Elder Austin Whiting

Hey everyone  Oh man it's been a fun week. Also we contacted pretty much all day every day but for some reason it was really fun? Also Elder Day got wrecked with a stomach bug and we've started to get colds but we've still been going out and getting work done.  We actually had people come to church this sunday! So that was sweet. Church is nice. I got to translate @ church and man my translating is so trash haha. It's really fun though. Something cool that happened is we prayed really hard to find a less-active member one day and we went out to some addresses to find them and on our way we stopped a guy and tried to talk to him and he was like "oh yeah i actually used to go to your church" and then we found out more and it turns out he was baptized a while ago and even had the priesthood at some point so that was so cool and we invited him to come back to church. So miracles do actually happen it was sweet. Now that summer is coming around everyone dec...

Well I now have officially less than a month left on a mission so that's weird. I would say I have a healthy amount of trunkiness. But you better believe that I'm still grinding every day.  It's been a hype week. I'll just get into the interesting things: -My companion had interviews this past week and while we were waiting at President's house Sister Kumferman pulls out ticket to ride and we had a good old bonding time. The Kumfermans are literally the best and I'm so sad that I didn't have an interview with him this time around. I love them so much. -That night was crazy and we ended up joining a Gypsy caravan. We were walking down a creepy alleyway and next thing we know we're surrounded by gypsies and they're speaking their weird gypsy tongue. We quickly escaped and went across some railroad tracks but there was a very long train on the tracks that was stopped and so we were like "dang" and so we climbed underneath the train to ge...

Hey everyone  Something cool that just happened is we were chilling in center Kiev when we get a call and hey it turns out there were some other missionaries who were гулять-ing in center. And then all of the sudden I hear "aye Whiting!" And Nichols from Moldova comes out of nowhere and so that was pretty insane. He came to Kiev for the week to go to the temple so I get to see a bunch of people from Moldova this week.  Honestly it was a rough week haha. The weather has been raining off and on so it's been annoying to plan and we got canceled on almost every day. Just a rough week for work but we're still working hard and trying to figure out what we can do better. This next week will be great though because we have a temple trip, interviews, and my LAST zone conference how insane is that.  My trainer came to Kiev this week and we had a good time catching up and doing some role plays to help us with our lessons and contacting. It was way fun though and we had a b...

It's been a good week. We ate at a couple member's houses this week and MAN I love the people here. They are so incredibly kind and are willing to give you so much. They feed us the best food ever it's the best. My taste in food has definitely changed as well, I used to be a bit picky with foods but now I literally eat everything haha. For example I used to hate pickles and could never eat them but now I love them and can eat them like carrots it's weird. Ukrainians definitely have the best kitchen haha.  Other than that it's been filled with normal missionary things. Our days mostly consist of lessons, contacting, eating, and studying so our schedules are filled with all of these things in different orders.  Here are some fun/random things from the week: -We spent wednesday morning deep-cleaning our apartment with our landlord because it hadn't been cleaned well in like 6 years and it was nasty. -One of the members who fed us is this super old nice Ukra...