So, this week, we met Batman. Straight up, Batman. We were out talking to people, and we stopped this one guy and talked to him. He started telling us about how he was bullied as a kid, and how he doesn't ever want anyone to feel bullied, and then we gave him a Book of Mormon. As we said goodbye, he turned to us and said "Protect your beliefs". Hence the title of this week. Later on, he texted us and said "Never give up. Never". He's a pretty interesting guy.
We have 2 people who are getting ready to be baptized now! And they're both named Sasha! And they're both getting baptized on the same day! Which just so happens to be the last day of the transfer! And the day of the Branch Activity that we're planning! That day will be told of for many transfers as a day of hectic and frenetic work.
We also have another investigator, Dan, who speaks English. Dan is hilarious, we love him! Except for when he doesn't come to church because he woke up at 2 in the afternoon. He's super cool though, and he has accepted to be baptized! No date yet, he still is finding out if he really believes, but he said if he finds out it's true, he'll be baptized. We told him we'd play Uno together if he comes to church, so hopefully that's enough motivation for him.
Guess who got to play some guitar at a Ukrainian music shop. Me! It was boatloads of fun, it felt good to play guitar again. I'm now set for another 5 months of not playing guitar!
On friday, we had to teach institute. Institute is a course for young adults, ages 18-30, where we talk about the gosple and have good discussions. We don't normally do institute right now, because there's only one active young adult in our Branch, and he can't make it to the course because of school. Of course, none of this mattered to the man from the office who called Elder Ditty and told him he had to teach institute.
The office guy came all the way down here from Днепропетровск to try and help us find some of the less-active young adults, something Elder Ditty and I have been doing for a transfer and a half now. I think that Elder Ditty summed up the experience best when he said, and I quote,
"...unfortunately, one is now a prostitute, and the other is faking a temperature to avoid us...".
You can't make this stuff up.
We went on Wednesday or Tuesday to a pizza place called Al Capone's. It's a pretty nice place and the pizza's really good there. We're friends with the host, he's a super cool guy. When we got there, he took our coats. I always carry at least 2 copies of The Book of Mormon in the pockets of my coat, because my coat's pockets are big enough. He felt how heavy my coat was, and then got this little grin on his face and said, "What's in here that's so heavy? Pistols? Grenades?".
"No, it's just books."
"Oh. Just books. Right..."
And then he laughed a little and put our coats on the rack. On the way out, he handed us our coats back and said, "Just books, right? If the police ask, that's what I'll tell them."
And then we all had a good laugh.
That pizza really is good.
So, that's been our week pretty much. I'm gonna make some bread today, I feel like making bread. I'll send some pictures of that next week!
Peace out!
Elder Robison
That back there is the Dnepr river. It's contaminated by heavy metals due the Chernobyl incident.
Cheesecake
Just doing some finances...
Post-finances faces...
The pancakes WILL be eaten!
The guitars WILL be played!
That's a really big blanket hanging from a door. Elder Ditty really wanted to wash it, so he did. It turned out to be a bad idea, because big comforters like that are really heavy and soak up a lot of water. It ended up almost breaking our washing machine, and then it took a long time to dry. It was insanely heavy.
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