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| Missionary work is like pulling the sword from the stone - it requires both strength and faith |
I don't have a new companion, yet. We're just gonna stay in a
tri-panionship for the next 4 weeks most likely. We all stay in the same
apartment cause there's only three of us. They are Elder Fuller (he came out
the same as me) from Utah and Elder Cook (he came out a few months after) from California. They're both pretty cool so everything is going well.
Last week was a pretty busy one actually. On top of getting
my new companions adjusted to the new town, we had a couple visitors we had to
prepare for. First, President Rizley (along with his visiting daughter, her
husband, and their twin baby girls) came down for Tuesday and Wednesday. Whenever he comes here we pretty much plan out all of his time, so we
set up interviews with him with a few members on Tuesday, a couple of which
want to go out on missions in the next few months. We didn't really have
anything planned for the evening, which turned out to work out just fine
because he wanted to spend some time with his family.
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| A street in Uzhhorod |
So that was Tuesday, but I pretty much missed all of that. That same day a member from Ivano-Frankivsk, who works for the
church doing registration and stuff, came down here to officially get the
church registered here in Uzhhorod. To do that, he had to collect signatures
from 9 different people, which is more than we have active members. So, we
had to go find some random people, too. He doesn't know Uzhhorod at all,
so one of us had to go on "exchanges" with him so there could be
missionaries with President Rizley translating and stuff like that. Well, since
I'm the only one that knows Uzhhorod, I was out with him all day running around
trying to get signatures. It was actually pretty sweet. He's a really cool guy
and he speaks clean Ukrainian, so he's easy to understand.
We did have a bit of trouble with some of the paperwork,
though. After 2-3 hours, when we had already gotten half of the signatures we
needed, we were at a notary getting some stuff notarized and she told us that
one of the names was spelled wrong. This person has a Hungarian name, so when
they transliterated it they spelled it super weird)
which meant we had to reprint the document...and get all of the signatures
again. After a couple more mistakes and reprinting it a couple more times, we
finally got it right. We ended up pretty much just hiring a taxi to take us all
around the city so we would have enough time to meet all these people--including
meeting one guy at the hospital, finding some lady in a grocery store, and
hunting down a couple inactive members. But after all that we finally got it
done. It was actually a lot of fun and it was nice being able to use my
knowledge of Uzhhorod.
So, that was Tuesday. On Wednesday, president had another
meeting with the new convert family. After that he wanted to actually go to
visit them in their village. I'll take a picture next time I go there, but it's
a very poor little village, and he was kind of blown away with it. He did say
that it was a "spiritual highlight of the year" for him, so that was
cool. Right after that we had to run back to Uzhhorod to take some welfare
money to the guy in the hospital. Apparently he needed an MRI--it cost a little
over $12. And that was about it for a very exhausting couple of days.
We've been playing
basketball a lot trying to meet new people, and we met a kid that knows English pretty well, so that was cool. He told us he could destroy us in
monopoly, so we might have to buy that game to see.
I don't have a ton of pictures this week, but a highlight of
the week was definitely what Kostya (the little 8 year old kid we baptized a
few weeks ago) wore to church this week. I'm really very confused about where
this shirt came from, but there is literally only one thing on the entire shirt
that's correct, and that's North Carolina.
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| This 2008 NCAA Final Four t-shirt Alec saw in Ukraine has everything wrong except North Carolina. (Florida and Ohio State not only didn't make the Final Four that year, they weren't even in the tournament. It was also held in San Antonio that year, and not Atlanta. |
Hope y'all have a great week!
Alec
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