Merry Christmas from Ukraine

More than a full week down now here in Ukraine! again I would like to apologize in advance if my typing is a little off becasue of the Ukranian spell check. But it has been a good week even though it has been kinda crazy, so My companion is still in Bulgaria and the said it will take 7-14 business days,from today, for them to return..so we will see haha On Thursday the AP's came and I was with one and the other Elders in my zone were with the other, his name is Elder Stoker and from Vegas, so he has some funny stories, but he is cool and a awesome missionary.One really cool thing that happened when I was with him was we were teaching this man on the street and it was basically the whole first lesson and we totally could feel the spirit and you could see it in his eyes and in his face that he could too, but because he is Pravoslavnian he can not read books that have not been "okayed" or something, by their church leaders, so it kinda sucked that he didn't want to meet again but it was awesome we felt the Spirit way strong even on the busy streets.

It is funny when we were street contacting someone asked where we were from and we said America and he said "I can totally tell he is from America" haha but it is because most of the time I smile at people and such haha but I bought a shopka, a russian hat, so maybe I fit in a little better. Coke is really cheap here so we get that sometimes and it is actually kinda good, it is like a not of good as flavor as Dr. Pepper haha They eat a lot of mushrooms, I have had them on a few wraps that we have gotten, from off the streets, hopefully I dont get worms, haha, just kidding but I don't know if I will ever come to like them they are pretty gross haha One food, well I guess it is a treat, is Kontik, it is like a chocolate cracker type thing and you bite two ends and use it as a straw to suck milk out a bowl or soemthing, they are pretty dang good ha. I guess they have them in America or something like them called tim tams, so if you ever find any bite each end and give it a whirl haha

We taught a guy this week who said a long time ago he had a dream that his baptism as a baby wasn't valid and he needed to pray and he had that happen to him a few times then one time after he was done praying, like in the middle of the night, his sister called him, who is a member, and told him about our church. So he has been investigating and knows it is true but his wife is against the church and won't let him get baptized. We set a date with him and told him to pray to have Heavenly Father soften her heart so he can be baptized and we are praying too, so hopefully she will let him be baptized by the end of January. 

I guess quite a bit of people here in Lugansk have dreams about the missionaries and joining our church and looking for us and stuff, so it is pretty cool that I got to serve in this area first. 

We made some cookies for less active members and we keep our tortillas in our toaster oven, so those got burned and our cookies got burned so that didn't really work out haha but we made some more and delivered them to a family well a mom and her son and it was cool to show them my pictures of home, they really like that and they like pictures of big families, so it was cool to meet with them.

The weather here hasn't been too cold, and a lot of the snow has melted, so I guess global warming is working..haha the only part that gets cold is when the wind blows and yeah that is chilly haha I am still trying to get used to having the sun go down around 4 pm every day ha it is like 6pm and it feels like it should be 10 haha it is weird 

Oh yeah one last thing, there money is pretty colorful so it looks like monoply money haha but it is pretty cool and mostly everyhting here is pretty cheap it is like 30 cents to ride the marshootkas (I am not quite sure how you'd spell it out in English) but that is the transportantion we used. It is like a big van that there is room to stand up in and such and sometimes they get crammed packed haha but other than riding that we just walk around everywhere, which isnt too bad. 

Well it was a good week here in Lugansk, Ukraine and I am very greatful to be here. I am also glad that we teach and believe that both members and non members of our church can choose whether or not our church is true and they can investigate it for themselves rather than just keeping people in our church just becasue someone said we had to or because of traditions. I really enjoy it here and it should be an intersting yet good Christmas being away from home haha 

Merry Christmas!

Love you all!

Love,

-Elder Witt