I
am sure you are curious, they do have mothers day here, the same as in
America, however, it is not a big deal. In fact, not one word was
mentioned about it at all yesterday. I pretty much even forgot that it
was here. They do have Women's Day, which was celebrated a few months
ago and that is definately a bigger deal than mothers day here.
This week has been a little
crazy, I feel like I just wrote to all of you, because I pretty much
did, but from now on our P-days will all be on Monday's until something
else happens and then our schedules get messed around again.
It has been quite the week.
Last Wednesday when we left internet we also left our phone here. That
was adventure, my companion left it next to her computer and it was gone
by the time that we returned. So, we have been going without a phone
for the last couple of days and that makes missionary work pretty hard
to do actually. There were just so many little things that made it
really hard to get things done, or it took us a little bit longer to do
things because of our lack of ability to communicate with the other
missionaries. It all turned out okay though.
When we had to go back to the
internet cafe we got to watch the security footage of our computers and
everything, that was so crazy! It was quite weird to watch and we had
this nice little gentleman offer to call the police for us, it was just a
phone, so we held off on that. It was just a crazy thing, because we
couldn't even tell anyone that we had lost the phone itself and if we
don't text in at night then the Elders have to come find us, so that
would have been kind of a crazy deal. Luckily, we found them at the
church and let them know what had happened.
So, we have had no life line
all week and have just been doing our own thing in our own little area,
totally cut off from everyone. It drove me crazy. You know, it was a
good test of patience. We survived though. It actually turned out to be
kind of fun, we found a lot of new areas in the city that we had never
been to as we were out on the streets a lot because we didn't have any
phone to set up appointments with members. We found some very nice
people to talk to, and some very beautiful parts of the city. The
weather here is warming up and it is SO green here around the city and
there are so many pretty, green parks that are in this city.
At one point we ran an errand
to get some keys copied for the Elders because we didn't have any
lessons. So we took the keys, knowing only the general direction of
where we needed to go was, and just talked to people on the way there,
asking for help to find the store that we needed. It actually turned out
to be a huge miracle. We ran into a member's mother that we had wanted
to start working with in the coming week. That was so cool! We were able
to just talk to her and she helped us find where we needed to go to get
the keys copied. It was so great! Hopefully we will be able to meet
with them tonight.
Yesterday at church we had a
good day. All the new missionaries got up and bore their testimonies. We
actually gained a new Elder this week as well, I cannot remember his
name, but he is the most awkward person in the world and I LOVE IT!!!!
It is so funny, he just thrives on making things awkward and it is
honestly the funniest thing ever. We met him for the first time on
Saturday when the Elders came in from L'viv, picking him up, and getting
our new phone for us. He is Ukrainian, but speaks english, and has
served in Russia, then in Kiev and now is here in the L'viv mission. He
is originally from Kiev and is pretty nice, from the 3 times I have seen
him.
So this week, Sister Snyder
and I decided that we were going to go on a "Diet," which really just
means that we were going to not eat as much chocolate and then maybe eat
a little healthier. It was going so good, we felt better, we have been
out running, just all these great things were happening with it. If we
really felt like we needed chocolate then we would get it, but if it
wasn't a good reason and just a want then we would just get busy with
something else and control our impulsese. THEN, last night happened. Oh
my goodness, I think that it is safe to say "Hi, I am Sister Shaughnessy
and I have an addiction to chocolate." Because we came home from MCM,
made the phone calls that we needed to and then we NEEDED chocolate. We
were dying, but we had cleaned it all out from our house. We literally
had NO chocolate at all. So, we go through everything, cupboards and
all, then we found cocoa. Okay, so we could make brownies. However, we
only had a cup of flour and the recipe calls for 2 cups, so yeah.... you
guessed it. We just halved the recipe and literally made the smallest
pan of brownies you had ever seen in your life. We didn't care tho, we
wanted brownies so badly, it was ridiculous. Am I ashamed of this? No.
Nope, not at all. We were laughing the entire time, and saying how much
of an addiction that we had. It was SO funny! Just saying, the things we
do as missionaries.
This week has truly been a
great learning experience and I am so excited for this next week, I
think that I will appreciate the phone all the more! As a District this
transfer our theme is "To see miracles." This week I know that they are
going to happen as well! I have been studied miracles this week in the
scriptures and it is just amazing how many miracles that are written are
linked to the ultimate miracle, that of Christ and His resurrection. It
is just incredible! How can you not love this gospel?!
I hope that you all have a great week and look for miracles!!!
With love,
Sister Shaughnessy
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