Elder Austin Whiting

Hey everyone it's been a pretty exciting week to say the least I am now in Kiev and it's been pretty crazy so far there are tons and tons of soviet blocks everywhere so that's been cool. It's a huge city so it takes us a while to get everywhere.  Tuesday we said goodbye to everyone and it was my last day in Moldova. I flew out wednesday morning and said goodbye to people at the airport and it was really sad.  I flew into Kiev that morning and instantly took a taxi to the temple building. The guys driving was pretty young and played russian rap the whole time haha. Also he spoke some crazy Surzhyk (mix between russian and ukrainian) so I didn't understand anything. A lot of people speak Ukrainian here so it's pretty crazy. I met my companions on wednesday and they're so great we've been having a good time. There's Elder Day and Elder Prolo. Elder Day is from Lehi, Utah and lives by the rodeo so that's pretty crazy that we live so close a...

So it's been a crazy week. To start off we found out transfers this week and I found out that I am going to Ukraine! It's really weird for me because I've been living in Moldova for a year and a half so it's almost like leaving home again. It's been bittersweet but I'm also excited to see what the future has in store. I'm going to Nova Darnytsia which is the south-eastern part of the capital Kiev. I'm super excited and I also get to train which is going to be way fun. I'll be in a trio training so it'll be interesting to see how that works out. We've had some fun stuff this week including: 1) Johnny got baptized this week and it was a huge miracle! I got to teach him a couple times and it's awesome to see the change that he's made.  2) I think that I probably made the worst language mistake of my life. I was translating a talk for Elder Caron during the baptism and during his talk he talked about a scout group that went to go ...