jakemcgrathmission: Back to Good Old Rivne (Week Дев'яносто шість)

Well, another good week in the books. I swear the weeks are getting faster and faster. I can't believe that I only have five more weeks as a full-time missionary, that's pretty crazy to me. But this past was pretty great if I may say. The biggest thing was probably our trip back to Rivne. Our district actually consists of all four missionaries here in Lutsk and the two elders in Rivne, so since I'm the district leader, I have the wonderful opportunity to have an exchange in Rivne and we went this past week for it. It kind of felt weird to go back to the city that I served in for seven transfers, but it kind of felt like going home haha, I knew everything. It was pretty funny, the apartment is about ten minutes away from the Church, and as we were walking home the day before the exchange, I actually saw two people that I taught in Rivne, so it was nice to talk to them for a few minutes.

All in all though, it was a solid exchange, I had the chance to serve with Elder Howard for a day, he's a pretty good missionary. During the day, we met with three different members and they were all excited to see me, so we spent a good amount of time catching up with them. Man, I love all the members in Rivne, they're just the best. To finish off the exchange there, we did something pretty fun and something I've never done on my mission yet. We went out with a grandma here in Rivne that's a member to a water source and got some water for her. That was fun, we took a bucket and scooped some water for her, then we took it back to her apartment for her, she was very grateful for the help. In short, another good and successful exchange, I learned a lot and I hope that Elder Howard learned a thing or two from me.

Another cool thing this past week was that we went out to a village on Sunday to teach a new investigator. I contacted him outside about a month ago and we were finally able to coordinate a time to meet up, and so Sunday after church, we headed out to a village about 30 minutes away from Lutsk and we finally got to his little village name Kivertsi. His name is Serhi and he's a stud, we met and he fed us some super good food and then we were able to talk about religion for about an hour and a half. We ended up teaching pretty much the entire restoration lesson and gave him a Book of Mormon and now we just gotta hope that he ends up reading it. We're planning on going back next week to go and teach him the Plan of Salvation and that always is a super solid lesson. Plus, he's got a family, so we're hoping in the future that we can go and teach the entire family, that would be ideal. Anyhows, I just love teaching new investigators, there's always just so much potential, now they just got to take that next step and read and pray about the Book of Mormon, then they'll for sure gain that solid testimony of the truth of it.

Well, the rest of the week was successful though, we did a lot of finding, taught some of our other investigators. We finished teaching all the commandments to Bohdan and he keeps on accepting all of it, seems like a pretty golden investigator that really likes reading the Book of Mormon. He still hasn't made it to church though, so that kind of stinks. We're gonna have to push back his baptismal date, but it should be good, he'll get baptized one day. Church this past week was good, I got the chance to lead it again, so that's always an interesting experience. All in all glad to be a missionary and another good week. Can't wait for this next one!

Старійшина McGrath

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