Twister is just an amazing game for 4 missionaries to play... and Elder Rice is just a goof ball, so thats where the subject line comes from.
This week went really good, I had my first success with tracting ever! It went really well! We have given out 2 Books of Mormon and A plan of Salvation pamphlet in a realatively short time, hopeful they will be touched by the spirit.
We also had a really good zone conference in Kharkov and Elder kecher from the area 70 was there, IT was a very good opprotunity for all of us to repent and become better.
Anna and Roman are starting to progress and we expect they will be baptized in the next month or so, we have high hopes for them.
SHe said that she is on level 2 of conversion according to her scale, they both like us and it seems like Anna is really starting to look for spiritual truth.
Love you All!
Hey buddy,
I was thinking the other day about how I have a 9 month wait to give you a big hug and finally see your face. Then I realized that 20 years ago in November I started a 9 month wait to meet, see, and hold you in August.
I am super anxious to hear about your week with your roomies!!! I hope things are a lot more fun now!! I also hope you are able to work even harder and be more successful!
A bunch of us Mission moms went to brunch yesterday. It was so fun. We had 8 of us. It's fun to swap stories and learn more about the areas.
This week for us was good. I was able to be successful with my first Thanksgiving dinner. Allie and I had our families and Traci joined us. Allie and I learned to make pies from scratch and also homemade rolls. It was really a fun week. I really enjoyed planning and preparing all the different dishes for our meal. Everything was finished at the same time on Thursday and was delicious. We had the TBoys as well.
I have spent the last few months seriously researching service dogs. I started feeling like we shouldn't wait for Cam to have seizures. I hope he never has them for one thing. But the more I researched I realized we were better off getting a puppy and finding a trainer to help us train the dog to be a service dog with Cam and Jord. Then we researched the best breeds for our needs. I knew it needed to be a big dog, because of how cam throws his weight around, the dog would need to be able to tolerate it. We decided on a Golden Retriever. After more research I decided I wanted an English Cream Golden Retriever. Then began the search for the right puppy. I thought about a puppy that was very well trained already, but realized we will probably ruin it within a week or so. I feel like the family will need the training as much as the dog does. So I found a lady that was selling the exact puppy I wanted and also provides 4 weeks of training with the price of the puppy. She also has a service dog training program that we can do with her that will be about 7 months long and is very reasonably priced. I wanted a girl puppy, and she had 1 left, but had a buyer for it. She said I could come at 3:00 and have the little girl if the lady didn't show up. I have prayed hard about this whole thing, so I prayed that if she was the right puppy for us she wouldn't get sold. The lady texted at 2:00 saying that the buyer never showed up. We went and met our little puppy and stayed for about an hour of training with her. The seller said that she spent 2 hours on the phone with the other buyer and she was shocked that she never showed up. So I am feeling confident that we are meant to have this puppy. The kids are doing great with her and she is crate trained already. She has had a few potty accidents, but all by the door and she has been mostly going outside for us. I am really excited about it as are the kids. It will be a lot of work, but I think we will be successful. She is so cute, Cam named her Penny.
BYU Basketball lost to UVU!!!!!!!!!...yes I said LOST. Curtis had taken Kalten, Jacob and Jordy to the game. He said it was our worst loss in 40-50 years. The football game was on about an hour later. In 11 seasons of BYU football that we have been married, Curtis has never missed watching a Football game. Well, this basketball game broke him completely. He didn't watch the football game at all! Hopefully he will recover;)
I get to speak to a ward in our stake this week, so I am excited about that. Josh has a madrigals concert and Jordy has a choir concert as well. Keely should be having this baby anytime now. It could be a couple days or a couple weeks. We are all really excited for them.
They finally built a new church in Bluffdale so starting next week we will go back to have only 3 wards in the building and we go to the 1:00 session and stay with that all through 2017. Sacrament meeting will be first again too.
Questions this week-
1-Are you still happy and positive?
2-How has the dynamic changed in the apartment with the new missionaries? Is it fun?
3-How are you and EV getting along? How is his Russian improving?
4-Did you go to any mission conferences last week?
5-Have you received the card in the mail yet? or the package?
6-How are your investigators coming?
7-Did you ever get your test scores back? How did you do?
8-One of the moms yesterday said her sons emails go to her and that there was an email about mission Facebook groups and a competition or something. Can we join those groups? Are you doing that?
9-Also someone said that Sumy has the best Sharmas. Is this true, you haven't said much about them?
10-How are you feeling about this transfer? Are you doing well as the DL?
11-What do you miss most about home? What do you miss most about living in america?
12-What is one of the biggest lessons you have learned on your mission?
13-recordings
14-Pics- remember I want a tag picture...do you know what I mean?
15-message to me:)
16-Are you mad we got a dog or glad?
17- christmas Skype---
-Lets discuss Christmas. When do you think you will be able to Skype for Christmas? We are only doing Sacrament meeting, but they haven't decided what time we will be doing it. So as soon as I find out I'll let you know. You said you wanted to come up with a plan going into this Skype session. What do you want to do for it? I was thinking about writing a bunch of questions down to ask you, and you could do the same. I'm not sure that we will be able to connect with Dakkon and G&G too. How are you feeling about it, and what are you wanting to do?
I miss you like crazy, but I am so proud of you and glad you are serving. I hope you are doing well. Keep working hard and being the best person you can be. Remember you aren't supposed to be perfect yet, that is why we are here. Just keep doing your best and improve each day.
Love you tons!!!!
Mom
Yes I am happy and positive. IT is more fun, but unfortunately it can be distracting at some times. YEah we are getting along better, its been a lot better since there are 4 people now. His Russian is slowly improving, he still really struggles. Yeah we got to go to the conference in Kharkov which was good, I saw EB and he looked like he was doing good. The Card is sitting in the Mission Office right now, they should send it up to me today. Our investigators are doing good, we think that Roman and Anna(The family history girl) will be baptized before next year. I got them back today, and it was really good to see the scores, he told me exactly what I needed to improve on and stuff. I got 97% on the Grammar test, and I need to retake a few of the other ones. The Vocab tests were hard, because every missionary gains a very different vocabulary, but they released all of the words on the tests, so I have been able to study them, a lot of the words are very useful, but that I usually just talk around.
Yeah I dont know if you can, it is Russian/Ukrainian Facebook. IT is called Contact, and I am pretty sure you wont be able to get onto it there, because There is a lot of "Free" Music on there, that I am pretty sure wont let you onto the site. All Music and Movies are basically Free here, because why pay for it on Itunes when you can download it for free? Yes Sumy does have the best Sharma, that is starting to be well known throughout the mission. I like Sharma every once and a while, but most missionaries like it a few times a week. I like it being a district leader is good, I think this will be one of my last transfers in Sumy.
I miss:FREE Public Toilets, Clean Streets, clean air, Straight sidewalks, Mountains, Tortillas, Doritos, The Lack of Stray Dogs and cats, my own car, maple syrup, waffle Irons, lunchmeats, Good Peanut butter, Drinking Fountains, happy people, Modest young women, the Lack of porn on the street, Good Dentistry, My Gospel Library, Manners, large wards and stakes, things to do in your free time, and of Coarse All of YOu! Specifically about our home, I miss pretty much everything.
Gratitude, and Charity are two big things. also we got this one last night from a potential investigator "If you want something good to get done, do it yourself." Yup pretty much, you cant really rely on anyone else to do something for you, except for God, and even then He requires things from you. I am glad you got a dog, I knew it would happen at some point. Yeah lets just both make a list of questions for Skype, we will probably be on at about 7-8 PM Ukraine time.
I love you so much thanks for figuring everything out with the Card. I am so blessed to have you as a mom. I am so excited that we only have 9 Months to go but at the same time I am terrified, because that is not very long at all (6 transfers). I love being a missionary and your son.
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