Well...it was just another week here in Kyiv! NOT! This past week was my
birthday and because I have the most awesome companion ever we had a lot of fun
this week.
As part of our transfers here in Ukraine we get to go on exchanges in week 4. All of the sisters in the Kyiv zones get to do exchanges for a few days. And Zach, the reason that they're a couple of days instead of 24 hours is because some of our areas take a good 3 hours to get to. So this week I stayed in our area here in Kyiv with Sister Pliha. She's from Latvia and really cool and so much fun! Sister Moore went to her companion, Sister Karpenko who is Ukrainian. So Sister Moore and I we're actually together on our half-way mark. Which was on Thursday!! I can't believe we're 9 months through already.
As part of our transfers here in Ukraine we get to go on exchanges in week 4. All of the sisters in the Kyiv zones get to do exchanges for a few days. And Zach, the reason that they're a couple of days instead of 24 hours is because some of our areas take a good 3 hours to get to. So this week I stayed in our area here in Kyiv with Sister Pliha. She's from Latvia and really cool and so much fun! Sister Moore went to her companion, Sister Karpenko who is Ukrainian. So Sister Moore and I we're actually together on our half-way mark. Which was on Thursday!! I can't believe we're 9 months through already.
I was glad to hear that Zach's talk went well. About 3 months ago,
president told us that the only thing we're allowed to have up on the stand with
us when we give talks are our scriptures. It is so nuts trying to talk in
Ukrainian with nothing to help but your Ukrainian scriptures! It's so
interesting here because in the smaller branches like in Bila, if we messed up
on phrasing or didn't know a word the congregation just shouted it at you. It's
actually kind of funny. I had to give a talk in Bila once and president happened
to show up for that branch. It's a good thing he doesn't understand Ukrainian
very well. He's fluent in Russian.
So Saturday, it was my birthday so we decided to do some fun stuff. We went
for our morning run at 6 like usual, no deviation, president is giving me
monthly goals on my running. Supposedly by the end of this month I should be
able to run 2.5km without stopping. I'm getting there. (just in case you were
wondering, president is a mountain marathon runner, so basically I'm getting my
own boot camp!) Then we came home and Sister Moore made blinchikies...basically
crepes but the Ukrainian version. She also gave me some presents she very
sneakily bought. Then we did our study and went to Puzata Hatas for lunch. It is
this restaurant that you will be going to when you come to Ukraine, all very
Ukrainian food, and a missionary favorite. After pigging out we went and bought
some birthday cake for me. (we had already had a cake earlier that week. We
celebrate mine and Sister Filipovskaya's birthdays at the exchange) I overcame
my natural man, and instead of buying a whole cake we only bought a piece each,
along with a pony candle. So we did missionary work the rest of the day with
some phone calls from other missionaries very loudly and off-key singing happy
birthday, but I was very grateful. Then we returned home for the night and had
our slice of cake with caramel ice cream! And because it's our tradition to go
to a movie on our birthdays, we watched "Mountain of the Lord". That was my
birthday, it was awesome.
That was my really big week, it was super fun. I'm one year older and on
the downward slope of my mission having crossed the half way mark.
Love you all,
Sister Daniel
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