Glad you liked all the pictures last week, cause I don't
have any for you this week.
But, yeah, the ribs were pretty sweet. We went back again when
we were in L'viv for MLC on Wednesday, but they were super super busy so they
were kinda skimpy on the ribs, so we didn't get quite what we paid for the
second time. But, it was stil pretty good.
I did get the package, but it was really just super lucky
that I happened to be in L'viv this past week. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten
it until the very end of January. Thank you very much, btw. lots of cool stuff. The little metal puzzle things are always pretty fun. I was never able to solve
the first one you sent me, so I was a little concerned about getting another
one that was supposed to be even harder. It was definitely a little easier
though, cause I've already been able to figure it out. Now I just gotta work on
the other one.
It is kinda unfortuante though that y'all sent me so much
cold weather stuff lol. According to the forecast, it's only supposed to dip
below freezing during the day a couple times for the entire rest of the winter. That's ok. I'm sure some missionary next winter will appreciate the dozens of
hand warmers. That's too bad y'all haven't received my package. According to
the tracker, it left Kiev in the middle of December, so I guess it got stuck
somewhere along the way. That would be super unfortunate if it never makes it.
But, thank you for the package, I appreciate it. That
being said, I think I'm pretty well stocked on peanut butter and taco seasoning
and stuff for the last six or so months, So I probably don't need any more big
packages. Just put the $70 towards a new iphone or something...jk. But yeah I
think I'll be set, thank you!
As for stuff over here, we were in L'viv on Wednesday for MLC. Usually we have to take a
train at 3 in the morning and then come back on another train later that same
afternoon, but the new senior couple hooked it up (probably cause they don't
know what they're doing yet) and we got to go up the night before on a nice
train and take a nice train back Wednesday night. So we got a normal amount of
sleep and we got to chill in L'viv for a bit.
Other than that all we really did was make paper airplanes. We're trying to be more creative with our activities to get more people
interested so we had a paper airplane night on Friday night, and then we did it
again for a mutual activity (something we're trying to get started here) with
the youth on Saturday. It was moderately ok, not a ton of people came cause of
the holidays and everything (yesterday was Ukrainian Christmas.)
The only other exciting thing was Thursday night. We were
invited by some friends from English practice to go over to their apartment and
make some real Ukrainian borscht (the famous Ukrainian beet soup.) I think I told you about the time we went weight-lifting with them when I first got to Ivano. Anyway I wasn't sure what to expect when we went over. They told us they
had a really small apartment and stuff. Turns out it was definitely the nicest
apartment I've ever been to in Ukraine (besides our mission president's.) He
works as like a 3D graphic designer or something like that, so I guess he makes
pretty good money. It's just interesting to realize that there actually are
people here in Ukraine who have a decent amount of money. It's just most of the
people we work with are not those people. Anyway, the borscht we made was pretty
good.
Sunday was full of doing stuff for
the branch. They usually ask the missionaries to do all this kind of stuff, anyway, but now that I'm in the branch presidency, it just means that they ask
me specifically to do all of the stuff. So, Sundays after church are usually
pretty busy.
Hope y'all have a good week and you stay warm. Let
me know if I need to send some of those hand warmers back!
Alec
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