Sounds like y'all had fun with a few days off and I'm glad you were able to enjoy
the snow a little bit. We had no snow forecasted at all for the next little
while, and then we wake up this morning and there's like 7 inches on the
ground, so I know how you feel. We're planning on going sledding later
today.
Over here, we have more or less enough people to fill most of the
callings that we need and we have people teaching all the classes we need. It ends up working out that the teachers have hardly anyone to teach because all
of the people that would be in their class are off teaching lessons somewhere
else, but at least people have callings. We actually had a hard time finding a
calling for a person in the branch last week. I don't know how everyone gets callings in America. I guess a lot more people are needed in primary and youth and stuff
like that.
This week the biggest news was a big Skype call on Saturday. We got a call from the APs telling us that we had to get all of our
missionaries on a Skype call as soon as possible. They didn't tell us what it
was about but they said it took precedence over everything else. So on the call
the mission president announces that the First Presidency decided that late
this spring they're going to merge the L'viv mission into the Kiev mission. There were lots of rumors about this going around for a long time, but this was
the first time they made an official announcement (even though I was pretty sure it was gonna happen). It's not really gonna change too much, except
for the fact that now we'll get to go to Kiev for conferences and go to the
temple and stuff, so that's pretty cool. It's only gonna be the last month
or so of my mission so it's not gonna impact me a whole ton.
Basically they created this mission cause of the
surge in missionaries after the age change, and now that the numbers are going
back to normal, they have to shut down some missions throughout the world. We don't really know how it's gonna work yet, especially with the whole fact
that that is a Russian speaking mission, but I'm sure it'll be
interesting.
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| Alec on a tough service project. |
Probably the craziest thing that happend this past week was
a bit of service we tried to do on Wednesday. We went to help this guy clean out his apartment. He's a friend of a
member of the church and she asked us to go over and help this guy out, so of
course we agreed, seems harmless enough. Never agree to help clean out
someone's apartment without seeing the apartment first. It was literally,
floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall, trash. I've seen some bad apartments and some bad hoarders
before, but nothing like this at all. It was bad. and wayyyy worse than anything I ever saw on that TV show, haha. Anyway we did our best to help this guy out for a few hours. We cleaned out an entire hallway, but when we tried opening other doors and
realized that was only a tiny fraction of the problem, we decided that was
enough. Honestly it was super unsafe with broken glass and old razors all over
the place. We also found out that this guy had stolen the dumpster we had been using from somewhere else, lol, so we were like, yeah it's time to go. So we just decided to dip out. It was kinda sketch from the beginning, but
don't worry I was using super thick winter gloves.
Saturday was a pretty cool
day. We started off doing a mutual activity for the youth in the ward, we made PVC nerf dart guns, and everyone really liked that. Afterward, we went over to
a family for a little FHE, and they made us pizza and borscht (Ukrainian beet
soup.) It was a weird combination, but pizza is always good and borscht is
always good too.
That's about it for this week. I don't really have any pictures, but i'll try to get you some next week.
Alec
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