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| Alec says goodbye to the family he baptized |
We had a pretty busy week. The big news is that I'm getting transferred to a different city. I've been in Uzhhorod for a little
over 4 months now and on Wednesday I'll be heading to Khmelnitskiy. I'll be going from one of the more beautiful
cities in the mission to one not as beautiful, and from the very smallest branch in the
mission to . . . the second smallest branch in the mission. So I'm sure it'll be
very different there, but also probably very similar. The cool thing will be that
Ternopil, another city a couple hours (by train) from Khmelnitskiy just got
missionaries in it for the first time last transfer. Right now we don't have
permission to live there or proselyte there, but they've started doing English
practices there to get things started. So if I understand right, I'll be going
to Ternopil a couple times a week to do English practice and other stuff there. Should make things pretty interesting. And it'll be cool to be there right at
the start of this new city being opened.
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| Good crowd for Pioneer Day in L'viv |
Other than that was the big Pioneer Day activity in L'viv. I think I told you a bit about it last week. Overall, it was a pretty big
success. There were probably about 300 people there, and we had 21 people come
from Uzhhorod, which is pretty good for only having like 6 active members. Getting there and getting back was a bit of an ordeal though. We spent a LOT of
time last week going back and forth from the train station trying to get the
tickets ordered. Every single time there was something wrong on the forms or
they weren't ready yet or the one cashier that we needed was closed. I think we
went to the train station on six consecutive days. Luckily we had our superstar
member helping us out with everything, so it wasn't too hard, just
time-consuming. We ended up getting all the tickets ready -- members going to L'viv through the night and us on an earlier, much less comfortable train Friday night, and all of us on the less-comfortable train on the way back by Wednesday.
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| The less comfortable trains of Ukraine |
Unfortunately, the activity went a little long, so we had to
hustle to make it to the train station in time. None of us really knew L'viv
very well, but we managed to find a bus that took us pretty close. Somehow by
some miracle we all made it on the train with about two minutes to spare. I was
definitely stressing about it pretty hard, it would have been super bad if all
of our members had gotten stranded in L'viv for the night. Other than that and
a couple people yelling at us cause their free train from L'viv didn't have
comfy enough seats, everything seemed to go pretty well.
Oh there was also a watermelon eating contest at the
activity. First they did one for members, and then for missionaries. There were
definitely a few white shirts sacrificed in the process.
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| Watermelon-eating contest at Pioneer Day |
That was a big part of the week, Most of the rest of our
time was spent getting ready for that. I have some pictures with some members
(the one with the family outside at the top is our recent converts) and an investigator
(the one with the illuminati shirt is the guy named Alec) since this is my last
week.
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| Alec & Alec |
For p-day today we went out to a park and played kan jam with the kan jam
set we made for our 4th of July activity, So there's a ton of pics/videos of
that.
There's also some pics of some little statues and other things around Uzhhorod.
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| Statue in Uzhhorod |
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| Alec saves some memories of Uzhhorod before he leaves |
Oh and some pics of lunch today at the famous Varenikiy (basically
pierogi) place here in Uzhhorod. I had to go since it's my last chance.
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| Last chance for Uzhhorod pierogi's |
Good
luck sorting out all the pictures.
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| Goodbye Uzhhorod |
Hope y'all have a good week!
Alec
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