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 Ukrainian man who played some sweet songs on the guitar and sang a Russian, American, and Ukrainian song. 
-My current favorite song to listen to right now as a missionary is Claire De Lune by Debussy. Idk what it is but it's so good.
-It's already May how weird is that
-We had our third Persian Party in a row on Saturday and we've been trying to teach our Iranian investigators who are literally the nicest people in the world.
-I found a new Russian phrase that I love and it means "Bayonet to me in the adam's apple" 
-We had an exchange with the zone leaders in center Kiev which is so much cooler than our area haha. Man they have a sweet area and we contacted in a beautiful park. Lots of foreigners too. We met this crazy italian guy who had a sweet beard and was trying to flirt with every girl he saw. Good times. 
That's pretty much it. Earlier today we went and visited a WW2 museum here in Kiev and it was pretty eye opening to the hard times that the Ukrainians had during past times. It definitely made me very grateful for everything that I have in my life. I really think that we all have SO MUCH to be grateful for in our lives so we should always remember how merciful our Heavenly Father is to us in our days if we will remember Him. 

So let's remember Him! 

Love you all!

-Старейшина Уайтинг





































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