went to, but never a fullness. It was crazy because that is almost exactly what Lena had told us a few days before. And then at the end of sacrament meeting, I had been sitting at the piano and before I could get to the back of the room, our relief society president, Elena, was already sitting next to Lena and was introducing herself to her! It was SO good! And later Elena told us that she could help us with lessons! Perfect member-missionary work woot!
We also had MLC this week and so I got to see my old Kharkiv district! It was weird to be the one waiting for them to get to the mission office in order to start breakfast... We planned for the coming year and set some goals for the mission and ate some good food. It was a solid day.
Sister Sowards and I also discovered a fun way to contact--tram contacting! After our lesson with Lena on Friday, we were sitting on the tram and at one stop a bunch of students got on and two sat across from Sister Sowards and I and we started to talk to them. One was from India and the other was from Nigeria. They were so nice and we did a little resto lesson with them and they were really interested. Mini, the girl from India told me as we were getting off at our stop that the minute first got on the tram and looked at us she felt the love of God! And when we told her that we were missionaries she was so blown away!
Speed Round:
-Contacted with some of our elders in a park with a bunch of old rockets in it (cool, also our district is huge! We have 6 elders! usually there's just 2!) and met some cool people, also met a babushka who told me to go home because Ukraine doesn't need God... I told her I would in 4 months and that seemed to make her feel better haha. But you gotta love babushka's--for the most part they are angels.
-Shout out to the AP's for giving us their yummy food that Sister Wirthlin gave them for Elder Williams AP orientation dinner thingy with President:) Strawberry shortcake!
-Did some weird trackting for a possibly deceased relative of a member who lives by Kiev and we saw lots of miracles that helped us finally find her door including a random food delivery man who somehow knew the apartment code and let us in without knowing it. Crazy story.
-We finally got the last of the stuff from years and years of sisters out of our apartment! It seems so much bigger now!
-Planned for zone conference this week with the ap's and we figured out that Elder Baggely is Joseph Smith in the mural at the MTC. Wut, our minds are still blown.
That is it for this week! I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Kropelnicki
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