My Thoughts on Ukrainian Food

THe holiday lights of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

It's such a classic missionary idea: go back home and start a restaurant with the food from where you served your mission. I definitely would not want to try that with Ukrainian food. There would be very little success. Something I realized this past week is that Ukrainian food is 100% ok. Nothing special about it all. But. Georgian food is super good. Idk if you can find them in America, I never really looked, but there are Georgian restaurants all over the place here and they're super good. 

That's pretty crazy about Hawaii. Sounds like it was a really bad practical joke.

Over here the biggest thing that happened was transfers this week. My companion left and I got a new one, Elder Fuller. We were companions for my last transfer in Uzhhorod and we were in the MTC together, so we already know each other pretty well. We also have a new sister in our city, straight from the MTC. It's the first time I've really seen a brand new missionary since I was a brand new missionary, so it's very interesting to see and think about how I was back then.

After my old companion left and before my new one came I was with the other elders here for a couple of days in a trio. We met with a cool guy from Ghana who just recently started coming back to church. We got to his place and he invited us to play FIFA with him on his PS4, which we had to decline. He also ordered some super good African rice and chicken, and then we had a good discussion. He's got lots of deep questions. 

On Sunday, we had our first day of 3 hours of church. I forgot how long three hours is. That's sooo much church. It's been a whole year since I've done that. It's super tricky, cause even here in one of the biggest branches in the mission, we have a pretty hard time finding people who can teach all of the different lessons and everything for three hours, so we missionaries usually end up having to do something every week. And then of course there's all the branch presidency stuff after church too, so we pretty much just spend the whole day in the church on Sundays. It's a lot of time, but it's nice having stuff to do.

 We had a super drunk guy show up to our game night and play ping pong for a bit. When I tried getting him to leave, he demanded some liahonas and would't leave until I gave him some. It's actually a fairly common experience.

That's about it for this past week. I attached some pics of some cool arches they set up in downtown for the holidays. Unfortunately, they were a little late and didn't get them set up until after most of the holidays were over.

Hope you had a great week!

Alec