Monday, April 2, 2018

Science & Religion, Part 2

Surprise picture recieved by text message from Elder Loveridge's family.


Elder Loveridge and his parents were here for about a week and a half visiting. It was cool to see Elder Loveridge again, he was my first companion when I was in Rivne and he's been home for about 9 months now, so it was cool to catch up. He and his parents came to our English practice and it was a relief to see that even Americans who haven't spent the last 18 months in Ukraine have difficulty explaining obscure English grammar things sometimes, too. They also took us to a nice Ukrainian restaurant the next day (that's where they took the picture they sent you) so that was nice of them. 

Alec puts on another Science Night.
A big part of this week was spent getting ready for activities. First, we did a science activity on Tuesday, and since that's my specialty we had to spend a lot of that day getting ready for that. It took a lot of work actually, but it all actually turned out pretty well. I tried to recreate some demonstrations from Morehead and then we added a few other ones cause it's kind of hard to find liquid nitrogen or potassium chlorate in Ukraine. People actually seemed to really like it. It was a lot easier this time than when I did it in Ivano cause one of our sisters here is a native Ukrainian and she could translate for me, so I wasn't stumbling through it trying to explain these things in Ukrainian. The best part was probably when I set the $20 bill on fire, ha ha.



The other activity we were getting ready for was our big Easter finding activity, which unfortunately hasn't happened yet cause of rain. We finished building the big boards that we're gonna be writing on in downtown and we also got our cool wristbands in. It should be a good activity, we just gotta hope that the weather clears up some time before the Easter season is over. 

"Christ is Risen" wristbands.

 We haven't celebrated Easter at all yet. Just like all the other religious holidays, Easter is celebrated on a different day. Easter here will be this coming weekend. The biggest tradition here is eating a nasty, dry, crusty, giant cupcake called Paskha (literally just means Easter) so that should be fun. We'll be watching General Conference next week, but I did hear about some of those changes. Super crazy about the home teaching/visiting teaching thing. It seems more like a re-branding, but hopefully it'll get people doing better stuff. The craziest announcement though was probably the temple in Russia. I have no idea how they're gonna pull that off, Russia is not exactly super friendly to the church right now. But I guess when your country is invading the country with the next closest temple, they gotta do something. Super curious to find out which city it will be in. 

That's about it for this week. I've got some pictures and videos for you, so have fun, hope you had a good Easter​.



Alec

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