Baby's first snowman

HELLO
Phew. so I think finally spring is coming! That's basically just from yesterday and today though but apparently this next week too! Woohoo just in time for Easter and my birthday:)

Even though spring showed up one thing we finally did this week was make a snowman! It was Sister Woolley's first snowman so that was exciting. Unfortunately only a few people stopped to help us but they were super cool. One the little boy helped us but he had an attention span of 2 minutes and then ran away so then we saw the dad chasing after him for the next while. Hahaha but hopefully he'll come to English practice.
We met with our investigator Natasha again (she's canceled on us like 5 times in the past few weeks ) which was good because we got to start teaching her the Plan of Salvation which really amazed her and she kept asking questions at the beginning and we were like "this plan answers all your questions, we will cover that in just a little bit", haha. She really liked it and she planned to meet with us twice this week so we are hopeful she will start to progress more.

We also met Tonya's dad and Olga's husband!! His name is Jenya and he's super cool and nice (he even gave us a ride home from English practice in their car! Although we didn't get to teach him yet,Tonya (15 year old ) is the absolute best and she came to church yesterday!! She's also read almost half 1 Nephi already and all the other chapters we gave her:))

In a couple weeks they're having a big Easter concert in Kharkov and the District President asked me to sing a couple of songs so we had to go up there for a practice Saturday. It was really good to see the Sisters there again though and we got to go out for dinner with them before we left and it's super sad because then I officially said bye to sister Savran for a long time but I'm sure I'll see her again in the future.
Seriously I can't believe that it's the last week before my last transfer! :O Sister Woolley and I are praying we stay together.

HEY. Conference is this weekend!!!!! You do not know how freaking SO EXCITED I am for conference everyone! So weird it will be my last one as a missionary and I know it will be so good because every time I go and listen/watch conference and when I really try to open my heart and mind to the messages, I am always inspired and encouraged and refreshed. It truly is a special time where the Lord speaks directly to us through His chosen servants. Like Elder Anderson promised last conference if we listen to what the spirit says to us during conference then we will receive answers to our prayers. And this conference will definitely be a pretty special one with the sustaining of our new Prophet and apostles. Anyone who is unsure about or wondering if President Russel M. Nelson is really called of God can watch conference with that question and if asked in faith you can receive a personal witness from the Spirit for yourself. :) I have already received a witness that He is the Prophet on the earth today but I know will be able to feel that again when I watch conference. And so that's my challenge for you all:)) God loves us so He speaks to us all today, just as in times of old, through a living prophet:) I have to wait another week but y'all can see it this weekend at lds.org

ok that's all:)

love y'all
Sister Horne

UNO and flu

Apparently  there is a flu going around. We had a lot of cancellations this week because of sicknesses and other, but we did have a really good lesson with Olga on the plan of salvation and we planned to get them on date Saturday but she was sick. We hope to be meeting her husband this week. On Tuesday we gave out 3 books of Mormon in the same hour. As we were explaining the book to this one girl we gave it to,  and we asked her if she would be interested in meeting and learning more she said;" how about tomorrow? So we were like ok! But unfortunately she didn't show up, even when she said she was on her way.. We also met a nice girl who we played UNO with us on the Freshline (Ukrainian subway basically ) and we taught her the restoration. Unfortunately she feels like God didn't answer her  prayer one time when she asked if her grandma could live and now she believes only in "love ". So she said she wouldn't pray about the Book of Mormon or learn more but she still wanted to be our friends. Hopefully sometime in the future she will be able to realize that Heavenly Father truly does love her and wants to speak to us, his children, and that he also knows us better then we know our selves and he knows when and how to answer us and we need to grow and progress, even when it's hard. It's kinda like I get the tiniest glimpse of what it's like to be a parent right now as I'm training and I want so much to make things easier for Sister Woolley when it comes to things she needs to learn how to do. It may seem like it's better for them when it's easier but it's actually only taking away the opportunity for them to grow. So that's something I already have a hard time doing even when I have that knowledge so I can't imagine how hard it must be for our Heavenly Father when he sees his children suffering but it just shows how deep and infinite his love is for us because he cares so much more that we grow from these experiences and even though they're hard, he sees our potential and is rooting for us to push a little farther so that we can grow into the people he knows we can be.
To update about Tanya our past investigator who was on date, she has not answered us in a few weeks:( but keep praying she'll come around one day and realize the happiness the gospel brings and remember what she felt. Rejection is a part of missionary work and it makes sense because we are representatives of Jesus Christ and when Christ was on the earth he was rejected everyday, til the end. It hurts for a bit then feels good cause that means we're doing His work.

Love you all,

Have a good week!

PS: I feel for y'all in Calgary wanting spring to come, still winter over here too! hahah hopefully we'll have some sun for Easter:)

Women's Day and Kharkov chillin

What's up everyone

Time is flying by over here, I mean we actually were fully expecting this week to fly by because of the time we would be in kharkov but definitely did! Felt like it just started and now it's already done. But it was a good one. 

The week started off skating all over the streets! haha it seriously was just an ice rink outside sooo slippery. Poor Sister Woolley took a couple of spills but it's all good now, actually now it's super wet, with puddles everywhere ahah but c'est la vie en hiver 

Thursday was Women's day and that's a huge thing here, it's like their mother's day but bigger so we decided to wrap Books of Mormon again! This time we went and handed them out as a district and everyone loves to be congratulated and given gifts so it went pretty well considering that like 20 more people have a Book of Mormon now! woot woot, flooding the world:) 

Zone conference was awesome as always. We had tacos and we helped the STL's hand make tortillas the night before, which was kinda crazy but they ended up delicious so worth it aha. Also I sang 3 times.. and all of the songs were named "Peace in Christ" hahaha. ok 2 times I sang the same song, one time just for this seperate lunch we had as just sisters and then President asked me if I could sing it to the whole zone also. The other time was the youth theme for this year and it's a different song just named the same. Obviously I really like this principle ;)

 https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2018-peace-in-christ?lang=eng

We also stayed the next day for exchanges with the STL's which was good. I was with Sis. Day who is Sister Spicer's "baby" and she's exactly like her haha it's awesome. It was sad because it will probably be the last time I see Sister Savran for a long time since she's going home to Moldova at the end of this transfer! I cried so much when she gave her last testimony in Zone conference. I love her so much. So amazing to see how much she's grown. Also super weird that next zone conference... that will be me. :0

Anyway, have a chill week. Remember who you are : children of a KING :)

Love,

Sister Horne

Dumped with snow!

Heeeeey

So not much new over here except we got a pretty big dump of SNOW!! woohoo reminds me of home actually:) Sister Woolley is not the biggest fan of it haha but we took pics in the big snowstorm. (my sd card's being weird though) Unfortunately it did effect the amount of people coming to English class and church etc. 

BUT it didn't stop these two AMAZING women ( a mom and her 15 year old daughter ) from coming. The mom's name is Olga and the daughter Tanya. We invited them to this little "girls night" Sister Woolley and I planned for Saturday night and they came and met some of our awesome members. Then they invited us over yesterday and she fed us the most delicious dinner and then we taught them about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and they said they would read the Book of Mormon and pray about it so we're super excited:))) 

We also had a sweet opportunity to give a couple of Books of Mormon to the ladies at the library we want to start helping at and testify of it's power to them. So just pray that these people (really everyone ) will read and pray about the Book of Mormon because I know that is truly the "tool of the harvest" , it's what will help them know of the truth of the restored gospel.

This next week should be fun, Women's day is coming up and we're going to be in Kharkov for like half of it:)

Have an awesome week and eat some vereniki (perogies):)

-Sister Horne