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Dear Family
So wow! what a week! I enjoyed ALL of your letters! its good to hear everyone is doing well! yeah I think its funny/interesting that the missionaries are starting to do that there. We started something similar to that back in Sept. but instead of going to peoples homes we do it on the streets!!! the highest baptizing mission in Eastern Europe right now is the Russia Samara mission and so they have been sharing Ideas with us on how they are better doing the work there/. We have started praying on the "streets, and in their homes, .." anywhere and everywhere! and its brought about HUGE miracles and mighty changes of hearts among the people of Ukraine... and her missionaries :D This week was pretty crazy! we started off here in Kyiv. We did service in a hospital this week! that was nuts! there was 8 of us there and they sent us off by two's to the operation room, Neurology, Emergency room, and somewhere else. Elder Hofeling and I were sent to the Operation deck where we hauled people around in there beds for x-rays and what not! it was really cool! the week flew by and before we knew it, it was Thursday which ment we were on our way to L'viv with President in the van. Almost the equivalent of the Salt lake city to Boise trip but about an hour longer. It was really cool! we got to know president a little better, had a chance to pick his brain, he showed us pictures and video's of his family! it was way cool! I hope that his character can rub off on me before I go home! I really like the qualities that he has developed and the attitude he has towards things! Our zone conference in L'viv was really good! I went on Exchanges with Elder Wilson (Zone leader) you remember him? he is one of the members of my original district in the MTC. He is still really cool and I imagine we will be friends alot longer then just the mission! we found a bunch of people there, its unfortunate you will only be here for a few days! L'viv is definitely worth seeing. We headed back Sat. night on a train, unfortunately but fortunately they had NO tickets... in the regular 2nd class... and we are not allowed to take 3rd class. so guess what we got to do??? :D yep! first class! lol It wasn't anything incredibly awesome but it was a lot nicer! a lot more comfy I felt. However, that is not going to be compared to the trip to Odessa this week which will be by the means of a plane!!! YEAH!!!! I'm way excited for that! by the way Odessa is strictly Russian speaking... so Ukrainian speakers NEVER get to see what is down there... so this is a way fun opportunity! we have 3 zone conferences this week! one on Tues, another on Wednesday, and the last on Friday! and then on Sat we have new missionaries coming in and before i will know it I will be typing to you again. Hey mom don't worry about it yes we will be skyping! I'm surrounded by computers here in the office and the former Assistants from a while ago already set up the skype for it so no worries. No I'm trying not to think of going home, I honestly.... dont want to. I could easily do this for the rest of my life and not have a problem with it! Its way cool! and very... progressing.. if I can even use that word! we have started decorating for Christmas already! that will be really cool to see Christmas in Kyiv for the first time, but come next week we will have my new companion here with us in a threesome and I'll start making plans for our exchanges with the other zones including L'viv! I just hope that I remain useful! what I do now is what I'm told and I do it to the best I am able... however, what I have to do is not all on the brain yet.. so I know the how, but the what is still floating around up there. In fact right now President Klebingat is calling my new companion to tell him he wants him to be the new assistant hahaha poor Elder he has no Idea whats about to hit him haha. So President has told me that I'm probably going to "die" as they say it as an assistant because he wants me to be with Elder Saltmarsh (new comp) as long as possible to give him the downloading experience. I really like president Klebingat and his enthusiasm for the work and his family! Thats so weird! a safari Christmas???! no snow! what is this blasphemy!!! I'm going to call you all to repentance! lol its not Christmas without snow!
We are having big problems right now with the new missionaries because Ukraine made some new laws that are restricting more religions coming into Ukraine. and we have been told that its the Orthodox church (big power here) that presented the bill! :S but in the long run its going to help us out! anyway! so yeah president is a little stressed. He is a big family man aswell so a lot of the time he just says "well that's why I have assistants, so you guys figure it out" anyway! so yeah... we have a huge really fast week this coming week! before I know it Christmas will be here... wow! I love you all! and hope that you enjoy the email. I'll try and get some pictures from Odessa this week...
love you
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Старійшина Джонсон
So wow! what a week! I enjoyed ALL of your letters! its good to hear everyone is doing well! yeah I think its funny/interesting that the missionaries are starting to do that there. We started something similar to that back in Sept. but instead of going to peoples homes we do it on the streets!!! the highest baptizing mission in Eastern Europe right now is the Russia Samara mission and so they have been sharing Ideas with us on how they are better doing the work there/. We have started praying on the "streets, and in their homes, .." anywhere and everywhere! and its brought about HUGE miracles and mighty changes of hearts among the people of Ukraine... and her missionaries :D This week was pretty crazy! we started off here in Kyiv. We did service in a hospital this week! that was nuts! there was 8 of us there and they sent us off by two's to the operation room, Neurology, Emergency room, and somewhere else. Elder Hofeling and I were sent to the Operation deck where we hauled people around in there beds for x-rays and what not! it was really cool! the week flew by and before we knew it, it was Thursday which ment we were on our way to L'viv with President in the van. Almost the equivalent of the Salt lake city to Boise trip but about an hour longer. It was really cool! we got to know president a little better, had a chance to pick his brain, he showed us pictures and video's of his family! it was way cool! I hope that his character can rub off on me before I go home! I really like the qualities that he has developed and the attitude he has towards things! Our zone conference in L'viv was really good! I went on Exchanges with Elder Wilson (Zone leader) you remember him? he is one of the members of my original district in the MTC. He is still really cool and I imagine we will be friends alot longer then just the mission! we found a bunch of people there, its unfortunate you will only be here for a few days! L'viv is definitely worth seeing. We headed back Sat. night on a train, unfortunately but fortunately they had NO tickets... in the regular 2nd class... and we are not allowed to take 3rd class. so guess what we got to do??? :D yep! first class! lol It wasn't anything incredibly awesome but it was a lot nicer! a lot more comfy I felt. However, that is not going to be compared to the trip to Odessa this week which will be by the means of a plane!!! YEAH!!!! I'm way excited for that! by the way Odessa is strictly Russian speaking... so Ukrainian speakers NEVER get to see what is down there... so this is a way fun opportunity! we have 3 zone conferences this week! one on Tues, another on Wednesday, and the last on Friday! and then on Sat we have new missionaries coming in and before i will know it I will be typing to you again. Hey mom don't worry about it yes we will be skyping! I'm surrounded by computers here in the office and the former Assistants from a while ago already set up the skype for it so no worries. No I'm trying not to think of going home, I honestly.... dont want to. I could easily do this for the rest of my life and not have a problem with it! Its way cool! and very... progressing.. if I can even use that word! we have started decorating for Christmas already! that will be really cool to see Christmas in Kyiv for the first time, but come next week we will have my new companion here with us in a threesome and I'll start making plans for our exchanges with the other zones including L'viv! I just hope that I remain useful! what I do now is what I'm told and I do it to the best I am able... however, what I have to do is not all on the brain yet.. so I know the how, but the what is still floating around up there. In fact right now President Klebingat is calling my new companion to tell him he wants him to be the new assistant hahaha poor Elder he has no Idea whats about to hit him haha. So President has told me that I'm probably going to "die" as they say it as an assistant because he wants me to be with Elder Saltmarsh (new comp) as long as possible to give him the downloading experience. I really like president Klebingat and his enthusiasm for the work and his family! Thats so weird! a safari Christmas???! no snow! what is this blasphemy!!! I'm going to call you all to repentance! lol its not Christmas without snow!
We are having big problems right now with the new missionaries because Ukraine made some new laws that are restricting more religions coming into Ukraine. and we have been told that its the Orthodox church (big power here) that presented the bill! :S but in the long run its going to help us out! anyway! so yeah president is a little stressed. He is a big family man aswell so a lot of the time he just says "well that's why I have assistants, so you guys figure it out" anyway! so yeah... we have a huge really fast week this coming week! before I know it Christmas will be here... wow! I love you all! and hope that you enjoy the email. I'll try and get some pictures from Odessa this week...
love you
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Старійшина Джонсон
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