Monday 3 July 2017

I'm melting on Canada day in Ukraine!!

Hello, Hello!! ( What Sis. Spicer always says:))

Another great week here in the core of the earth... hahaha jk but seriously it has been a fun but really hot week. Man! you do not want to be in a marshrootka with no windows on a +40 C day though, we were literally dying. aha.
We did some service on Tuesday; we went to Sister Olga's house with some elders to help in  her garden. I watered the plants:) Also tried eating a walnut I found on the ground.. ( in it's shell of course) and almost threw up lol I guess it wasn't ready yet.... She had soo many different plants, flowers and fruit trees, so cool. All the babushki just sell their fruits and veggies on the side walks and some of them are actually soo good.
We also went to a orphanage for handicapped kids on Saturday with some ward members and talked with them, and gave them bracelets. It was really cool, they're amazing! it was pretty sad on one hand but because they were all just so sweet and happy it was really awesome to experience. Super amazing examples to me. Makes me so grateful for what I have. Working arms, legs and body. They still do so much even with their disabilities, some even knew English. 
Yulia ( Got baptized in April )  came too with her little Vika ( who can't walk)  and they are just so amazing too
So another awesome miracle story coming up... 
So flashback to about a month ago Sister Savran and I met this guy in Left bank. We were actually just waiting in the park at the apartment of one of our investigators waiting for her and he came up to us and said he'd want to meet with us cause he had a lot of questions about what we believe etc.. His name is Emmanuel. He's from London, has been studying here for seven years or so. And so then we couldn't get a hold of him until recently and we finally got to meet up with him and we were just walking in a park just getting to know him better when this member from our branch named Pasha who just got back from his mission like a year ago, comes up behind him  is like hey! Emmanuel!  it's been so long!  And I was like what?? How do you guys know each other..?Apparently Pasha taught him his first transfer and he was even going to be baptized then he just fell off the face of the planet, this was the first time he saw him in 3 years! So crazy how that worked out, Emmanuel was like.. did you set this up or something?? I was like hey I had no idea. Anyway so we talked with Emmanuel some more and he said he's at a point where he really just wants to change his life, and be better and know God. He said so many things and asked so many questions where we were just like, yes the gospel can help you with that, we can help you find the truth and purpose you're looking for. Super cool. Also Heavenly Father has blessed us and has continued to bless us with new people to teach the gospel to every week and we are SO grateful, it's so amazing.
Ksenya who runs "the mommy and me English" class ( that's what we call it :)) left on vacation for a month but before she left we gave her a going away gift with a Book of Mormon so hopefully she'll read it.:) She is freaking so nice, she even bought us a couple of books to help us learn Russian, we really wanted to give her the best gift we could :) 

We got hotchi pori ( a super delicious georgian food) 

Also we went to Melrose last p-day and I got the 'bekon burger' lol



As a district we started a Family night in the park where we do giant bubbles and chalk and the kids LOVE the bubbles. We then get to talk with their parents about how much we value families in the church and it went pretty well. 






Happy Canada Day! On my Canada day spent in Ukraine I wore red and white and we also made POUTINE! woo hoo! I felt like I had to, it was an experiment of me making gravy but it worked out! Ukraine style haha. Also we went English contacting on a bridge and I wished everyone a happy Canada day! lol



Anyway.. hope y'all are doing well, 
Love, 
Cectpa Horne

Pics from a couple weeks ago I forgot to send:












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