Goodbye, Sisters

This past week was a pretty interesting one. It was our sisters' last week before they went home (we put them on a train to L'viv at 6 am this morning) so we were trying to make it a good one. We wanted to do some kind of big activity on the street, so what we came up with was making one of those fishing booths where you put a fishing line over a bed sheet or something and someone on the other side of the bed sheet attaches candy to it and then you catch some candy. The idea is that we would attach candy, a pass-along card, and then a little fish that kids could color-in and then attach to the board. While the kids were doing that we would be talking with the parents and giving them Family: Proclamations and stuff like that. 

Translated: "Come follow men and I will make you fishers of men."

So we spent all of Saturday pretty much making these boards. It took a heck of a long time, honestly. We used the boards that we made for our Easter activity a couple months ago, so all we had to do was cover them with blue paper and decorate them. It didn't seem like it would take a long time, but it sure did. But they actually looked decent so it was worth the time, at least in my opinion. 

Unfortunately, the weather was not quite cooperating. It's been raining pretty consistently and it's been pretty chilly. Rain would totally ruin the boards we made and the success of the activity was very much dependent on people actually being in the park. It looked like there might have been a patch of clear weather, so Sunday afternoon we got all the stuff ready and left the church, But just as we were walking out it started to rain. So, obviously, we weren't meant to do it this weekend, so we had to move it back to another time. Unforunately, now my companionship is the only one here, so it'll be much more difficult to do it with only two people. Oh well, it'll work out some how, we're not gonna let all that preparation go to waste.

On Tuesday for our activity night we did a "surprise talent show." Basically people showed up and we gave them a random talent (say the alphabet backwards, juggle, play the piano) and they had to pretend that they could do this thing. It was pretty fun. I had to walk across the room with 5 books on my head, super easy. 

Also on Wednesday (and Thursday, cause we didn't finish on Wednesday) we went out to visit a member who needed help picking the cherries off of her cherry tree. So we spent a few hours up in the tree picking cherries. they weren't even all that good, I'm not sure what one person can do with so many cherries.

We also went to the castle (again) last week for the sisters' last P-day in Ukraine. It was just as cool as it was last the three times, but this time a thunderstorm started right as we got on top of the tower, so that was exciting.

But yeah now there's only gonna be one companionship here in Lutsk. Kinda a bummer, cause everything is always more fun with more people, but it's only a month or so, so I'm not too worried about it. 

That's about it from this past week, I'll try to attach some more pics from this past week later if they ever upload, the internet is super slow here. 

Hope everything is going ok there, Y'all are all in my prayers.

Alec​