There's a pretty cool word in Ukrainian, байдуже. It doesn't
translate super well into English, but the best translation is
"indifferent". It basically just gives a sense of not-caring and a
lack of concern. Anyway, it describes my attitude towards writing these emails
pretty well at this point. So I'll try to make this as good as I can. I still
like getting emails though...
To answer a couple questions:
The new mission president is very nice. President Rizley was
a successful businessman, so he was somewhat serious (not necessarily strict,
but serious) and Pres. Kumferman is more of a Rob Mikkelsen kinda type, very
smiley and friendly. I can't say which kind is better for a mission president,
but I'm happy with the mission presidents I've had.
The new apartment is nice, but it's not too much bigger.
it's definitely much newer though so I'm happy with it.
L'viv has almost a million people. It's a very old European-style city (really the only one like that in Ukraine) so there's no big sky
scrapers or anything. It's a decently big tourist destination (there was a huge
Jehovah's Witness convention with about 30,000 people there last week from all
over the world) and it's definitely one of the hidden gems of Europe. We didn't
really have much time to do anything fun besides go to a couple restaurants and
do a bit of souvenir shopping.
We did eat some of the cherries we picked. They're not super
sweet, honestly, but I guess they were ok. The more of them you eat the more
tolerant you get to the sourness
Last week was pretty busy. Real quick rundown of
the days:
Tuesday: took a 4-hour bus to L'viv in the morning, met two
American girls who have Ukrainian parents who were visiting Ukraine. Pretty
weird to hear people with perfect American accents and Ukrainian accents, but
they were super nice. Got to L'viv, had interviews with the new mission
president, went out to dinner at the rib place I've been to tons of times
before. and then took a bus back to Lutsk and got back around 11:30.
Wednesday: one of our only days in Lutsk, so we decided to
throw a fourth of July party, just like I did last year. We bought some ground
beef, cooked up some burgers, and baked some cookies with brown sugar. Invited
some members and people from English practice, everyone seemed to enjoy it. It was
funny watching our branch president and district president try to play
basketball, cause neither of them really can.
Thursday: had a couple lessons with some investigators, and then took another 4 hour bus back to L'viv to head to mission conference. Went
to McDonald's, saw the new mission president there getting a McFlurry, lol. Did a little bit of souvenir shopping.
Friday: zone conference in L'viv. This time it was for sure
my last one, so I had to say bye to everyone and also bear my final testimony.
pretty sad to say goodbye, but I already did it like a month ago, so not that
sad. Took another 4-hour bus ride back to Lutsk, got home at 11:30 again.
Saturday: the branch had a picnic activity in the park, so
we were in the park for a lot of the day eating food and playing volleyball
with some random people who showed up. I forgot how fun volleyball is when you
play with people who actually kinda know how to play.
Sunday: church. New senior couple that just moved to L'viv
from Kiev came to visit. Good thing they did cause two of our three talks
bailed out and they were able to fill up the time introducing themselves to
everyone.
Today: went to the \Tunnel of Love (again). about an hour
away by bus. (That's a total of 18 hours on buses this week.)
Anyway, it was a good week full of lots of stuff. Hope y'all
have a good one!
Alec
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