Well, the new addition for the apartment didn't work out, because the only one we could find was ugly. It's OK, we'll keep searching untill we find one.
On Monday, we went everywhere in the city doing stuff, such as; Looking for the cool thing for our apartment; Getting antibiotics from the Netherlands for Elder Ditty; Going to a second-hand store to look for a new suit for Elder Ditty; Taking the ties that Elder Ditty bought instead of a suit to a tailor to get taken in; Going to a flag and souveniors store to by something cool. Unfortunately, the flag store was closed due to the fact that Tuesday was March 8th, International Women's Day.
Literally the whole country closes down for even the most minor of holidays. Some people closed all week for Women's Day. Including banks, which we just so happen to really need in order to do finances.
Tuesday was Women's Day (Happy Women's Day!). As a result, pretty much every woman was carrying at least one flower, which was actually sort of nice. We said goodbye to Sister Bolingbroke at English practice, because she got transferred up to Dnepropetrovsk. On the brighter side, we got to meet the Sister who's replacing her. We got an Armenian sister who's serving a "mini-mission". Her name is Sister Martirisyan, or, because Elder Ditty can't remember how to pronounce her name, Sister Marty. Sister Marty is super cool, she speaks Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian, and English. She doesn't always remember my name correctly, and so sometimes I end up being Elder Robin. Or just Robin.
We got the Sisters flowers and chocolate for Women's Day, they were very appreciative.
Wednesday, we...
Thursday, we went with Viktor (The member with the writing on his walls) to give the Tank a priesthood blessing. While trying to bless him, his Eastern Orthodox mother came out and started yelling at us. Viktor then countered by explaining everything we were doing, and even though she still didn't get it (She's like 80-something, which, in Ukraine, is like being 130-someodd), she did leave us alone long enough to let us finish giving the blessing.
Friday we met with some guy who just wanted to use us to try and go to America. Then, once we left, we stumbled across an Eastern Orthodox Bookstore. We decided to drop in and see if they had a Bible there. I still hadn't purchased a Bible in Russian because they're pretty expensive here, and pretty rare apparently. We got me a nice little Bible that has a zipper on the outside to protect the pages. We bought it, and shortly after we stepped out of the store we met a really cool guy. We would never have found him if we hadn't stopped at that little store to buy a Bible, and that's something that we technically should have saved for today.
The Russian Bible is very interesting. It's pretty different from the King James Version of the Bible, the translation which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has determined to be the most correct English translation. Some parts of the Russian Bible are more correct, others are way, way wrong. It's very interesting. It's also fun to read Russian Biblical language!
It's very fun.
Saturday, we made Ukrainian pancakes for an activity! They're a lot like crepes, and as such, they are incredibly frustrating. I have never been so annoyed trying to make a food before, I'm never making them ever again.
We didn't actually attend the activity because a member chewed Elder Ditty out in front of everyone there. We sat in the primary room planning stuff instead.
Sunday was really good, noyhing weird happened. Except for the part where finances was awful. At one point Elder Ditty looked over at me and said:
"What if I told you that we only have 3 more slots left for expenses in the system?"
I then looked at the 5 expenses that we had left to enter and made a noise that Elder Ditty described as being "like the noise Voldemort made at the end of Deathly Hallows part 1". We then laughed for about 5 minutes.
Well, that's my week! Happy Pie day!
Peace out!
Elder Robison
A Bible? A Bible? I have already got a Bible!
"First Book of Moses: Being"
"3 And said God: Yes there will be light. And became light.
4 And saw God light, that he was OK, and divided God light from dark."
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