What is Even Happening Right Now

Hey everybody, how's it going? Good? Good.

Yeah... I'm in Kherson right now... again...

Fun week.

We went up to Zaporozhe, as planned, on Wednesday. Then we stayed there till Friday, which was not planned. We rode on a bus for 10 hours to get home that day. It was bad.

It's okay though, Zone Training was really cool on Thursday, I gave a section on learning the language, which everyone seemed to really enjoy.

On Saturday there was a picnic in Kherson, so we took all of our members from Nikolaev and went over to the beach on Kherson! It was super fun!

We found out that morning that Elder Mayberry was leaving Nikolaev to go to Kharkiv, the place Elder Kalt and Elder Jensen left to. President told me that I was going to serve with a mini-missionary in Nikolaev. Only problem was that he couldn't remember the name of my new companion, so he said I'd have to figure that out out later when the AP's called with travel plans.

That night, the AP's called to tell Elder Mayberry how he was gonna go to Kharkiv, so I asked them when my new companion was going to arrive, and what his name was. They said he'd be here Wednesday, but that they didn't know his name, and they had just been using a blank sheet of paper to represent him in their planning.

So, Sunday goes by, and at about 9:15 I suddenly get a horrible thought: what if my new companion just doesn't exist? Nobody knows his name, none of members can think of anybody who matches the general description that President gave me, we don't even know which branch in Kharkiv he's from. What if he just never really was?

'bout 15 minutes later, I get a call from the AP's

"Hey, Elder Robison. I've got some bad new for you. Well, maybe not bad news, but... it's news. Your short-term missionary just bailed. You're going to be serving in Kherson with Elder Ditty and Elder Fuller until we can find you a new companion. Sorry!"

Then I spent an hour laughing at the fact that somehow I ended up back in Kherson. With the same companion. Plus Elder Fuller.

At the same time I'm freaking out, because this whole situation means that there will be no missionaries at all in Nikolaev for the forseeable future, and that means I have to close English Practice, organize things with the members so that someone goes to help our recent convert, figure out how to explain to the members that there won't be any missionaries in their city anymore... fun stuff.

10:30 rolls around and I get a call from my Zone Leader, who's a total bro, and he tells me that he arranged for 2 missionaries from his city to come all the way down to serve with me in Nikolaev until they can find a new mini-missionary. So, disaster averted on all fronts for now! Thanks to everyone who had to organize that one, because that must have been fun!

So, that's how I ended up in Kherson. I'm here until Wednesday when my companions can make it down to the South.

woo.

Peace out!

Elder Robison