Living in a green house and eating ostrich egg?

Ok before anything I just got to say... if Taylor Swift came out with a new album and no one told me about it...I'm going to be very disappointed with all of you.
But besides that.. hello again! How are the Americas? Life is swell over here in Ukraine..
Sister Busath and I have been having some fun with our green thumbs and have now not only been blessed with having our pepper plant but we now have two bean plants who went from beans in napkin to two sprouting little bean STOCKS in a week! It's pretty awesome.
We also went to Zap this week for exchanges and it was actually pretty funny because we were going to be late getting from our apartment to the bus station to drive to Zap Monday night so we called a taxi and in the mean time, like ten minutes, waiting for the taxi, we noticed our beans were sprouting so much so we frantically put them in dirt,in jars right before we left,  and when we came back from zap on Wednesday they were big!

In Zap I listened to Russian almost the entire day because I went with Sister Stepaiko who's from Kiev and we spent most of the day with a member named Ella , who's super awesome, she's in a wheelchair but she's just the best, so sweet and has such a strong testimony.



When we came back from Zap we had a district meeting with our district elders and they had bought and cooked an OSTRICH egg! haha so random but pretty cool. And so I ate an ostrich egg! pretty good. Also Sister Busath has an irrational fear of eggs but we got her to eat a piece!





One windy day we got lost trying to find a park to talk to people in but we ended up by a bunch of houses so I suggested we knock on a door ( Sis busath has never gone tracting yet! So we did a few "firsts" this week for her ) and we did, we went to one house and after the third ring a man came out and we couldn't really understand what he said but he was nice and we left a card. :)
Also we had a couple of lessons with Galina this week and she's still doing great and going to be baptized in two weeks! We're super excited for her and we invited her to invite her family and friends to the baptismal service and she did and said a lot will come! Proud:)
Also the center sister will probably have a baptism the same day! And it's for a girl who sister Spicer and I met on a marshrootka a long time ago, she knows a lot of English, and their mission leader happened to start working at the same place as her! So cool.

Love you all! ( even if you didn't tell me about the album it's ok I'll forgive;))

-Cectpa Horne


(WE TOLD CELINE about the new Taylor Swift album coming out in November so now she's informed! so don't worry everyone! lol!  
John and Isabelle Horne)

Village preachin

Great week but full of a bunch of little miracles that aren't that interesting to write about tbh...

 On Saturday though we went to the house of one of our friends who we've been teaching for awhile, Marina, out in a little village not too far away and they fed us soup and we got to meet her mom and grandma and great grandma and her uncle! And we taught the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ to them. It was really good and spiritual and it was really nice because it's honestly been a while since I have been able to recite the first vision and I love doing that and the Spirit witnessed to me again that it was true!  I could feel the Spirit so strong when I told the story and  I really hope they felt it too! The mom seemed super interested  and so did the uncle, so I thought, until  we asked them if they would read and pray about the Book of Mormon and he told us that it was the same book as the bible  (??) haha so we were like noo.. but Marina's mom even showed him that it wasn't which was cool!

Anyway sorry not much this week but I've been blessed with so many moments this week where I get another witness that this is the truth. This is God's work. And it's super cool. I love being a missionary:) Also I've been reading the April conference Liahona (aka Ensign ) ever since we've got it and it's been my goal to read all the talks in it before October Conference and I'm almost done! I'm SO excited for next conference!!

Talk to you next week, have a good one!

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers XD

YO.

So not much happened this week.  Except.... I GOT A PEPPER PLANT:)

Yup. Hot peppers! I love spicy food and they don't have many in Ukraine but one day this week I wanted to buy this hot pepper plant we saw on the street , so I did! but then we decided that we could use it to contact people. So the next day we went into a nearby market holding my pepper plant and walked around and asked some people if they knew where we could find a pot to put it in. Well we actually found one pretty quick but then walking back, a lady passing by asked me how much it was. Well we stopped and talked with her and she was super nice and we ended up talking for about a half an hour. So now we have a friend named Galina who hopefully plans to come to church next sunday! We call it pepper-plant contacting and we tried it again and didn't work as well but maybe it was just meant for us to find Galina. :))) lol 

Also I almost died one day when eating a shwarma!! ( like a delicious middle eastern burrito ) but luckily I have someone looking out for me! So basically we bought a shwarma and brought it home and I actually waited til we got home to eat it (which i don't usually do ) and then it fell apart and all over my plate! so ate it with a fork and then as I'm finishing what fell out , I find a WASP!! With it's stinger still on it!! AH!! Man I'm seriously so grateful that I didn't eat it... be careful when you buy shwarma off the street y'all.

Have a good week y'all!

Loves,

Cectpa Horne

Left Bank. Best Bank.

It is good to be back writing on a computer at the branch (instead of the stress of the timer of a internet cafe computer) writing to y'all :) It's also good to be back serving on the Left Bank and in this branch! Not all of them.. but most of the members remembered me and it was good to see them again. We got to visit a few of them this week already and they're all super great.

 It's my first time ever serving in just one branch! It's pretty weird. We're definitely not as crazy busy as before but we still have a lot of work to do. This week we were mostly trying to figure things out together etc. but it was a good week. We even saw some miracles and we have an investigator on date to be baptized!!

Btw Sister Busath is awesome! Super cool, we have lots in common and I'm excited to have this transfer serving together!

So Saturday night was pretty cool. I'd say we had kind of a last floor, last door experience  (talk by Elder Ucthdorf https://www.lds.org/liahona/2016/11/general-womens-session/fourth-floor-last-door?lang=eng ) except tracting (going door to door) is not very effective here. We weren't doing that but we were going to visit members on our list and drop off cookies and get to know them. Well the day was kinda long, it took forever to make these cookies for some reason and I accidentally burnt some of them and then a lot of people weren't home or wouldn't let us in but we did give out two of our three bags of cookies and it was cool cause at the house we planned to stop by we met a nice guy who used to come to our English practice. But then we still had one bag we wanted to give to someone so we looked to see if anyone had a birthday recently and we found this one guy who we didn't know but he lived close and so we decided to see if we could give them to him. Well it seemed like he wasn't home and a babushka (grandma) sitting on the bench beside the apartment tried to help us find who we were looking for and she asked the lady who just came up to the door if she knew him. Turned out he was her son! And she was wanting to talk to us and to visit them! Blessings:) God is directing His work my friends.

We had an awesome lesson with our investigator Galina (different one than last time) and she said that she's decided she for sure wants to be baptized! So happy for her:) 

Also guess what?! I finished the Book of Mormon yesterday!!! WOOHOO! Second time all the way through and best time! I flipping LOVE this Book and I know that it is the word of God. I have gotten so much closer to my Savior this year by studying it everyday and I invite all of you to do it to cause seriously you'll be amazed at how much it will bless your life! :)

LOVE you

Cectpa Horne

Ps sorry no pics, I forgot my camera :( but next week!