Hello, everyone!!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! One little game I woulda brought up at the table if I were home with my family is the game, "I love you because" 😂. You know, like from the scene they play in "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid?" It's absolutely hilarious 😂. Pretty much we will make some funny compliment, and then the person you compliment gets to go, but we would quickly say... "OKAY, NOW DO ME," right after we had just given the compliment 😂😂. You will just have to attend a Wilde family Thanksgiving or other occasion where it is played to completely understand 😂. But in all seriousness... I hope you did tell each other what you are grateful for!! And if you haven't... it's not too late!! haha.
From the last time I sent an email, we had two exchanges!! My first exchange was with Elder Molar!! We contacted, went and taught English to people, and had a game night!! Very fun time!! We, also, got to celebrate Elder Molar's Birthday!! I hid a bunch of balloons in his closet so that when he opened it, they all come falling out haha. We played a bunch of games and had some food. It was fun!!
The next day, I had my exchange with Elder Glass!! Elder Glass and I are both still in training, so it was so cool to be on an exchange where we both have only been out a transfer!! I don't think that's a very common thing haha. BUT MAN, WE GOT TO WORK!! We decided to hit out in an area in the complete boonies!! It was an area that is rarely touched!! We contacted for about four hours, and handed out five Books of Mormon!! The area was full of just run down houses, it was so humbling and so cool. We actually started getting followed by a dog in one of the neighborhoods, too, so that was fun haha.
Elder Wilde faces his first portable toilet in Ukraine. What an experience!
That same day, Elder Glass and I absolutely pounded food haha. We had six kontik each, which I could not finish lol, some vareniki, and khachapuri, WHICH IS SO GOOD AHHH. We had walked so much that day because the area was pretty far, so we had just been so exhausted we wanted some warm food, and a lot of it lol. (Although the kontik aren't warm, they are an essential tradition lol).
Oh, I also drank out of a water pump in one of the neighborhoods haha. It was so cold. The thing is, it didn't come out in steady streams, just in big bursts, so I hardly could get any in my mouth and It got all over me 😂.
OH, ALSO ELDER WILLIAMS AND I STREET CONTACTED A FAMILY!! I say that is so exciting because it's so hard contacting families!! Either the mom or dad doesn't want to listen, or both, so they end up walking away lol. But we talked to this family for like 10 min!! It was AWESOME!! They said they would come to church and English practice, so I'm really praying that they do!!
EVERYONE!! Light the World is here!! I love so much what our church does during Christmas time. We have such an amazing opportunity to do charity during the Christmas season, and our church reminds us of it each and everyday.
Moroni 7:45 reads - "And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things".
Let us have charity, for charity is the pure love of Christ. I invite you all to participate in Light the World this year! I have provided many links down below, that can help you find out more, and see what kind of things you can do!! I know that through charity we can not only help ourselves grow closer and feel the love of Christ, but more importantly, help the people around us. I am so thankful for charity. It is how I feel most connected to my Savior, hands down. Serving others is a gift. Strive to serve people this month, and then every single month. Make it second nature. Through charity, blessings will come. Endless amounts of them.
Here is the link to Light the World https://www.comeuntochrist.org/light-the-world
These are some of my favorite videos from it:
Everyone download this!! They will send you updates/reminders/ideas everyday this month for a single, simple, act of service you can do each day!!
I would also invite you all to watch this video. It touched my heart. It is called, "You never know." Sometimes we go throughout the day worrying that we aren't being the best we can, we aren't doing enough, we aren't this, we aren't that, we shoulda done this instead of that!! But the truth is... You never know how much good you do sometimes. I promise you that each and everyone of you have the power to uplift souls, and sometimes you may not even recognize it, but you are doing to each and every day.
Love you all, go and serve!!
Elder Wilde
PS the picture of the sign is because that is the road sign to Rostov!!
Also, I dropped my kulinichi on the ground so that was sad but pretty funny lol.
I found my first Ukraine beetle. Luckily, it was already dead!
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