Hey Mom,
So Sister Leavitt (the member who called me last week from Ukraine) is probably one of the Leavitts, but they used to live here and she has some organization or something that she works with. They brought Michael McClean out here for a week to talk to members and do some charity and she just saw us at church and asked for your number.
Yeah, so honestly, I can't really control my weight right now, but it keeps going up and down but overall, I have lost 20 pounds on the mission. Sorry. And the Gilbert's syndrome is obviously not a problem. It is genetic and apparently half the population carries at least one of the genes for it. Not anything to worry about though, but my eyes are still a little yellowish. My body will deal with it and the doctor just recommended that when I get back, I go to get my levels checked and see if it could be something else.
So nothing is really happening with transfers. Elder Hadley is out for his last transfer and Elder Johnson and Hofeling will be serving together as Assistants. I am excited, because those two are awesome. I will miss Elder Hadley, but I will be seeing him anyway back at the U so it is fine. I will be staying with Elder Hubbell for my last transfer here in the Borshahivsky ward. I didn't get the package by the way, but I think that I will get it when they pick up mail this week. And yes, there was a change in the visas and the government laws and so the missionaries for this transfer are having trouble. They will be coming December 5th though. The change happened as I was leaving the office. Now visas only last 90 days, but they can do temporary residence, but they are having trouble. It doesn't affect me though.
I am glad that work is going well and that you are enjoying it. Chels and Caitlin both said the concert was fun and that I will have to listen to Parachute when I am home. We'll see. Anyway, I am glad that they are both happy and doing ok. Those silly girls with all their busyness.
Dad said you cried :P (Rob gave a talk yesterday in Sacrament Meeting about testimony and made me cry :P They had the two new counselors speak.) I think that is cool that they were able to speak and about such an important topic too - awesome. And prayer is important too, especially for the Primary kids. (I did sharing time yesterday on prayer.) We are going to help with the Primary program here for the international branch. There are only like 5 kids so it is more of a ward program, put together by the Primary. It will be at the end of November. Choir is fun, isn't it. We are performing this weekend - our men's choir - for stake conference. Our choir has about 12 voices which is silly because there are a lot more men, but they just aren't coming out which is too bad. It will be great though. I love singing and cool hymn arrangements are always awesome. Good luck with Rachel by the way. (I was supposed to go help Rach unpack today on my day off, but they ended up with the flu so I didn't go.) Have fun.
Well, the work is really going well here and we had a really cool week. We helped with a wheelchair charity project thing which was really cool - we got to do some manual labor and translate for the LDS chairities reps from Salt Lake. Apparently Eric Wunderlich is their boss or something...? (He's my cousin.) When the women mentioned his name, I thought it sounded familiar and then I remembered. Anyway, there could be lots of them I guess. The project was cool though even though it took a lot of time. Good word about the church got out and three of the guys became new investigators. On Saturday, we spent all day at the church for the project and then our Halloween party which we threw. It was cool, even if stressful, and I really think everyone enjoyed it. Sunday was awesome too and I loved the meetings. I can certainly say though that I look forward to English again. It was nice to be in an English class and more freely be able to share my thoughts. Honestly, I had a "wow, I am in Ukraine" moment in our gospel principles class where half the class spoke Russian, the other half Ukrainian, and the teacher just spoke whatever she had just been spoken to in (does that make sense?). And to make it even funnier, everyone understood each other perfectly. That doesn't really happen anywhere else.
The work is going forward and we are continuing to find new families each week on the streets, tracting and with help of the members. I think we should have some baptisms soon. President is continuing to challenge and invite us to step it up and I am just glad that the missionaries I serve around are all willing to do so.
I know that this Church is true. Jesus is the Christ, our Savior and Redeemer and only through Him can we be saved. God lives and loves us and has revealed His plan for our happiness through living Prophets. The priesthood of God is on the earth again! This is all part of God's perfect plan for us. I know these things are true.
I love you Mom. Have a great week and tell everyone that I love them.
Love,
Elder Jones
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