Sister Snyder and I made a goal to use our talents this week with our
missionary work... so first thing is first, I made banana bread. We took
that to a couple of the members and they have started working with
their friends and are getting ready to introduce missionaries to them.
This week we will be following up with them and are hoping for a lot of
appointments.
The hot water in our apartment
went out for a couple of days... that was fun! Our showers were ice,
finally we went to the sisters one morning to shower because we couldn't
take it anymore, we wanted to be warm while we showered. We called our
landlord, thankfully she was able to come and turn on our water heater. I
have never been so grateful for warm water in my life!
We got to visit the Ternovi
family, a less active family that had wanted to come back to the church.
That was just a tender mercy from the Lord! Sister Snyder and I LOVE
children and teaching, so be with their two young girls was just a
blessing. The dad was at work, and the mom took a phone call for work
that turned into an hour phone call. So, we colored with the girls
trying to keep them quiet and busy. They colored a picture of Sister
Snyder, giving her quite the lovely necklace to go with missionary
ansomble. It was so much fun! We had to keep the two year old away from
the brownies that we made and quiet and it was just a little crazy, but
so much fun!
The little girls are just the
cutest and they love us, we love them too! We taught the little seven
year old girl how to sing "I am a Child of God" in Ukrainian. She loved
it! Next time we are going to sing it with her, she needs to practice
it. It was so cute how excited she was to sing the song with us.
She loved singing so much,
Sister Snyder and I decided to take some of our language study time and
practice singing Primary songs in Ukrainian. I LOVE IT! We are trying to
get a couple of them memorized. The first day we practiced singing it
we went over into our lunch time singing because we loved it so much.
The Elders actually called us and asked what we were doing and we were
like um... singing primary songs, can we help you with something? They
had wanted us to go meet the mother of one of their investigators at
sports day. She was such a nice lady and we were able to give her a Book
of Mormon. Sadly, she doesn't live in the city so meeting with her will
be a little bit more of a challenge. She was such a nice lady though.
English!!!! Oh my goodness,
english was the biggest miracle this week. We had SO many people on
english this week! It really was incredible, so many people have been
coming and loving it! We almost ran out of chairs in our main room
because we had so many people between the two classes. Now, our focus is
getting them to meet with us and talking about the gospel.
On Sunday we had a member of the mission Presidency here in K-town.
That is always just a blessing. He really is the best! Every time he
comes his messages are just exactly what the members need to hear. It
truely is such a miracle and he teaches in such a way that it gets
people so excited to get out and do this work! We were on our way to
church as well this week and that was interesting actually. Our church
is in a stadium and over a bar. There was something going on in the
stadium, there was an announcer and a bunch of people all dressed in
suits in the stands. We were wondering what was going on, why would
people be getting dressed up for a soccer game and where were the
teams?! We walk in and ask the branch president what was happening,
turns out that the Jehovah Witnesses were having a conference in the
stadium.
Only in K-Town would you be
having church above a bar and on the opposite side of a Jehovah's
Witness conference. Yup, that is how we do it here!
I has been such a great week! It is only getting better as well! LOVE YOU ALL! I hope that you have a wonderful week!
LOVE
Sister Shaughnessy
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