Over here last week lots of our time was spent on buses, haha. We went to Rivne (the city I started in a year and a half ago) on
Wednesday for exchanges, So we left Tuesday afternoon and got back Thursday
morning. Luckily it's not a super long bus ride, less than two hours. And the
road is actually pretty nice for most of the way. It's interesting to see how
lots of things have changed since I first got here. Lots of new roads, I just
hope that they're built well enough to last more than a year or two.
In Rivne I had a good exchange with the zone leaders, had a
few lessons with some cool people, and went to McDonald's three times in less
than 48 hours. To be fair two of those times were just for McFlurries.
On Friday we went out to a village to do service for an
older couple in the branch. They really live in the middle of nowhere. We took
a bus for about an hour, then got off and had to walk almost two miles to get
to their tiny house. The man can barely walk with the help of a cane, I have no
idea how they can live so far away from everything or why. It's just super crazy that people live so far away from
everything. I mean they have Internet and running water (kinda) but it's just
sooo far. I don't understand it. Anyway, we helped him move a big pile of wood
he had chopped and then helped fix his fence. He showed us a bunch of pictures
of his son that's serving a mission in England too, which basically just made
me jealous of all the missionaries in the world who all have smart phones, haha.
And then on Sunday church was fun, as always. I had to give
a talk unexpectedly, and then teach lessons during the 2nd and 3rd hour. And
then we had an almost 2-hour branch council afterward. It's nice to be busy and
be needed, but it's super exhausting sometimes.
If they ever finish uploading, I have a bunch of pictures
from our service day and from the walk to that guy's house. Also for last
p-day, we hit up the zoo here in Lutsk. I was actually super impressed. It was
small, but it was landscaped pretty well and pretty clean and there were decent
living quarters for the bigger animals. The only big animals they had were
lions, tigers, and bears, and I'm not sure if they made that reference on
purpose or not. The bears were super active when we were there. The tigers were
inside, but you could walk in and see them. You could literally get a couple
feet away from a tiger with just a metal grate separating you. That was pretty
crazy.
We also went to an American diner for p-day. They had a
pizza burger, which was just a burger but instead of buns they just had two
mini-pizzas. Honestly it was pretty good, don't know why they don't have those
in America. They also had a quesadilla, and it was the only actually kinda ok
Mexican food I've had here.
I had a crazy guy put
his hand on my head and give me a blessing after I told him I couldn't give him
any money at the bus station. Also we were sitting on a bus and a lady turns
around, looks, at our nametags, swears really loudly, then gets off the bus.
The next bus was in like an hour so idk why she inconvenienced herself so much.
Also another lady stopped us on the street and started yelling about how we're
satanists. Lots of fun stuff.
Alec
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