Impromptu concert!!

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