My Ukraine Dnepro Mission: 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