Let's talk about my adventure yesterday! Well you see, we had train tickets coming in to be delivered to us on a train. We had no idea where the train was going, just that it would be in Ivano at 6:40am. Ok, so we set alarms for 5:30 so we could get there on time. Yeah...we hit snooze. Well my comp did, then he set another alarm and said we would take a taxi to get there. Ok yeah, his alarm went off, but he did not get up...great! So I am in bed, my I-Pod is set to go off at 6:25am with church music, it starts singing, I have a thought, "You're not going to make it!" I jump out of bed and said, "ELDER, WHAT TIME IS IT!?!" I look at the clock, its 6:25. We rush getting dressed, we call 3 taxi companies...they will take a long time to get to us. They say 10-15 mins, it snowed a lot last night they said. I get a thought, "Put on your yaktrax so you don’t slip in the ice and snow," but then I think I don’t have time. Bad idea. Well, the phone rings, we are almost ready, they say a taxi is pulling up, so we take off. My comp started running down the stairwell and I am locking all 3 locks. I run down and I barely see my comp, he is running to find the taxi. I take off and as I see him around the corner there is a lot of ice and snow on the ground. Yeah, I slip slide about 6 feet on the ground. It hurt! Then I got up, start running and my stuff fell out of my pocket, some documents and stuff, nothing too important, but I didn't notice, so I run to the taxi, get in, there is ice all over the city. We are rushing to the train station and our driver is sliding around corners and stuff...fun!! Finally we get to the train station, my comp jumps out of the taxi, almost slips and falls on his face (cobblestone is not fun when its icy), so now I have to pay the driver. I cant see my comp, but I know where he is going. On the intercom they annouce that due to the snow the train is late! Yeah, 2 mins, big deal. So we see the train pulling in, we are running to the train car with the person that has our tickets (you're not allowed to send stuff on trains, but its one of the best ways to send things in Ukraine). We find the person, grab the tickets and then start our walk home. Yeah, in my slip and fall I lost some things in my pockets, but I was able to get most of it, and my pants now have a quarter sized hole in the left leg. You see a sidewalk here is not always smooth, but bumpy and rocky in some areas, so yeah my leg is sore and my pants have a hole. I lost a few things, but we saw a few cool things on the way.
I am going into Kiev today and leaving in 5 hours or so and will be on a 12 hour train ride. I love my train rides. I'm getting transferred...I have no idea where I am going. I hope they send me to Lutsk. The other 2 elders from my MTC District are there and that would be really cool. I was told I am staying out West, so the only places I could be going are Lutsk, Hrivna, Lviv, and Chernivtsi. Those are the only cities that have elders moving out west that I know about.
I was up until about 4am last night packing my stuff. I did not get to start until last night. It's all ready to go. All I can think about right now is that I am going to a new area, getting a new comp, and getting a new branch, but it can't get harder than here in Ivano...it's hard here for many reasons.
Christmas is coming up soon! I am missing Christmas dinner, but I get a phone call next month! I will have to send info from my next area.
Pics this week - walking in the snow with 2 investigators (my comp and one of the sisters), one pic looks like I am mad...it was just after the morning adventure, we were walking home because we did not want another taxi (I mean my comp did make us late!), a thing that they plow the streets and then sweep them with - is weird - there's a small casino behind it, a pic of the place where I fell and lost my stuff and then got back up and ran to the taxi (the foot prints through the snow just to the left of the tree going straight are when I was running), the next is the class in the selo where I teach English to kids once every 2 weeks. Lots of really cool kids there.
So, that’s it for today. I love you all and talk to you next week with a update of where I am and who I am with!
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