ALRIGHT hey everyone how's it going? Everything here in Chisinau is super good thanks for asking. This week was crazy hard for me but also crazy awesome with some really cool miracles.

So to explain the Korea thing.... A girl in the ward, her name is Nina, I've mentioned her a couple times but she got her Mission call this week and she has been dying to go to Korea so I guessed that she would go to Korea and what do you know. Korea Seoul Mission. Kinda bummed it's not the Seoul South mission to meet my boy Elder Tippetts but it's pretty sick that I now know people in almost every Korea mission. 
내 한국인들에게 큰 소리로 외치다. (closest I could get to a shoutout) 

Another super tight thing this week was that our investigator Arif now has a baptimal date for Jan 6!!!!!!!! We are super pumped for him. He's such a stud. The power of fasting and prayer is so real.

We did more service this week which is my absolute favorite thing now. We helped at Nina's house this week and I made sure to take more pictures this time so you're all welcome. Elder Dumbrell was crazy for finding all of the walnuts all over the yard haha whatta squirrel. 

Our english class loves us for some reason and some of the students bring us snacks and stuff sometimes so it's pretty fun. I pretty much just mess around and tell stories in english and they love it haha. 

We found out a couple days ago that our landlord's husband died almost a month ago and it hit me pretty hard. We gave this guy a blessing a long time ago but the artheritis was bringing him too much pain and he was paralyzed. He was only around 60 too. We visited her yesterday and brought her some candy and she started crying while we were there and my heart just went out to her. It made me just want to do anything to help her out. 

I actually wanted to write a little bit about the Atonement and how much it has changed everything in my life. I believe if there's anything I have a rock solid testimony on, it's the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I know that if you are going through anything difficult then the Atonement of Christ can help you bear this burden. Please never take it for granted. 

I love you all so much and I'm so grateful for all of you back home. 

-Старейшина Уайтинг

(p.s all the stuff that happened this week I'll explain more in the pictures email)



















-Elder Solov'iov and his love for cats
-OKAY FUNNIEST STORY-so this guy comes up to us after we walk out of the church and he is trying to sell us this cologne that we're 90% sure that he stole. He's being super super pushy with us and we tell him over and over that we're not interested but he keeps pushing and then suddenly the bottle slips out of his hands and shatters all over the floor and it was silent for a solid 5 seconds. Then he's like "well have a good day" and just walks away. It was probably the funniest thing ever. So we took a picture of the broken glass and cleaned it up after hahahahaha
-Here's my lil Russian notes during language study. We're slowly getting there.
-Royal Sandwiches are the best. Me and Elder Dumbrell always buy then when we find them and they're so bomb
-Pictures of service at Nina's. I put a flower over my ear and then everyone copied me(bunch of losers) and so it was so longer cool. But we took a pic. (apparently selfies are still super popular here) 
-There's this thing that Elder Walch bought this week and he thought it was going to be a chocolate bar but it looks like a brick of -well not chocolate and it tastes like sunflower seeds so it's really weird so he left this sign that says "free disappointment" over it
-I FINALLY HAD SUSHI THIS WEEK AND IT WAS SO GOOD
-Some classic Borch
-Took a pic with a guy dressed up as wine, classic Moldova
-Elder Solov'iov got this cookie from Ukraine and it's seriously the greatest thing ever. There's a hole on one end so you bite the opposite end and you use it as a straw to drink milk. Once you drink the milk you eat the cookie and the inside is all soft from the milk. So good.
-Ya boi guessed Korea

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