Hello again peeps,
This was a weird and quick week. Had a some good lessons, some canceled lessons, some good activities and some listening to a lot of Russian ranting at one point, some miracles and some last minute rehearsals, some singing and eating.... haha ok sorry for that, anyway you get the picture actually a lot of things happened. But the highlight was probably Saturday night.
So the Kharkov district had planned to come with these musicians and have a concert here in the branch Saturday night. It was for the members and for them to invite their friends for a good night of musical performances from a professional guitar player or band. They planned this a few weeks in advance and even had nice little handouts and we invited all of our friends and people at our English practices etc. Then the night before, right as we were on our way to a " book of Mormon " club that we've been doing (where we just read and study some chapters together ), our district leader Elder Hubbard calls and asks me if I want the good news or the bad news first. I choose good and he says that tomorrow that I would have the opportunity to use and show off my talents. ahaha So I'm like ohhh nooo, what happened? So long story short the people called and canceled the concert, the performer was sick, couldn't come and so Elder Hubbard was like, if you don't sing, there will be no concert, haha , pretty dramatic right?;)
But basically what we did was all of us missionaries came up with a few different songs to perform and after practicing a bit that morning we put on a show for the crowd! haha. Not too many people turned up but they were still expecting a concert so we did what we could and it worked out pretty well! haha, was pretty fun too. If y'all want to see some clips.. apparently I'm on FB .. aha
Also a cool thing that happened was that one day we went to a basically Ukrainian subway and we saw this girl on break crying and so we asked what was wrong and she said it was ok and then left before we could give her a Book of Mormon. So we wrote in a BOM and were planning on giving it to her but we couldn't find her! We went back the next day and still didn't see her but we were praying we could get this Book that we wrote in to her and the next day it was perfect because she was passing out flyers outside and we got to talk to her and give it to her and she was so happy. Answers to prayers:))
Also just want to say, it's really sad when we hear of the horrible, devastating things around the world and how it seems there is less and less good and peace but I know that through Christ we can always find hope, peace and light in the darker times.
Peace to you all,
Sister horne
Monday 26 February 2018
Monday 19 February 2018
Wrapped and gifted BOM's with LOVE
Happy Valentine's Day!! Hope you all had a great week!
We had another awesome week! Lots happened. Let's see...
The night before Valentine's Day we wrapped 8 Books of Mormon really pretty then on Valentine's Day we went in the Park and gave them to people as gifts. We asked them if they would rather have rubies or diamonds and then we told them that this gift we're giving them is worth more then both of those. We met two young sisters who are really awesome and interested in meeting with us sometime and in reading the book.
We also needed to go to Epicenter to buy wrapping paper for the Books of Mormon so we did "shopping contacting" again.We met two nice women who we gave Books of Mormon to and got their numbers. It feels so awesome cause we're really trying to FLOOD THE WORLD (POLTAVA) with the Book of Mormon!
Saturday was transfer calls, and even though we expected to stay together there the last minute fears came but .. all is well! Sister Woolley and I are staying Poltava. Saturday night though we had a little farewell party, where we announced whom out of us were leaving to our friends. Another miracle happened just after our "farewell party" (which went really well by the way. - We showed the 20 minute Joseph Smith video and we had a lot of potential investigators there feel the spirit strongly and a few even were crying). We were just waiting for the bus when the lady there asked us where we were going, noticing we weren't from here but when we told her where we were from she was so excited and on the trolley bus she even told the lady giving tickets and we talked with both of them a bit and got both of their numbers to meet sometime. haha it's hilarious cause we keep having awesome little moments on the trolley bus. After we get off at our stop, Sister Woolley and I just looked at each other and are like .. what just happened?? :)
We had a fun branch Valentine's day activity on Friday and some members danced the tango.
Our investigator Tanya from last week is on date to be baptized so pray for her!
MUCH LOVE,
Sister Horne
We had another awesome week! Lots happened. Let's see...
The night before Valentine's Day we wrapped 8 Books of Mormon really pretty then on Valentine's Day we went in the Park and gave them to people as gifts. We asked them if they would rather have rubies or diamonds and then we told them that this gift we're giving them is worth more then both of those. We met two young sisters who are really awesome and interested in meeting with us sometime and in reading the book.
We also needed to go to Epicenter to buy wrapping paper for the Books of Mormon so we did "shopping contacting" again.We met two nice women who we gave Books of Mormon to and got their numbers. It feels so awesome cause we're really trying to FLOOD THE WORLD (POLTAVA) with the Book of Mormon!
Saturday was transfer calls, and even though we expected to stay together there the last minute fears came but .. all is well! Sister Woolley and I are staying Poltava. Saturday night though we had a little farewell party, where we announced whom out of us were leaving to our friends. Another miracle happened just after our "farewell party" (which went really well by the way. - We showed the 20 minute Joseph Smith video and we had a lot of potential investigators there feel the spirit strongly and a few even were crying). We were just waiting for the bus when the lady there asked us where we were going, noticing we weren't from here but when we told her where we were from she was so excited and on the trolley bus she even told the lady giving tickets and we talked with both of them a bit and got both of their numbers to meet sometime. haha it's hilarious cause we keep having awesome little moments on the trolley bus. After we get off at our stop, Sister Woolley and I just looked at each other and are like .. what just happened?? :)
We had a fun branch Valentine's day activity on Friday and some members danced the tango.
Our investigator Tanya from last week is on date to be baptized so pray for her!
MUCH LOVE,
Sister Horne
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| Picking up the Book of Mormons |
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| Wrapping up the books to give out as gifts. |
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| Time to hand out some book of Mormons on Valentines Day |
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| Branch Valentine's party |
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| Branch Farewell party |
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Buses, trains and exchanges
Hello Hello again my lovely friends and family,
Ok. So this week was little bit of awesome, crazy, hard, interesting and miraculous.
One of the first super things that we had the opportunity to do is to have a lesson in Japanese! ahah ok well to explain a little more there's this Japanese man who has been coming to our English practices named Ti-Pay and he's basically just the funniest person, so nice. He doesn't know much English and he doesn't know Russian so we got a Japanese Book of Mormon for him and since Sister Woolley had been telling me that her best friend has already been serving a year in the Tokyo mission I thought it would be so cool if we could skype them for a lesson with Ti-pay so we planned to meet this week all together and we had a lesson. The funny and crazy thing is we found out a couple days before that he actually had to leave Poltava that day because he was on his 88th day of a 90 day visa and now he's in Georgia but the sisters in Japan have his email and will hopefully continue to teach him through Skype because he really liked it and is still super interested. He had already read 15 pages of the Book of Mormon and the sisters got to explain it more to him in Japanese, he was so happy to talk to them. It was such a neat experience to be there and watch them teach him and bear testimony and bit to him in english about how I know God is real. It was a miracle that we got to start his journey in the gospel before he left.
Craziness of exchanges!! So once a transfer we have to do exchanges with the STL's right, and since our STL's are in Kharkov we had to go all the way there for a day so we left thursday night but uh oh, we actually took the wrong trolley bus that took us to the wrong train station, so we missed our train. We decided to just get tickets for the train at this station and they were way cheaper, we didn't know why. But then we got on the older looking train to find it's one of those over night ones! When we walked in it, it was so weird cause there were just babushkas and children on beds where seats would be, with pillows and sheets, it kind of felt like walking into a very small homeless shelter or something ahah. Anyway so that was an interesting experience! I actually have been wanting to try going on one of those trains so yay!
Exchanges were fun, I was with sister Savran again but I was fine with that:D we went creative contacting and built some snowmen and a lady I asked to help actually did and it was super cool! We also met some super nice Vietnamese girls ,who have actually lived here for most of their lives, and they wanted us to go get hot chocolate with them so we did. Also got to see a bunch of member friends from Khakov! It was a good day.
The next morning we left early and got a bus home because there were no trains that went at a convenient time. And.. we got in a bus crash! yeah. But don't worry we and all of the people were completely fine. It was pretty scary though! We were just studying when our driver honks the horn and then something (probably a car we didn't even see ) rams into the side of us and then there was some scary swerving where we thought we might flip but the driver got control and we stopped. It's ok because I know we have angels watching over us. We just had to wait like 2 hours for another bus to come but cool story eh?
So that Saturday we had a meeting set up with this seriously elect lady but she canceled:/ and we were pretty bummed but then we had a " movie night" planned where we watched the "Joseph Smith the Prophet of the Restoration" movie -which is seriously such an amazing movie and seeing all what Joseph Smith went through just always reaffirms my testimony that there was no way that he was not a prophet of God. We met a girl named Tanya there who the elders invited from English and she said she really liked it, we talked to her for a bit and I asked her if she was free to come to church the next morning, she said she wouldn't promise anything but we got her number and gave her a Book of Mormon. The next morning she came for all of sacrament meeting! She told Sister Woolley that she woke up early this morning and decided to start reading the Book of Mormon, she read the intro, then she felt like coming to church, so she came! We then had a lesson with her in second hour and explained the Book of Mormon to her more. Sister Woolley asked if she believed that Joseph Smith really did see Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and she said yes! She said she likes the Book of Mormon and she prayed at the end of the lesson. Unfortunately she had to rush to work but we plan to meet this week and teach her more. It was such a miracle.
Good things are happening and the Lord's work is going forth! I love being able to serve Him by being an instrument in His hands:)
Much love,
Sister Horne
Ok. So this week was little bit of awesome, crazy, hard, interesting and miraculous.
One of the first super things that we had the opportunity to do is to have a lesson in Japanese! ahah ok well to explain a little more there's this Japanese man who has been coming to our English practices named Ti-Pay and he's basically just the funniest person, so nice. He doesn't know much English and he doesn't know Russian so we got a Japanese Book of Mormon for him and since Sister Woolley had been telling me that her best friend has already been serving a year in the Tokyo mission I thought it would be so cool if we could skype them for a lesson with Ti-pay so we planned to meet this week all together and we had a lesson. The funny and crazy thing is we found out a couple days before that he actually had to leave Poltava that day because he was on his 88th day of a 90 day visa and now he's in Georgia but the sisters in Japan have his email and will hopefully continue to teach him through Skype because he really liked it and is still super interested. He had already read 15 pages of the Book of Mormon and the sisters got to explain it more to him in Japanese, he was so happy to talk to them. It was such a neat experience to be there and watch them teach him and bear testimony and bit to him in english about how I know God is real. It was a miracle that we got to start his journey in the gospel before he left.
Craziness of exchanges!! So once a transfer we have to do exchanges with the STL's right, and since our STL's are in Kharkov we had to go all the way there for a day so we left thursday night but uh oh, we actually took the wrong trolley bus that took us to the wrong train station, so we missed our train. We decided to just get tickets for the train at this station and they were way cheaper, we didn't know why. But then we got on the older looking train to find it's one of those over night ones! When we walked in it, it was so weird cause there were just babushkas and children on beds where seats would be, with pillows and sheets, it kind of felt like walking into a very small homeless shelter or something ahah. Anyway so that was an interesting experience! I actually have been wanting to try going on one of those trains so yay!
Exchanges were fun, I was with sister Savran again but I was fine with that:D we went creative contacting and built some snowmen and a lady I asked to help actually did and it was super cool! We also met some super nice Vietnamese girls ,who have actually lived here for most of their lives, and they wanted us to go get hot chocolate with them so we did. Also got to see a bunch of member friends from Khakov! It was a good day.
The next morning we left early and got a bus home because there were no trains that went at a convenient time. And.. we got in a bus crash! yeah. But don't worry we and all of the people were completely fine. It was pretty scary though! We were just studying when our driver honks the horn and then something (probably a car we didn't even see ) rams into the side of us and then there was some scary swerving where we thought we might flip but the driver got control and we stopped. It's ok because I know we have angels watching over us. We just had to wait like 2 hours for another bus to come but cool story eh?
So that Saturday we had a meeting set up with this seriously elect lady but she canceled:/ and we were pretty bummed but then we had a " movie night" planned where we watched the "Joseph Smith the Prophet of the Restoration" movie -which is seriously such an amazing movie and seeing all what Joseph Smith went through just always reaffirms my testimony that there was no way that he was not a prophet of God. We met a girl named Tanya there who the elders invited from English and she said she really liked it, we talked to her for a bit and I asked her if she was free to come to church the next morning, she said she wouldn't promise anything but we got her number and gave her a Book of Mormon. The next morning she came for all of sacrament meeting! She told Sister Woolley that she woke up early this morning and decided to start reading the Book of Mormon, she read the intro, then she felt like coming to church, so she came! We then had a lesson with her in second hour and explained the Book of Mormon to her more. Sister Woolley asked if she believed that Joseph Smith really did see Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and she said yes! She said she likes the Book of Mormon and she prayed at the end of the lesson. Unfortunately she had to rush to work but we plan to meet this week and teach her more. It was such a miracle.
Good things are happening and the Lord's work is going forth! I love being able to serve Him by being an instrument in His hands:)
Much love,
Sister Horne
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| Snowman contacting |
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| Vietnamese contacts |
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| Damage to the bus on the way back home. |
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| Sleeping compartments on the train. |
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| Teaching our Japanese contact with help from Sister Missionaries in Japan via Skype. |
Monday 5 February 2018
Busy bees
Helloooo!
Sorry didn't write last week, but really there are a lot of good things happening here in Poltava! We're being kept really busy and we have lots of really cool friends who we're trying to be bold and share the gospel with. Sometimes the only problem is here that most people are just SO busy, like they're working all the time or studying but we have lots of good things planned for this week.
One thing, from first hand experience I can tell you how great of a feeling it is to share what you know to be true, what's important to you and what has brought joy into your life with your friends, acquaintances and even strangers. So I challenge you all to do that this week, it can just be something small but if it comes from your heart and if it is truth then the Holy Ghost will back you up!
Love you all!
Btw, if you have any questions or suggestions on what to put in these weekly posts to make them more interesting or something feel free to tell me!! haha
Have a great week, пока
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Dominiks really good cookies, a company Poltava is famous for
a cute young woman in our branch who had the funniest cat
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