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It's been a pretty fun week. We went up to Kiev this week and it was a blast. We woke up early wednesday morning and flew around 7:00am (we didn't forget our passports this time) and we spent most of the day running errands for people and GOING TO THE TEMPLE. It was so great. The temple is so great. Man. Also when is Saratoga going to get a temple? I'm already hyped for it to come.
We spent the night with Elder Dumbrell and Catlitt and we had a good time. We bought some kontiki and slammed it up.
We had MLC thursday and discussed things about the mission and how we can be more effective. We were supposed to fly home that night and we got through the airport when they canceled the flight on us due to some mad fog that was in Chisinau.... sooo we got to spent all day friday as well and this time we got to room with Elder Dumbrell, Catlitt, Elder Lindsey and Rosenkrantz. It was so rad. We also got to get a sneak peak of our zone conference which was fun. 
Friday night we got on the plane and we were about to leave when the pilot was like "hey guys so we still have fog in chisinau so we're gonna wait 30 minutes" (30 minutes pass by) "alright so the weather is still bad so we're waiting another 30 minutes" (50 minutes later) "okay I think we're good to go so we'll leave in 20 minutes." 
It was fun. We met some cool people from Israel and a Ukrainian model so that was also fun. 
We finally got back into our country on Saturday around midnight and got back into the swing of things. We had a good church meeting and things here are swell. I love you guys!
Go read King Benjamin's speech!
I mean if you want
to gain spiritual knowledge and peace

-Elder Whiting









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