I honestly don't know how to describe this week. We didn't meet with hardly anyone because school is out and everyone is heading to the dacha (*small, little countryside homes outside the city) for vacation. We had one lesson with a member who was in town and it was definitely one of our odder ones. These ladies love cats and are notorious for it. Surprisingly, they only had two this week, but it was apparent that was one of their lowest numbers as they showed us pictures, each with a minimum of four cats and they were never the same??? One of them actually tried to keep one of my photos from my album to put it in her collection. I came out of their apartment feeling like I had sniffed a sharpie the whole time from all of the cat smells. At the end of our lesson we asked them if there was anything we could help them with and they look up to the light above us and say something along the lines of "You can come back and clean our dirty light". On our way out, these pigeons were flying around in the apartment hallway, and one of the sisters just picked one up. Apparently, they were the neighbor's "pets". So we will be going back to visit all the animals and to clean these ladies' light in the next week or so. What a place this is, Ukraine.
We had another lesson with Sasha this week about temples, eternal marriage, and family history. It was super special because Tad R. Callister came and spoke to the adults and Sasha went and they talked about families and temples a lot! It was so good for her and she is really excited to get baptized. When Sister Sutton showed her her family tree, she realized that our names on our tags were our last names and not our first names (those are all people use here). She felt a little lied to, but it was really funny because she told us she had thought our last names were really weird first names, but we were from America so she didn't say anything. So now everything makes a little more sense.
We had a Mission Meeting this week with Tad R. Callister and it was amazing! It was eye-opening and I feel like I learned so much! The whole mission was there so it was wild. I focused on getting to know younger missionaries since most of the ones older than me are going home soon. Our mission is so young in terms of the length of time the missionaries have been serving (elders 2 years and sisters 18 months)! Most of the sisters are going home this transfer, so starting in July there will be three whole Russian-speaking sisters who have been in the field longer than me. It's a great comfort to know there are sisters in Lviv who will join us. But for now I am gonna have to step up my game!
Today we went to center Kiev and it is gorgeous! I took some pictures for you!
I hope everyone has a great week!
Sister Vehar
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A sculpture of the Archangel Michael as a coat of arms of the city of Kyiv on the gate
Monument to the founders of Kyiv
Sisters Sutton & Vehar
All 14 sisters in the Ukraine Kyiv mission
The entire Ukraine Kyiv Mission (62 missionaries, 9 senior couples and President/Sister Kumferman and their daughter, Maggie
Some of us sisters enjoying a delicious meal (L-R: Sutton, Vehar, Eakins, Reid, Soucie, Flukiger, Pixton, & King)
One more of Sister Vehar and Sister Sutton
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