Dear Everyone!
Well, it has come to our time!! We are quarantined now!! I won't highlight it too much just because I know how much it has already been talked about all over the world, and how it's already happening to pretty much everyone around the world haha. But for an overview, we have been quarantined for about four days now, and we don't know for how much longer we will be!! My guess is at least two weeks minimum!!
Our Mission President put some money into our accounts to go and buy up enough food storage for the meantime. I honestly hope we bought enough food (or if we have enough, I feel like our tasty food is just going to run out fast lol)
(I'm honestly more nervous about running short on toilet paper, just because I need to use it to blow my nose so much lol). It's hard because I love to snack when at home, so I'm really pushing myself here not to 😂. However, it's nice that we get to cook at home now!! Before, we couldn't really cook at home just because our contacting area was in the opposite area of our home.
Seeing, also, that Ukraine is closing its borders this week, missionaries who were going home this transfer, got quickly shipped out on Saturday morning. Apparently, Ukraine has like only one confirmed case of the virus, but that's also because Ukraine can't afford or doesn't have enough tests for the virus. However, all will be well!! I'm not overall worried. The only thing I'm worried about is slowly losing my mind being inside each day with limited things to do. It's not like when I was at home and could just watch, "The Office" five times through in one sitting😅😂. Instead, we resort to re-watching church videos like the Safety Zone (it gets entertaining as sad as that sounds 😂), and now each Friday the new Book of Mormon videos!! Woo!!
In the meantime, we have to sit in our house. Oh how fun it is to be staring at a brick wall through our window all day!!😂
However, during quarantine I have been able to study (Russian especially) a lot more, and it's already helped so much!! I'm really trying to get the grammar down so I can speak with it confidently. I have started highlighting each case each time I see it as I read, distinguishing which is which. It's actually quite entertaining and looks really cool!! I'll attach a picture haha. I use a different color to highlight each case. Along with that, I also just read out of Penguin (one of our grammar books).
Also, because we are quarantined, our version of missionary work has been modified!! What we do now is call our members/interested people, via telephone, and share spiritual thoughts with them!! Thus far, we have only had lessons with our members. However, I have absolutely loved this opportunity!! It has been so fun and honestly, I have felt the Spirit each time we have had the opportunity to share a message with our members through the phone. They are always so happy to talk to us, and so appreciative. We have honestly been more connected with our members more than ever before!! It's way cool!!
Moving on, this week we had the coolest opportunity to hear from Brother Welch!! Brother Welch served in Germany when he was a missionary, and on his mission discovered CHIASMUS. I believe he has a documentary called, "Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon." I highly encourage you all to go watch it. The things he shared with us were seriously amazing. Not to mention, listening to him explain parts of the Book of Mormon in correlation to each other was seriously insane. He knows that book like the back of his hand. Anyways, go watch the video. It'll explain it all way better than I can. LEGIT WATCH IT. It goes even more so to prove the realness and truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. We were all shook by the end of the call with him haha.
Earlier this week, we had the amazing opportunity to have Zone Conference!! It was so awesome, as usual!! We took some time to study the conversion graphs of other countries to see the reason of such rapid growth of conversions to our church in countries like Mexico and Brazil, for example. Our president explained that third generation families are one of the biggest impacts of these explosions and rises in the church. That's why the youth of our church are so important!! Many third generation families are forming here in Ukraine, showing a bright future for our growth here!
Another topic that we focused a lot of our time on was commitment. At conference, we all had the opportunity to share a scripture about commitment along with an experience or story about commitment. I chose to share a scripture about the Savior's Atonement. I explained how although our Savior suffered on earth during his ministry, going through so many trials, he never gave in.
He never gave in to the adversary, no matter how much he was tempted. He continued in a straight path, teaching, healing, and uplifting. And then finally, when it came to the Savior's Atonement, undoubtedly the hardest part of his earthly ministry, both mentally and physically, he didn't give in. At ANY point, our Savior could have jumped ship, but instead, he held onto us. He was committed to us. And because he was committed to us, we can be committed to him. I explained that when people stay true to their commitments, it then allows and helps others to keep their own commitments as well!! It all goes around!! I have seen examples of this throughout my life. Some of which happen to be very personal to me. I encourage you all to stay true and hold strongly to your commitments. I can promise you that when you do, you will not only lead yourself to success, but perhaps more importantly, others to success as well.
I pray for all of your safety during these unique times, and of course, continue to love you all!!
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P.S. ---- Feel free to hit me up these couple weeks with emails. I got lots of spare time and it would truly help 😂❤. And seeing as that I got loads of free time, I will be better at responding)))))
Update on the Bug Condition from Elder Wilde: "Yes, these roly-polys are the worse! They are still all over and crawling around! Not to mention, I have seen a few spiders, and that's where I cross the line!! It's starting to get a lot warmer here recently, and we didn't have an overall bad winter."
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