A Baptism & A Birthday

Sorry, this week I don't have a ton of time, but that's ok, not a ton happened anyway! We went to Ternopil on Tuesday for English practice there. Right before English practice we had a lesson with a friend of the only member there, an African named Kaiser. He wants to get baptized, so that's neat. He's a real cool guy. That branch is gonna be just full of Africans soon. 

We'll also be having a baptism here in Khlmentisty on Saturday. Unfortunately, she'll get baptized and then pretty quickly move to Kiev to be closer to her boyfriend (the missionary who first started teaching here lol,) but that's also pretty neat. So some of our time was spent looking for places to do this baptism. We finally found a sauna that has a little swimming pool. Unfortunately, it was kind of deep and the girl getting baptized is scared of water, ha ha, so we had to ask them to drain the pool a little bit (and we'll probably have to have them take down some of the inappropriate pictures on the wall) but everything should turn out ok. So it should be a pretty good week. 

Other than that, we did a big English activity where we basically just stood out on the street and handed out cards advertising our English practice. It was actually pretty successful and we had some new people at English that night. There were tons of people on the street that day (Friday) cause it was the first day of school here in Ukraine. 

I attached a bunch more pictures from that Independence Day activity we had last week and some videos, I didn't take the videos and I haven't watched them lol so I hope they're good videos.

There's also a pic of the Kraft mac and cheese we made. 

And one of a t-shirt we found in a second hand store here. No idea how that made it here to Ukraine, but everyone thought it was pretty funny. 

And a pic from a birthday video we made for one of the senior missionaries here (at top.)

Glad y'all got the package, It got there pretty quick then. Sorry that it was packed in a grocery bag, the lady at the post office wouldn't let me pack my own package, and she just put the grocery bag in the box with all the candy. It was super weird. She thought I was sending drugs or something. It's a good bit cheaper to send from Ukraine to America than the other way around though. Hope y'all enjoyed the candy!

OK that's really all I got for you this week, sorry! Hope y'all had fun in New York and hope everything is going well!

Alec