Many hands make light work.

We invited the student council to come for Sunday dinner after District Conference a couple of weeks ago. We filled our large crock pot with chicken, potatoes and carrots before we left for church. We thought we would feed about 10 including ourselves. As we left from our student council meeting we found 4 more youth waiting at the door. We learned that the invitation for dinner got passed around in a manner of about 3 minutes to them as well. We said great! By the time we got home we had a few more join us adding up to 18 including ourselves for dinner. I hoped that the parable of the fishes and the loaves of bread would happen to this meal as well. We boiled a few more potatoes and a few more pieces of chicken. The youth helped make a cake and homemade applesauce. I worried about the food not tasting as good as I like it to taste, but they were all happy to be their with each other and share in our little feast. It was awesome!

English Family Home Evening

Every week we have an English Family Home Evening on Thursday Nights. The Sister Missionaries are very good to invite investigators that want to practice English to it. Starting from the left is our Sister Missionary from Russian, Sister LoVonva, Sister Watts, one of our Ukranian youth and our Russian Tutor, The girlin the red sweater and on the far right are cousin, and investigators. The one inbetween them is our Sister Howell from Joseph Utah. Last week we had a young man from Morroco, raised a Muslem. He is going to school here, speaks very little Russian, but does pretty good with English. We taught a lesson on the first article of faith. It is an awesome experience for us to have investigators in our and home and teach them what we believe it.

Sister Haymond the sister missionary in the middle was transfered to Donestk. Before she left Elder Bailey and myself went shopping with her for a few souveniers. She bought these Russian Shopk's, 2 for two sisters in Donestk and 1 for her dad and 2more for someone else in her family. We had to model them of course. This is in front of our apartment building on our street called Myelneekova. Every missionary takes home a Russian hat from here, actually two or three.