jakemcgrathmission: Last time with the Kid (Week Дев'яносто дев'ять)

Well, this was a super grand week if I may say. Also, I only have one more P-day after today, so that's pretty crazy to think about, so expect one final letter after this one. But yeah, let's jump into this past week. Probably the biggest thing that happened was our trip to L'viv. This past week, we traveled to L'viv to have exchanges with the zone leaders, and guess who I served with? I had the chance to serve with Elder Matua for another day!!! That was super awesome, if you remember, pretty much last year, I had the chance to train him in Rivne and we had a wonderful time together. But it was nice to serve with him and catch up a bit with him, and we had a super good day and had a few lessons. I called up Ihor, (the man that I baptized in L'viv last year) and told him that I was in L'viv and then he asked when we could meet.

So in the afternoon, we headed up to him and spent some good time with him for a bit, we made some chicken dish and then had a good spiritual thought with his entire family. Ihor is doing pretty good, he's just got a few trials and life is hard for him right now, but it was nice to catch up and crack a few jokes with him haha. Probably one of my favorite people here in Ukraine. Anyhow, the rest of the day was good, we ate some lunch at Dominos, and then we decided to try and go and do a finding activity. So we get everything ready, we got stands, books, a table, and then headed out to the a bus to take to center. Once we were in the bus, clouds started to form and it starting POURING, absolutely POURING, so we basically got to center, and then turned right back around and headed back to the church since you can't really contact people outside if it's raining haha, nobody wants to stop. But that was quite the adventure, and we still found things to do to be effective. All in all, life was good with Elder Matua for a day and it was super fun to serve with him. Plus, it's never bad to go to L'viv.

Other than the trip out to L'viv, honestly the week was pretty average. We had some lessons with a few of our investigators and we did studies, contacted, the basic missionary things. This past week, we met with the two brothers again, and the lesson was just as interesting as the first one. We even invited President Danko, the branch president here, and with him, there was just soooo much talking. I don't know if I mentioned it last week but the two brothers just love to talk and so does our Branch President, so we were in the lesson for about an hour and a half, and all we taught was the first two points of the restoration, they just talked for days and days and it was pretty hard to stop. Soooo, that was interesting, plus they said that they don't believe in prophets, so that was the interesting lesson of the week. President Danko talked to them for days too and testified pretty strongly, so that was pretty good. All in all, with our investigators, they're making some progress, some are reading the Book of Mormon, and hopefully as they continue to read the Book, they'll gain that solid testimony of the truth of it.

Anyhow, the week was good, the weather was pretty interesting. Sometimes it was warmer, but most of the time, it was colder and there was a good amount of rain. Pretty much everyday we had a bit of rain, so that was cool. Today for P-day, we ate at a super good restaurant and then went and played some billiards, so that was great. All in all, it was a great week. Have a great week everyone, talk to you all next week!

Старійшина McGrath

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