Hello Hello!‏ E-mail - April 29, 2013

Okay, so I'm sending some pictures of Khmelnitsky so you get an idea of what it looks like here. There are no mountains, it's pretty flat. On the roadtrip here it reminded me a lot of South Dakota. The people here are really cool in a small isolated place kind of way. They just have so much character, they could be their own movie cast, it's really funny.

The branch is small, on average about 20 people every week including the 6 missionaries. Sister Olds is the Young Womens president, and I'm first counselor in the Relief Society, the president has only been a member for a couple of months so we're helping her out a lot. It's so interesting to me that missionaries in our mission can have two different experiences here. I served in Kyiv for so long and understood pretty well how large wards work and the missionaries role there, but there are a lot of missionaries that serve here and they are basically running the branches. It's been really cool to see how the church progresses in an area. Khmelnitsky is tiny and is just at the beginning, then there is Bila Tserkva, also small but building up, it now has 80+ people at church, awesome!! And then the large wards in Kyiv. You really get to see how the Lord prepares people here to grow the church.

So half our investigators are 14 year old girls, apparently the Lord is preparing me for my future career and maybe callings in the Young Womens. I forgot how "young" they are. By "young" I mean frustrating. But they do keep us updated on all the latest American pop culture, which is a bonus.

We did Mormon Helping Hands this week at a deaf kids school. Here in Ukraine they put this paint/pesticide everywhere, they paint in on the curbs, on the bottom half of trees, even on light posts. So we spent a couple of hours painting this white pesticide all over. Then at English this week, we had a party with American food. The elders made really good chili, the other elders made cornbread and we made banana bread and brownies. It's always fun to see people eat American food for the first time.

Love you all! See you in a month.

Zach I want an email from you next week!!!!!

Pictures, Rainbow over the river, and sunset on the river

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Sister Daniel

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