My life #ramenslave99

-
Sorry that title is an inside joke with Sister Maisey and Moore. So hahhahahah if you are reading this right now. But it also kind of sums up our week. On Monday Sister Osguthorpe got really really sick with some sort of stomach bug so we stayed home for a few days while she recovered. We played lots of codfish (a card game that sister Osguthorpe and I get veryyyy competitive at), watched almost all the Mormon messages available on the website, and ate soooo much ramen. Let's just say thank goodness for senior couples and for their delicious homemade bread and all other wonderful yummy things they brought us while we were holed up in our apartment. 

In other news, we had kind of a crazy bunch of calls from President and the assistants this week while we were lying at home. So basically my companion is going home in a week because she is finishing her mission! I am so sad because I love her and we only got three weeks together but now I need a new companion. It worked out that another sister in Ukraine is getting deported because her registration expired so she will come be with me until the end of the transfer. It's been kind of crazy and lots of phone calls and poor communication but now its all figured out. 

We met this week with Alina and had a great lesson with her. She is still set to be baptized on the 24th so everyone pray for her! 

Funny story: On Sunday we had a fun day and had to go pick up some ties that the Elders ordered from this random lady's house (long story) so we got there and planned on only staying a few minutes but maybe giving her a Church card or a Book of Mormon. She was really nice and invited us in. Then she proceeded to try to sell us all natural home and body products from a Ukrainian multi-level marketing company. We sat there for an hour and a half while she showed us all the science experiments to convince us to buy her products. Let me just say i was very impressed hahah if i wasn't going to be transferred in a few weeks I probably would have left there with the laundry detergent and the sulfate free shampoo. So after patiently enduring the presentation (which turned out to be super great Russian practice) we tried to give her a Church card and she rejected us so hard. Well that's life sometimes! 

Other than that, this week I have had some extra personal study time and I have been studying faith and reading the "Lectures On Faith" by Joseph Smith. It is so cool to see how faith is actually a principle of power. Everything we do is guided by the principle of faith. We work because we have faith that we will receive money, and we study in school because we have faith that we will grow our knowledge. Like faith can make good things happen in our temporal lives, it is also faith that makes good things happen in our spiritual lives. I definitely see the principle of faith working in missionary work every day. There have been times when I have gotten frustrated and lost faith without even knowing it and it takes work to gain it back. But I know if we pray and rely on the Lord and have faith and hope that good things will happen, they actually will. 

Love you all!
Cectpa Daines 

Pictures: 
1. Raaaaamennn
2. Making home made vareniki (ukranian dumplings)
3. Walking with Tanya!
4. We also made home made oreos this week while Sister osguthorpe was sick 
5. MOLDOVA SISTERS 4 LIFE





Popular posts from this blog

Слава Украине

-
Image
This is it... 18 months later and I am coming home this week. I can't believe how fast the last year and a half have flown by but looking back, there has been so much change, growth, and learning I have experienced in this short time.  This week we went out with a bang. Faith was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! Her baptism was a special day and many people came to support her. She was baptized by a member of our ward who's family was involved in the finding and teaching process, it was such a cool experience! She got a new wave though so she had to put a plastic bag over her hair when she was baptized and we were dying! After the baptism a bunch of us went out for burgers and then I had my closing interview that night. So bittersweet! We also had a thanksgiving dinner this week where we ate lots of food, celebrated a Ukrainian/Hungarian wedding, and bore our closing testimonies. What a week.  It has been a huge bless...
Read more

Я люблю Украину ❤

-
Image
Woahhhh man this week has been a busy one but it has sure been a blast. I just got to my new area and me and my companion, sister innes, are loving it! My new area is a ward in Kiev right by where I served in Kiev a while ago. This whole week honestly every other word out of my mouth is "I LOVE UKRAINE!!" I seriously loved moldova too but for some reason Ukraine just feels like home to me. And I love these people soooooo much (even though they hate talking to us and reject us a ton). I'm so happy to be back in kiev for the next couple transfers!  So on Wednesday I woke up  at 4 am  and flew out here and man I was so exhausted because my comp and I just came back and taught lessons and did a ton of planning. The next day we also had a ton of meetings with the zone leaders to plan our zone activity for Monday and zone conference for tuesday! Everything is coming right at the beginning of the transfer. Contacting here is definitely different than in moldova, I forg...
Read more

First Women Witnesses Ever!

-
Image
Jk! I have no idea if that is actually true but literally a couple days after the announcement a woman in our ward called and asked us to be the witnesses at her son's baptism! It was actually super special because she is someone I have known throughout my mission! My parents were in her ward when they were first married and living in England and when I got my call to Ukraine they immediately connected through Facebook and now I am serving in her ward! We went to family home evening at their house on Monday and were really excited to find out that their 8 year old son would be baptized on Saturday. Little did we know that we would actually be able to be the witnesses! It was so cool, I love modern revelation. Other than making history, this week was crazy as usual. On Tuesday we had MLC for all the leadership in the mission at the Kumfermans' house which is always the best when we get to be there. We also went to the Temple and did baptisms with our recent convert Natash...
Read more