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| Springtime in Ukraine |
This week we spent a
lot of time getting ready for General Conference (cleaning the church, figuring out a
way to actually watch it and download it since we don't have a computer or
anything at the church, and getting snacks and stuff for between sessions). We
ended up using a projector and had a member download it onto her laptop. For the Saturday sessions, we had three people show up in the morning, but two
of them left before the second session. When that one started, the other
missionaries had to leave with the one member that stayed cause they lost their
phone on the bus and had to go all across town to find the person who found it. It ended up working out pretty great cause my companion and I were able to watch
it in English, which was much much better. You might remember the talk by Elder Christofferson about the Seventy, Bruce Porter, that died recently. He was the area
president of the East Europe Area, so all the members here were really
connected to him. Unfortunately, there were no members there to actually hear
that talk.
For the Sunday session, we had a few more people come -- about 10 in total. Almost all of them left before the second session, but
at least a few stuck around. After four hours of straight Ukrainian (with a
little bit of Russian mixed in by the translators) it was super hard to stay
awake and focus. and if I don't focus really hard I can't get mch out of it. So I didn't pick much up from the Sunday sessions at all. Hopefully we'll be able
to find some time to watch them in English at some point.
On Friday we also had a chance to go over to a member for
dinner. All the people I've been
fed by in this city don't actually eat with you. They feed you dinner and
then watch you eat. At least it was
pretty good food. She made soup for the first course, and then fried chicken
and potatoes, and then these donut type things with jam for dinner. It was kind
of awkward cause she didn't eat and I didn't really know how to make
conversation with her, but she talked to the Ukrainian missionary in pure Russian so I didn't feel too bad about not participating cause I didn't really
know what was going on.
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| Alec's attempt at chicken pot pie |
For p-day today we hung out at the other elders'
apartment and relaxed. I made cheeseburgers (they turned out ok, but the ground
beef here isn't quite the same so they weren't quite as tasty as
in America.) I also tried making chicken pot pie last night. The picture I sent
makes it look a lot better than it was. I put dough on the top and bottom, but
the dough on top cooked a lot faster than the dough on the bottom. So it
basically turned into a soupy, doughy, mess. It still tasted ok, just mostly
uncooked.
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| Riverside language study |
I also attached some pictures of some trees we walk past
every day on the way home (see above.) There's lots of these colorful trees all around
town. Also we did our language study by the river one day, so there's a couple
pictures of that. The weather has been super nice lately, so there have been
tons of people outside and it's just much nicer than the winter time in general.
There's a shortage of piano players here. I don't think I've ever actually seen a member that can play the piano, It's pretty much always missionaries doing it, and we don't even have that many missionaries that can play either. Definitely glad I didn't continue with piano though, cause that would mean that I would have had to play piano and I'm glad I don't have to.
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| Alec and his companions in Uzhhorod |
Tomorrow I'll be headed to L'viv for a mission conference,
and then right after that I'll go straight to Ivano-Frankivsk for exchanges
with the zone leaders, so it should be a more exciting week.
Alec
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