Sister Emily Daines

Всем привет! I want to write this whole email in russian because we got smartphones and it is super easy to type our emails on these things, even in русски! Anyway, this week we had zone conference and interviews. As usual it is always exciting when we get to have President and Sister Kumferman and maggie down in moldova with us. One thing that i miss about serving in Ukraine is seeing them more oftern, but it makes these zone conferences even more special.  As for our week, it was pretty good. We started teaching 2 new people this week. The first is Mihaela she is a super cool girl who grabbed a book of mormon at a book table, none of us had a chance to talk to her so i ran after her to get her number. She is so interested in the gospel and came to game night and loved it! The next is a lady named Nadejhda, she has come to 2 sacrament meetings before meeting with us and we were finally able to meet her and start teaching her which was very exciting. As for Alina (she was ...

This week I have been dreaming in Russian! I guess we could take that as a good sign, its pretty cool i guess because I go to sleep thinking about russian and wake up thinking about it. The only downside is the mild headache that I wake up with, but other than that its all good! Based on the questions I get from my parents each week when we skype, I thought there might be some confusion among you about what language I actually speak on my mission haha. Sooo, I speak Russian everyday. The eastern european countries who were part of the soviet union all still have russian influences. The majority of the population speaks Russian. In Ukraine, the eastern part speaks all russian and as you move west you get more and more ukrainian speakers. In Kiev everyone is fluent in both and so sometimes they just switch between the two which is called "Surgic." Here in Moldova, most people speak russian and romanian but we have separate romanian and russian branches because there are so...