Sister Amanda DeMille: another week!

family and friends,

I'm not going to lie, nothing very exciting happened this week and it was one of "those" kind of rough weeks as a missionary, but we see blessings and I'm grateful for that. We got some new "rules" from our Pres. Basically they are all the rules from the white handbook, but a little pepped up you could say haha. We are doing a lot of finding outside and a little less studying. I know that we will see blessings from it, but it was a little rough to get started with the new schedule. Basically the highlight from this week was us saving this half-naked 89 year old guy's life haha. So this is what happened. We have a new investigator in Kherson and we went over to see her, she is an older woman, like 65 (i think that is still young, in ukraine it's old haha). She is like a care taker for her best friend's dad (the 89 year old). His name is Misha and he is like really old (for ukraine haha). So we go over there and look over the gate and Misha is laying on the cement and there are goats running everywhere! We yell for Tonya (our investigator), and she is not home. I think what happened is Misha was just sitting outside on his chair just looking at the sky you know, and the goats from the goat pen behind the house break loose, start running wild, and knocked poor misha off of his chair! Who knows how long he had been laying there before we got there! So we try to open the gate to help him and it's locked. So what do 2 sister missionaries do? Yep, climb the fence in our skirts haha. Then we help misha up, and he is like so sunburned and tired, poor guy! While we are helping him, all the goats keep ramming us (seriously) and trying to eat our skirts (seriously). We had to hit them with water bottles to get them to stay away! So we take misha inside and give him some water that he downed in like 3 seconds and he fell asleep like 5 seconds later. It was quite an adventure and now Misha loves us haha. The next day we saw Tonya and she was soooo grateful that we helped him haha. It was great!

The rest of our week consisted of us finding and trying to meet with people. We met some interesting people, to say the least. Some lady told us our fortunes--I need to learn an asian language such as japanese or chinese, I look like my mom (her heart told her that, then I proved her right with a photo haha), and I am very wise apparently. Another lady offered us her borshte recipe, another lady told us we aren't saved, someone cast us out of their little village (because everyone is orthidox according to her), and another guy argued with us for about 30 minutes about how we are wrong and not real servants of the Lord. We had a sort of depressing lesson with one of our families that we are teaching, and the husband told us he believes in reincarnation and he isn't interested in learning or reading, he just likes to discuss with us. Things like that pull at my heart strings a little bit, but we just move on. Other than that, it's just work around here! This week we are heading down south to Simferopol for another Zone Conference, which should be great.

I know that our church is true because I can feel it and I just KNOW, you know? Not only that though, it's very logical! It's hard to tell people here that God has restored His church again and they don't listen or take the time to even think that it could happen. The more I study the Bible, the more I realize how much the bible matches up with our church and how crazy it is to me people who supposedly know and study the bible, can't see that there could be one true church on earth. But we are trying to find the elect who will realize that, and want to join that one church! Well, I love you all! I know the church is true and I will continue to tell everyone who will listen!