Why Russian is an Interesting Language

Greetings, comrades!

I write all this email, how in russian speak. Maybe, to you it will be hard to read. Such is life. Welcome in my world!

On this week we with Elder Downing led english practices. In Thursday we were in one english club, which is called "Kamelot". Was good. They want, so that I brought my guitar and played to them a song on english. I agreed, therefore I sing them a song in Thursday. To woman, which owns club, films are pleasing. She said to us about new Alien movie, which is in theatre. She wants, so that we watched it, but to us is not allowed to watch films. She and her husband are very nice people.

In Friday I was on exchanges with Elder Anderson. He is steep. We with him talked about music a lot. He speaks according to russian the way, how I speak, so we conversed on russian a lot.

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Ok. that's enough of that. That hurts even my brain, and I speak Russian. Anyway, that's the way that I've had to view the world for the last section of my life.

FUN FACT: In Russian, "steep" is one of the words they use to mean cool. It's also the word they use to describe hardboiled eggs. So, a steep guy could walk up a steep hill eating steep eggs and that would make perfect sense to a Russian speaker.

If you're confused about what the first half of the email actually means, all I said was that I'm going to play a song for an English club we go to, and the lady who runs the club really likes movies and was telling us to go see the new Alien movie that's coming out, but we can't watch movies. Pretty straightforward.

Well, that's all, I think.

Peace out!

Elder Robison

CINCO DE MAYO!

So, we had a Cinco de Mayo party this week. Elder Downing and I being from Texas and all that jazz. Sister Hines came into the district, and on Wednesday she was like, Hey, isn't Cinco de Mayo this Friday? And then we were like, I'll be darned, it is this Friday! So, the district decided to through a Cinco de Mayo celebration. We invited a bunch of people, bought a bunch of stuff to cook a lot of Mexican food, and then had the party. It was probably the most short notice activity that I've ever been a part of organizing. It was a ton of fun, everything turned out great, and we made some cool friends.

Cinco de Mayo is awesome in Ukraine.

That's pretty much the only noteworthy thing that happened this week. Elder Downing is now mostly not sick. I'm not feeling great, but I'm not sick yet!

This week should be interesting. It's Victory Europe day tomorrow, so there's going to be lots of celebrating. 

That's about everything I can think of. If I remember something important, I'll write a follow-up.

Peace!

Elder Robison

The Salty Sunbeams

First, no, this is not the name of my new Ukrainian post-grundge band, it's just the name of our district this last transfer. So, actually, it is pretty much just the name of my new Ukrainian post-grundge band. It just kind of happened I'm not really sure how. Someone said it on, like, Friday, and it's been adopted. Too bad we're going to change it this week for the change that's happened in our district.

What? Change? Yes. Sister Busathe (have I even mentioned before who all is in my district right now?) is leaving for Poltava, the land of serjic (the mix of Ukrainian and Russian that happens in Ukraine) and everything that is beautiful in the summertime. Sister Hines is going to replace her. Sister Hines is a deportee from Russia, just Like Elder Anderson and Elder Downing. In fact, they're the only remaining deportees in the mission. And now they'll all be in one district. Funny how that happens.

Elder Downing has been sick all week. Pretty bad. By some miracle, I'm not sick! Yet! I refuse to get sick, it might kill me. The fun thing about that is that Elder Downing had been under the impression that he never sleep-talks, but all week he's been sleep-talking. Not quietly, mind you, but full voice talking in his sleep. Full sentences. Ocassionally Russian words. It's both funny, terrifying, and a bit annoying.

Turns out, Ukrainians love American football when you teach them to play it. We found a football, bought it, and then played 2-hand touch. Even though the field was way too short, which made it a bit lame, they were hooked. After English practice that night they were asking to go out and play another game, but it was too dark already. It was definitely fun.

So, that's pretty much my week.

Peace!

Elder Robison

P.S. basically I'm not going to be uploading pictures for a while. Internet clubs in Kharkov are sketchy and filled with viruses, so I don't want to connect my SD card. Sorry!