Ukraine Week 6 August 20, 2012
Dear Family and Friends!!!!
I love you all so much and after this week I know that the Lord is blessing all of you for your support and prayers you offer for me. Thank all so much I know that the Lord has answered them this last week. This last week has been an amazing week to say the least. It was full of amazing things. So to start off things have been a little slow for the last few weeks and we had been praying for just one new person each day that we could maybe talk to again and since we started doing that we have been blessed with at least one new contact or person possibly interested in the gospel. I know that when we are specific with our prayers the Lord answers them; no doubt in my mind about that.
This last week we were blessed with 5 new investigators. We met these two guys from Nigeria who came to our little family night thing that we do on Monday nights. They seemed to be super interested so that was amazing and we also met another guy from Nigeria who we had the first lesson with and it was an amazing lesson. He is just amazing! As we were reading from The Book of Mormon he was analyzing the words and breaking the verse apart and figuring out what it was actually tell us. Ii mean this guy is amazing and it just so happens that he knows another member that he has been going to school with for the last 5 years here, so there we go we got fellowship already and it was just perfect.
We also met with a member’s wife; she is not a member of the church and has been really against the church for many years. They have an adorable little girl together and apparently we are the first missionaries who have met with them. And from what I heard, she was super against the church. But in our lesson we talked a little bit about families. She was super happy and super into it and seemed like she was really interested in what we were talking about. She brought up some concerns about eternity……. so perfect, next lesson: plan of salvation. She is wonderful and super, super nice person. They fed us some super Ukrainian food, my companion said and it was good. She did like chicken with plum inside of them and these little sandwich wrap things and this soup called akroshka not sure on the spelling especially since it was in English but basically its like butter milk ham greens and a few other things but it was really, really good and it was a cold soup which surprised me but it was great. (I looked this up for Anthony and added the definition Okroshka…… The classic soup is a mix of mostly raw vegetables (like cucumbers and spring onions), boiled potatoes, eggs, and a cooked meat such as beef, veal, sausages, or ham with kvass, the so-called bread drink, which is a mildly fermented black or rye bread. Okroshka is usually garnished with sour cream.
I love you all so much and after this week I know that the Lord is blessing all of you for your support and prayers you offer for me. Thank all so much I know that the Lord has answered them this last week. This last week has been an amazing week to say the least. It was full of amazing things. So to start off things have been a little slow for the last few weeks and we had been praying for just one new person each day that we could maybe talk to again and since we started doing that we have been blessed with at least one new contact or person possibly interested in the gospel. I know that when we are specific with our prayers the Lord answers them; no doubt in my mind about that.
This last week we were blessed with 5 new investigators. We met these two guys from Nigeria who came to our little family night thing that we do on Monday nights. They seemed to be super interested so that was amazing and we also met another guy from Nigeria who we had the first lesson with and it was an amazing lesson. He is just amazing! As we were reading from The Book of Mormon he was analyzing the words and breaking the verse apart and figuring out what it was actually tell us. Ii mean this guy is amazing and it just so happens that he knows another member that he has been going to school with for the last 5 years here, so there we go we got fellowship already and it was just perfect.
We also met with a member’s wife; she is not a member of the church and has been really against the church for many years. They have an adorable little girl together and apparently we are the first missionaries who have met with them. And from what I heard, she was super against the church. But in our lesson we talked a little bit about families. She was super happy and super into it and seemed like she was really interested in what we were talking about. She brought up some concerns about eternity……. so perfect, next lesson: plan of salvation. She is wonderful and super, super nice person. They fed us some super Ukrainian food, my companion said and it was good. She did like chicken with plum inside of them and these little sandwich wrap things and this soup called akroshka not sure on the spelling especially since it was in English but basically its like butter milk ham greens and a few other things but it was really, really good and it was a cold soup which surprised me but it was great. (I looked this up for Anthony and added the definition Okroshka…… The classic soup is a mix of mostly raw vegetables (like cucumbers and spring onions), boiled potatoes, eggs, and a cooked meat such as beef, veal, sausages, or ham with kvass, the so-called bread drink, which is a mildly fermented black or rye bread. Okroshka is usually garnished with sour cream.
So a few weeks ago this lady who lives in our dom came down to us while we were playing some basketball and she told us her baby was super sick and wanted us to pray with her to help heal her baby. So we did that. Then we didn’t see her until yesterday and she told us that her baby was healed the next day. It just shows that when we have faith God will help us though anything we need. This woman had some great faith to help heal her baby and it was super cool to see that happen. Unfortunately, her husband is against the church but we will maybe try to meet with her because she is super interested in what we do and she knows we are servants of the Lord.
Yesterday was Sunday and Sundays always get me, because it is still a lot of Russian running through my head so I last about 30 minutes before it’s over load and I fall asleep but it’s getting better and better each week so maybe by the end of next transfer my brain won’t be “fried” from the Russian language. Ha Ha We will see though after church. We went looking for a less active person and walked about 45 min or maybe an hour to get to the house. We struggled to find it and once we found it the guy had the door open for maybe 5 seconds and then slammed it in our face. It was disappointing, but we went on our way and as we were walking got caught in a nice storm and just got dumped on by rain and we loved it. That is what missionary work is about. Doing things in sometimes poor conditions and seeing the bright side of things. Then we walked for about an hour and a half more and nothing happened, but then on our way home we met this guy who accepted us. He wanted to meet again, so I know that the Lord places us where He needs us to be, so that we can find those people who need the gospel. We may never know if that person will accept the gospel right away, but it is still a success when we talk to them because we may have just opened their hearts for the next missionary.
We are always preparing people as well as harvesting those that are ready. So no effort is a waste ever. This week was just full of spiritual answers and I know that the Lord blesses us for our efforts and will continue to do so as long as we are doing what is asked of us and doing what we are commanded to do. I love this work and as I said a few weeks ago I could see the work was about to pick up because all of our efforts were just building up. I know for a fact that the Lord is on our side and he is here to help us bring his children back to him and he wants us all to return to him and that’s our purpose as missionaries. I know this work is true and I am so happy to be out here. I love you all so much and I pray for you all every day.
Love Elder Litchfield
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