jakemcgrathmission: Warm Days and Service (Week Дев'яносто п'ять)

Well, today was an interesting day, since we went out to a village today and did a few other things, I might not have the most time to write today, so I'm pretty sure that this is my only email of the day, so, sorry if I don't write to you, I love you all. But this past week was pretty great. We had a few good things go on. First of all, we went out and did some service twice this past week. The first one was for a member here in Lutsk, we helped in her garden and ended up digging a whole lot. That was some good exercise and reminded me of my concrete days some time ago. Our other service was actually for the local Orthodox Church here in Lutsk. Every day we pass by the Church in order to get to our Church (the True One) and right now they're actually remodeling the front of the church. So most of the time when we pass by they'll try to stop us and tell us that we should help them because we're here as Church Volunteers, and most of the time we can't because we don't have enough time. But finally we showed up to the church and we helped them for about an hour. The face they made when we showed up was priceless too, because they were 100% not expecting it. We ended up just cleaning up after them and doing all the little dirty work that they didn't want to do, that also somehow reminded me of my concrete days haha. But it was good to build relations with them, and the local priest actually came out and talked to us for a bit, so it was nice to build that solid relationship with them.

Anyhow, also this past week we had exchanges here in Lutsk. Since the Elders in Rivne are also part of our district now, they came over here to Lutsk for the day and I had the chance to serve with Elder Thornton for a day. He's a pretty cool Elder thats been on his mission for about 5 months now, so he just finished his training. Also, he's from Australia, so that was even a bit cooler haha, but it was nice to serve with him and he taught me a lot and I hope that I was able to teach him a thing or two over the day that we spent together. On exchanges, we had a good finding activity where we put some questions on the soul on a board and then went out and started to talk to people about that. We had some good people stop and we ended up having solid conversations and people became interested in the Book of Mormon and how that can help us find answers to any questions that we may have.

Well, to finish off a few updates. The crazy guy here in Lutsk that thinks that he's the Messiah, somehow jumped through an open window in the basement and then locked the front door with a rope so that we couldn't get in. Luckily, there is another entrance to the church here, so we opened it and had to kick him out, that was quite the experience. The man is harmless and all, but sometimes he can say or do some very interesting things. Finally, the update on our investigator with a baptismal date, Bohdan, he's still progressing. We had a few more lessons with him and he accepts everything that we say, plus he has already finished the first two books of Nephi, so he's been reading a good amount. Now, just gotta get him to Church this next week, then everything will be fine and dandy. Well, that was it, have a great week all and talk to you later!!

Старійшина McGrath

Jeremiah 1:5 read and ponder these verses, God knew us before this lifeeeeee