The Adventures of Elder Hokanson

Sep 26
Well, lets see, this week - not too much going on. I had another round of Zone Conferences and a Western Ukraine Conference with the Branches in Western Ukraine. Both conferences were in Lviv. We took a train to Lviv. It left at 12:30 am & got there at about 8:10 am. We did not sleep well and the coupets are way too small. Then we grabbed an express marshrootka (micro bus) from Lviv to Ivano-Frankivsk that took 2 hours. We got home at about 9:30 pm, then the next day we grabbed a marshrootka to Lviv again at about 5:30 am and got there at about 8am. Then we left later at about 3pm and got home at about 6pm and we were beat. The next day we went to a selo (village) and dug up potatoes for a member's mom. That's hard work. The Conference was great though...there was an Area Seventy from Moskva (Moscow Russia)...not sure on English spelling anymore. Ukrainian is spelled the same way it sounds. English is hard now. We have a baptism date with an investigator. He has a few things we need to work on, but he will be ready for baptism on the 13th. The sister missionaries in our area have 2 people on date for the 13th. One looks like she will be baptized for sure, the other is a maybe. I don't know her though, so who knows. Other then that it has been really really foggy in the mornings. I cant even see the other apartment buildings that are maybe 20 yards from ours, and at night every selo/village around us is burning everything that they don't need after the harvest and it's just full of smoke everywhere and we smell like smoke every evening. It is thick like fog. Other then that I don't have much news so I will talk to you next week! I love you all!
-Elder Hokanson