Я люблю Украину ❤

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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 forgot that Ukrainians are a little more hard and feisty than Moldova so I'm definitely adjusting back hahaha but I love ukrainians so much. Other than that we have met with a few investigators and new people and members. One of the members names is the Daniel's. The dad is from Wales and the mom is from ukraine and they have two really really cute kids who speak fluent russian, Ukrainian, and english. They only speak english in the house and we got to go over there and eat dinner and give a spiritual thought. They are the cutest family ever! It was so weird hearing kids speak english though hahaha I haven't heard that in a loooooong time. This week we also went out to a member and did service with the APs. We picked tomatoes and potatoes for 8 hours and it was a lot of fun. I haven't done a ton of service on my mission because people here usually just say "dont worry sisters this is only for the elders" so I love that this member lets us get to do work too. She fed us yummy Ukrainian food after:)

Well that's my week. I love my area and companion and how busy everything is here. I'm super exhausted but loving it! 

This week I studied coming unto Christ. We are reading the Book of Mormon until December as a mission and are marking invitations from prophets to come unto christ and are looking for ways we come unto christ. I loved the talk by Sherri Dew "Are you the woman I think you are?" It is a beautiful talk about coming unto Christ and I would encourage you all to read it this week. I love Jesus Christ, this gospel, the Book of Mormon, the mission, and ukraine. 

Love you all, have a great week!! 

С любовью, 
Сестра Дейнс 

Фотографии:
1. Me and sister innes 
2. This beautiful city, kiev!!!!
3. The Daniel's 
4. Zone activity :)








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