Monday, August 18, 2008

Ok, something silly - yes, for the first time ever I purchased skittles and starbursts. Ok, sour skittles are not sour, just fruity, and starbursts are in Russian but are just fine. So you get a pic. :) We were in the center of Kiev for lunch with a missionary that had a birthday. His mom paid for us to all have lunch. On the way you can see there was a man that looked like a statue, so I took a pic, dropped a small amount of money, then got a pic with him. It was fun. He was moving so slow. It made it fun to watch.

One thing that was cool that happened this week - we have an investigator that works in a rinok (or bazaar) and we stoped by on our way out. It was hot and this man we did not know says in Russian as we walk by, "Remember Ukraine," and he sprays us in the face a few times with water. We took it fine, said thank you, and walked away with smiles, because it was hot and it felt good. So just like that everybody saw that we took it without a problem. :) I was happy...it was dang hot!

My companion is SO cool. One day it was late and we were on our way home and we passed by some grandmas selling flowers. So he stops, goes back, and buys some. Then he is like, "What do I do with these?", and then he goes and starts handing them to all these older ladies on the street. It was really nice. I wanted to do that on Woman's Day, but I was too busy, but hey, it goes to show you can do it whenever you feel like. :)

In the work this week -we had Zone Conference and it was amazing. We have 2 people with baptismal commitments. We will see how they go. They are some amazing men. Other than that I am healthy and happy to serve. Talk to you next week.

З любовю, Старійшина Гокансон
With love, Elder Hokanson

He also sent this random video. It's dark for the first part and you can only hear his voice (the lights are off). He is so random! I love him! ~h