so... well... this week was another fly-by, however, these past two weeks have been the best in my mission. I have never been able to do so much here. Planning has become huge to us, all those things that before the mission I would have thought were meaningless and pointless to plan. well we are planning them now! the city we live in doesn't often see baptisms... however we started this transfer with two. we took our ratio and attached it to the cities.... we have to find 54 brand new investigators to get our goal of 4 baptisms haha wow... or just find 6 amazing investigators. but we broke it down and now exactly what we have to do to get them all. its way cool. last week we traveled to Lutsk (I have almost over half of the mission) and we did a missionary day with the members from Revna and Lutsk. was alot of fun! members recieved a little bit of we do as missionaries. it was really weird though being in a city with no rules again.. I didn't really know any other way than trying to pick a perfectly good person that I didn't need to trick into talking to me. we had LOTS of exchanges this last week. our district leaders last week in the country... I'll attach the pictures.. we ate the biggest pizza in Ukraine. about a meter long with 5 different topings or something like that. it was HUGE! also this week as far as investigators go... have I mentioned I have lost ALOT of respect for ALL other religions.. infact one might say that I have absolutley no respect for them. this week we met with a baptist minister (considering my experience with baptists) I knew exactly what he would say, however this one was slightly different. he was a very facticious man. had read the book of mormon already and was on his second time around. he has not yet found any... facts "" that bring cause for the book of mormon to be false. when he called us he said he wanted us to bring him a D&C in russian. sounded like to me he just wanted to peice at it until he found something that was incoherrent with his "FACTS". we meet with him again tonight. I have found I have lost ALOT of patience for other religions, if they understood the bible like they say they do they would understand that there is something missing. and instead of finding out for themselves what is missing they make up something that sounds good and then go out an preach it. anyway on a higher note. this week right before transfers was awesome! we are taring up this city and loving every minute of it. however if I get transfered I will be going to the other companionship... which the companion staying just let the area die with his little vacation to kiev.. I'm kind of upset about that. we making all preps for kiev so that we dont hurt the area we are leaving. we will be coming back on friday, but thats still 3 days that we wont be here. anywhos... hmm. its cool everything is going well on the home front. thats kind of scary about bryndon, so there still going to let him go on a mish right? and what about Chris!? so everyone is going to the wedding right? I honestly dont care if there parents are being retarted that does not mean we as a family leave taleya hangin..... in the temple of all places!!! :D LOVE YOU ALL! :D so yeah I have found I'm not reporting back to you everything that is happeneing and alot of that has to do with I cant seem to remember all the cool stuff at the end of the week and the starting of this week. I dont know if I told you but a few weeks ago we just finished a lesson and saw this man drunk out of his mind go head first into the ground spliting his head open. the W of W of such an issue here. we dropped an investigator last week for it. we are still working with him but he is not keeping commitments. we have our baptism that is planned to go down on the 11 of Dec. we pray we are still together. we have so much work to do here. and its the holiday season. oh wow the other day right after our personal study I stopped right in the middle of my sentence because I heard this noise coming from outside... elder Hofeling looked at me and asked "is that a bombing rade siren" we bolted out to the balcon where we estabished yes it most deffinently is and we grabbed our camera's and started filming! it was so crazy! we asked around and apperently sometimes they go off just for tests and other times for bad weather... I thought what a sick joke!! two totally opposite things to attach one siren to.... (siren sounding) well boris looks like we have some bad weather today BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! lol I mean seriously, I would say that some bad weather when it starts exploding!. haha anyway oh I started this like web cam week thingy where I just sit infront of the camera telling all of the funny and amazing things that happened during the week! OH and we get to go to the temple this week! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited for that! oh wow now I'm way excited! oh for part of my study this week in the back of the Ukrainian book of mormon are these 17 points of the true church, I wrote them down and translated them. whats awesome is they all have bible refrences! and we used them with this bible bashing orthdadox catholic dude this week... after the lesson he pondered for a bit and said... hmm.. I need to read that book! do you have an extra copy!? he is now a new investigator! with SOO much potential! was funny we got dogged that day and didn't expect him to be the one who was going to help us accomplish our goal! man we have got to expect miricales! by the way how is your missionary work coming? also part of my study is all the stupid questions and statements that have been given to me on the mish so far... anything from baby baptisms and they are born in sin to the God and Jesus being separate! it has helped so much! my companion is ... I've gotta say it probably the best one I ahve had! its awesome! well thats all from me for this week! I promise I'll get better at this emailing thing! I love you all! CHRIS GET CHUR TUCKAS ON A MISSION! your going to regret it! I have a feeling you headed this way! love you all! Bryndon! I love you buddy! and I'm so ......sorry we didn't hang out as much.. that we never had you come with us.. bud I promise when I get back we will do all the hangin out you can handle!!!! capeesh?! mom and dad... I love you.
your eldest
Старіишина Джонсон
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