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Another week here in Ukraine! I will first start out with we just heard this guy talking on the phone right next to our computers and he was speaking English so we asked where he is from and he is from Ireland picking up his wife he met on the internet..haha but he had to leave because he had to take the tv remote back to the house because he had put it into his pocket thinking it was his phone..haha good old old people. but it was good to hear English ha last night I tried borsh for the first time and it was actually not too bad, Elder Newey made it and it tasted like beets (dirt) but it wasn't too shabby. 

I would like to apologize for having to make my blog private, I just found out that the area presidency has asked that missionaries here make it private, so if you could mention that on FB and then put my email and my other address on there that would be fantastic.

 It was very good to hear from you guys on Christmas! Thank you so much for the Christmas presents you sent me they were all awesome. It didn't feel like Christmas too much though becasue there weren't tons of presents, music and decorations. And plus they celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January so no one else was celebrating ha but it was still a good day and it was good to reflect on what Christmas is about, the birth of our Savior and brother Jesus Christ.

We decided to do some secret santas for some people in our branch, so we went to some stores and while looking for stuff we came across some ties, so we bought some for them and some for us and it was like 12 ties and it cost 34 grieven so thats like a little more that 4 dollars for 12 ties, what an awesome deal haha so we were talking them to houses  yesterday and it is much harder to do secret santas here than it is in America becasue in America you just set it on their porch, ring the door bell and run, but here you have you have someone who lives there push a button to open a metal door then you have to ring a bell to another door and behind that door is 2-4 appartments which also have doors, so basically if a zombie appocolypes happened they would be safe behind all these locked metal doors, but anyway after we finally got in, after somone had opened the door and left we went in, but we got to the second door and no one answered and sometimes the doorbells dont work so we werent sure if it was working then a neighbor came out and opened that door so we were finally able to just leave the present infront of the door of the person who we were trying to give the gift to ha so it was a little more challenging than at home ha but it was still good that we gave some stuff to less actives and investigators. 

On Friday we went to a reception, a missionary who was here about 6 months ago came back and has been dating someone and will be married soon, hence the reception..anyway there was some dancing, that we as missionaries watched..haha and then there were like 20-30 people there and we sat around some make shift tables and had cake that was pretty good and that was it. 

A few days before that we taught this girls, who is getting married, family becasue he just got baptized not too long ago, and guess who baptized him..? his future son in law haha but we taught them and I led the lesson, well I guess it was more of a spiritual thought, we read from the Book of Mormon then we talked about it and it went pretty well actually.They are a really cool family though so it was nice to teach them.

And the last little bit I will add is we went tracting and we found this one old man and at first he said talk to my nieghbor and shut his door ha then we were still on his floor so when he came out to go somewhere he started talking to us and we invited him to church and he came yesterday! so that was really cool and he has read a little bit of the Book of Mormon and wants to meet with us so hopefully it works out! 

I love you all!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 

-Cтарейшина Витт