McDonalds

Hello Fam 

and whoever else reads this. How's it goin? this week was nice. I forgot to tell you that my companion came back and he was at the New Years party in Donetsk. On Christmas here we didnt really do anything, christmas here isnt tooo much different other than the fact that it isnt as big as it is in america. And it still didnt feel like Christmas haha I guess the only thing different they do, I heard this and am not sure if it is true, they open all their presents on Christmas Eve. BUt then I went on a split to Donestk with the ZL becasue he had a meeting and so I went with a missionary from another zone and he was pretty cool. Elder Christensen. He is from New Mexico and is way good at Russian even though he has only been here 2 transfers more than me. We taught a recent convert and it was half English half Russian so that was fun and she look like a solid member who loves the church and was just way friendly. While in Donestk we got McDonalds which was so delicious haha it was nice to have some fries and hamburger, I actually ordered two Big Mac combo meals haha (I can picture dads face while he reads this) hahaha but it was way good.

 Then when we were riding a bus to the train station it was haulin and the roads arent too smooth so we were literally flying off of our seats haha Then we have had lessons set up and stuff but most of them have fallen through so we have done a lot of contacting and that has been rough but we have found a few people so hopefully they saty interested. We called to set up lessons and two of the people we called thought that Mormons cant use the computer and the other thought we were Amish haha and they both didnt want to know more and didnt believe that we could use computers and internet and stuff.  We did have one lesson and it was outside in someones backyard on a wet log, in the dark haha but I said a few things and my Russian was terrible but hey I said some stuff right haha then tracting last night we talked to this kid who was like 18ish and he said he wanted to know more and agreed to let us talk to him for like 10 minutes then his babooshky came and said we dont need this and closed the door on him and us ha but we were able to give him a pamphlet some hopefully he calls or comes to church. 

President and Sister Lochhead came to our branch yesterday so it was good to see them and they both said some cool things. President shared how the branch is like a family and if you move a coal away from a fire it gets cold so we need to stay close to the fire and keep warm and such then Sister Lochhead did a presentation in Sunday School about how when we are free to choose we arent necessarily free because disobeying God's commandments takes away from freedoms and weighs us down and she had someone hold books and was blindfolded and tied with rope and said well this doesnt look very free at all. ha it was funny but very true and very cool.

This week I also made the mac and cheese that was sent to me for christmas and it was way good so thanks mel! I also had a dream a while ago that mom was speaking to me in Russian and I had no idea what she was saying haha so the russian is there somewhere in my brain haha 

love you all and hope you have a good week! 

-Love Elder David Witt