Happy Easters everyone
Христос воскрес!
Во истину воскрес!
It's been a real swell time down here in Nova D and we've been seeing some great things happen. First of all I'm exhausted because we've been putting in some work here and it's been nice. the weather has been gorgeous. Annnnd it was a pretty mild week honestly not too much to report on.
We had an persian party with some of our iranian friends and it was super good, we learned a little bit of persian as well. Amazing people. We did a whole lot of contacting this week and we got destroyed. Three days in a row we had one person eat up like an hour of our time. Time #1 was prideful orthodox guy who said that you can't feel the holy ghost? but was nice enough. Time #2 was super nice babushka who just told us story on story about how she met zelenskii and other random political things and time #3 was the worst conversation I've ever had on the street and honestly I should've handled it better but I got really mad haha here's basically how it went:
"Hey have you heard about this book"
"Yeah I know it's not true, anyways I'm a Christian
"Oh yeah we are too and how do you know that it's not true"
"I just know"
"Have you ever read it"
"No I don't need to"
"Okay so do you believe in the Bible"
"Yes"
"Cool we do too. How do you know that it's the word of God"
"I went to Israel and I saw artifacts"
...
And then we continued to talk for another 30 minutes and yeah it just made me sad because the Gospel is so good and honestly helps peoples lives but they're so prideful that they're not even willing to take a chance unless they have been to Israel and seen "artifacts" and I could go off on it for another email haha but I won't I just really love the Gospel and I love Christ and it makes me sad to see people who aren't willing to try and who tell me my testimony is wrong. 
But anyways onto happier things
We have been working with some great people who have some big barriers to cross in order to be baptised so we've just been praying hard and trying our best to help them come unto Christ.
I've been having a blast though and we've been seeing some miracles happen!
I love you all lots and I hope you have a good week

-Старейшина Уайтинг









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