Oh what a week it has been, full of great experiences that I hope to be able to share with you. So first of all, it keeps getting colder and colder here in L'viv. I think that some of you are getting jealous of the cold because Saudi Arabia and Arizona aren't too cold yet, but let me tell you, I'm kind of jealous of you guys. Even though you can wear many layers when it gets cold, I like the heat so much more haha, I think the only reason is that it's all I've known for the past 19 years of my life. Nevertheless, I wouldn't trade anything for the experiences I'm having here in the amazing country of Ukraine. Ok, the first thing that I want to talk about is when I went out to the села, which means villages in English. We have an investigator who lives out there so we decided that we should visit him to see what his living conditions are like. So on Friday with the AP's and another member we went to go visit this investigator. It was such a great experience for me because my whole time in L'viv I've been in the city and never really got to experience another part of the country. It was also pretty sad because most of the villages here are poor. But hopefully we can come back and do some service for him because I know that service is important and as a missionary it's part of my calling to help the members and investigators of my area. Anyway, another cool part of the trip out was we kind of did a barbecue. We took a massive slab of pork and cooked it up over some coals. It was so good, can never go wrong with a barbecued piece of meat. Really cool experience and I hope I have the opportunity to go out again and serve the people in the villages.
Another really cool part of the week was our game night this week. I've talked a little bit about our English practice that we have here once a week but another big thing that we do as a mission is game night once a week. These events are not just for fun though, even though they really are, but we do try to serve the people and we find a fair amount of investigators through these events. Also, it's just a great time to bond with the people of Ukraine and work on my Ukrainian. Anyway, the leaders of the mission just came up with a new idea on how we could approach game night to try to get more people involved and coming to it. They decided that we would have more of a "fill in the blank night" meaning that every week we need to come up with a theme for the night. Such as like, chili night or Saudi night haha, anything really works that could be done and would be fun. But this week we did a minute to win it night, where we played a bunch of different games and had one minute to complete it. It was such a fun activity and I'm pretty sure I got some good pictures to share of the night. But yeah, it was a success and more people showed up this week, we're hoping that the word spreads on how good it was and we'll get even more people. The more the better, right?
Finally, the last thing I want to share with you is with one of our investigators. He's actually not Ukrainian and is from the Congo and speaks some English. We taught him and few lessons and gave him a Book of Mormon in French for him to read, but the language barrier that we had was not the best. So we actually came up with the idea to try and skype some Elders from france who were fluent in the language so they could teach him in our investigators native tongue. We ended up finding some Elders who are serving in Lyon to skype with us and teach our investigator. And let me tell you, even though I didn't understand pretty much the whole conversation and lesson because it was in French, I still could feel the spirit. I know that my comp and the investigator could feel it as well. It was so present and the lesson went super well. This experience helped further teach me that you don't need to understand to feel the spirit. The spirit will be present if what you're teaching is correct principles and you're living worthy of the gospel. The spirit has been the biggest help on my mission and I know that this church is true and everything I'm doing now is going to help so many people over here in Ukraine. Not everyone listens, but we're giving them the opportunity to hear about the gospel, and that's what's most important. I love serving a mission and I know it's exactly where I need to be right now. Have a great week and Thanksgiving. Love ya all!!
Старійшина McGrath
Proverbs 3: 5-6 I've been thinking a lot about this scripture and we all NEED to trust in the Lord and well will be guided. God wants to help us and when we trust in him, we will be led to salvation!
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| We found this awesome ribs place this week haha, sooo good!! |
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| Out in the Villages having a barbecue |
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| Me holding a nice piece of pork, who needs a plate when you got a fork? |
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| People playing a minute to win it game |
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Me playing one of the games where you have to put tights on your head with a
ball in the tights and have to try and knock down the water bottles. Super fun! |
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| Another picture of beautiful L'viv |
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