This has been another great week out in the mission field. Thursday was our transfer meeting and my new companion is Elder Duke from Hurricane, Utah(somewhere on the border of Utah and Arizona). He's a great guy and i think this will be a great transfer. The next morningn on friday, we went into donetsk for Zone leaders council which was another amazing experience, so much great information and some new ideas as to how to recieve referrals. Our mission has for the longest time focuses on being busy missionaries, meaning we spent most of our time searching on the streets or tracting. Our new president has really been stressing that we be busy but be smart about it, taking more time for planned finding activities and focus on refferal recieving when working with members. He showed us some results from Armenia, aparently the next one up for recieveing a stake, who are not even allowed to make initial contact with others on the street. Most of their results come from MEMBER REFFERALS! When i think about how i treated the missionaries at home and not showing very much interest in giving them refferals, i now understand just how frustrating, time consuming, and tiring it is to try and find people on your own without much help. The Lord still blesses us for our efforts but we can definitly see the results get better drasticly as the members involve themselves. Now i realize just how many great oppurtunities i had to introduce the missionaries to my friends but didnt take advantage of the moment. Thats a regret that i have that i want to change when i return. Any ways, that was all that was very exciting this week so i hope to send you some pictures right now if i can.
This was us waiting at 4 oclock at the Lugansk train station.
This is from my apartment in the evening. These buildings are called dome's and is where almost everyone lives
This was a celebration of Day of the Miners. There were tons of people on the central square of the city.
Some grafitti that i actually appreciate!! :)
This was our district from last transfer.
This is our mode of transportation in ukraine, the beloved Marshutka!
Well i love you all and i hope you all have an amazing week. I really loved seeing those pictures from benjamins dance! that looked like alot of fun! Also thanks for that other picture of us when we were younger. it was fun to see :) Well, talk to you all later!
With Love,
Elder Ostler
