So, Autumn

Well, Autumn came, kicked the door down, stole all of my nice warm weather, and left a bunch of clouds and leaves. So that's a thing now.

Anyway, pretty much out of time this week, so I'll just send some cool pics and let you enjoy those. No explainations, just pics

So... Zaporozhe...

Guess who's in Zap again! This Elder! Whoo!

Basically, we're here so Elder Harris can sign like two or three sheets of paper. Whoo! Fun! Work! Effective use of time!

I'm so tired.

This week has been trains, trains, trains, and more trains. We went to Kherson on a train, then left Kherson on a train, and then, right after we got off of that train, we had to go print out the tickets for another train, and then get on that train the next day after church, and now, after a 9 hour ride through the night, we're in Zaporozhe. And tonight we're getting on a 10 hour train ride back to our area. I don't even remember other things that happened this week. It's just all trains.

And more trains.

But next week should be devoid of trains! So we will look forward to next week!

I have a bunch of pictures that could be sent, but that will have to wait until next week too.

We're gonna go eat some food pretty soon here, because we're starving.

The moral of this story is; trains are better than buses, but better doesn't mean good, and it doesn't make me any more happy about having to use them.

Well, that just about sums up my week.

Peace out!

Elder Robison

You What? You Lose Yer Wits? You Dumbfounded?

That's a fun Russian phrase. I picked it up, not really knowing what it meant, but I figured out how to properly time it. It's really simple in Russian, it's just three words "Ti shto, abaldyel?". It may seem that funny, but trust me, It's hilarious in Russian!

What happened that was interesting this week... I'm not sure. Well, a lot happened, I just don't know where to start, and I'm running out of time shortly!

On Monday we helped Dasha (The one who thinks I speak Ukrainian) set up a new bench at a really pretty spot near a bridge. She just decided that she wanted a bench there, so she built one, and we helped her move the pieces and put them together. It's pretty awesome, I don't think that I've heard of that kind of thing here. Everybody else was worried that people were going to just ruin the bench or throw trash all over the place or something. I just looked at her and said, "Just because bad people are going to do bad things, doesn't mean we should stop doing good things. Then I grabbed my pieces of the bench and we started walking. It was like a movie. If it becomes a movie, I demand to be played by Chris Pratt. Maybe.

Then we went to Zone Training (In Zaporozhe). That was cool, we rode a night train on the way back.

Fast forward to Sunday, I made delicious biscuits! Elder Harris agrees, they're better than Popeye's biscuits. Southern man don't need him around anyhow!

Anyway, going back to Kherson this week, that'll be fun.

Peace out!

Elder Robison

P.S. I found the largest spider that I've seen in Ukraine so far on Saturday. It's about the size of a small Texas spider, so I was impressed.

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Not Dead Yet!

Hey guys!

I'm still here!

I just haven't sent anything because I've been busy. Writing the language tip is a bit of a pain, but it's also kind of fun. It eats a lot of time though.

So, I've been here in Nikolaev for 5 months now! Olya and Katya think that I'm going to stay here for a lot longer, but my whole district thinks that I'm leaving at the end of this transfer. I'm torn between wanting to be able to serve in other parts of the mission and the fact that I really love being here. I guess we'll find out in a month how that turns out!

Not a ton has happened this past 2 weeks. Elder Harris has found several nice resteraunts already. It was actually pretty funny, we found this one pizzeria that we thought would be good. We sat down and got our pizza, which was pretty good. Then, we're looking around, and we see this painting of a naked woman laying in pasta. And then we weren't really sure what to do. So we ate our pizza and are now in search of a different place. Woohoo! Europe!

I went back to Kherson this last week and was on exchanges with Elder Fuller. That was fun, we got to go around and teach a few lessons, be a boss companionship for a day. Elder Harris and I got on the train back, which broke down and sat about 5 minutes from the station for about an hour. That was annoying.

I'm learning Ukrainian! Our friend Dasha somehow got it into her head that I speak Ukrainian, which got me thinking; if  I learn Ukrainian it should solidify my knowledge of Russian. Plus, I'll be able to understand people who speak serjic better. It's already helped quite a bit! The only thing is, I don't have anybody to speak Ukrainian with because hardly anybody in this part of Ukraine actually speaks Ukrainian. I can annoy my companions with it though, so that's good.

Well, that's just about it.

So...

Peace out?

Elder Robison