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| Elder Martschenko doing yoga in the park |
In terms of
active members, we had maybe six or seven before the three baptisms last week, so it's a significant
increase. Now we actually have to find a primary teacher. And they came to church on Sunday. I was super surprised, too, cause the mom called
me that morning and said someone was sick and so they couldn't make it, but then
they showed up a few minutes late (or at least the mom and the daughter--the son
is the one that's sick.) So I was super impressed they made the trip out, even
with a sick son at home. The mission president is coming here this week, and
they should be meeting with him, so that'll help them a bit too.
As for my new
companion---that's a bit of a funny story. I received my train tickets last
Monday to get ready to head to L'viv to pick up my new companion and go through
the two-day new missionary orientation thing. So the plan was to leave Tuesday
afternoon (on a six hour, private coupe all alone on the way to L'viv---that's
the dream.) A couple hours before the train was supposed to leave, I got a call
saying my companion had just received his visa to Germany, so he would not be
coming to this mission. They told me not to take the train and to just stay in Uzhhorod for the time being.
I was pretty
disappointed I wasn't going to get to go to L'viv, but I was more disappointed
in the fact that since all the other missionaries were being transferred and no
one would be in Uzhhorod, it was gonna work out that I would ave to take a six
hour, metal seat, train to L'viv at five o'clock Thursday morning, wait in L'viv for a couple hours, and then take another six hour, metal seat train back
to Uzhhorod, getting in at midnight with the new people coming to Uzhhorod.
Fortunately, it
didn't work out like that. They called back about ten minutes later, and told
me just to take the train to L'viv, hang out during the orientation thing (I had a small part to present) and then just come back with the other two that
were coming to Uzhhorod Thursday evening. so everything worked out for the best
and I still got my six hour train ride to myself and I still got to go to L'viv. I'm kinda bummed I didn't get to train this guy, I'm sure it would ave
helped my Ukrainian a lot, but that's ok. Now I'm in a tri-panionship with a
couple other missionaries here, so I've basically just been showing them around Uzhhorod, cause I could get transferred any time.
I attached a few
pics/videos, one of me when I paid 30 hryven to rent a hoverboard for 10
minutes . . .
some of my private coupe on the train . . .
some of me being in the train
station in K'viv alone at 11:00 at night (after that I had to go hire a taxi
to drive me through the city) . . .
Some of me doing yoga at a park in L'viv . . .
and
then one of the other people who served in Uzhhorod the last transfer that are
now gone . . .
Anyway, glad to
hear y'all survived trek and hope you had a great week!
Alec
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