Happy день благодарения!

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Wowow what a fun week! This week was awesome and we have seen so much to be grateful for. We spent our Thanksgiving contacting on the street and then eating salads and CINNABON. So yes it was a good day haha. We also had a Thanksgiving miracle and got a new investigator, Luda who came to church last week! She met with us a couple times this week and came to church again! We are so excited about it and she read that we aren't allowed to drink coffee and already is trying not to drink it. She also wants to be baptized, we haven't set a date yet but she is praying and reading to know if this is true or not so she can be baptized. 

On Saturday we had Zone Conference and the amazing senior couples made us THANKSGIVING DINNER!! It was chicken instead of turkey cuz that ain't a thing here in Ukraine but it was really good and it made me HAPPY! 

Also we had an adventure on Sunday and got stuck in a sketchy elevator on the way to church for an hour and so we missed all of sacrament meeting but it was okay cuz we kinda had to scream and yell for someone to help us and an old babushka called someone and after an HOUR of sitting in a tiny dark wooden elevator a kind Ukrainian man came and pried us out. We scrambled out so fast and then RAN to church. It was quite the adventure. 

Today was a great P-day and one of the most random ones too. We went to a giant mall to go ice skating and then on the way out we saw a FISH MASSAGE place and everything here is super cheap so it was literally 6 dollars so we DID IT and it was CRAZY!!! Best Pday yet. (Sister King is really scared and has a weird thing about feet so she chickened out but its ok she took the photos). 

IM GRATEFUL FOR YOU ALL!! 

Love, 
Cectpa Daines

Pictures!!!:
1. Fish foot massage 
2. Winter is HEREEE
3. Thanksgiving Cinnabon
4. Combined zone conference





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