tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42492786473524677602024-02-21T05:44:59.842-08:00Elder Jared Naumannkimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-10727440991628400412014-01-03T10:12:00.001-08:002014-01-03T10:12:23.717-08:00Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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Well this week we had a lot of fun things going on and i was very glad i got a chance to talk to you i always enjoy the time to talk with all of you face to face well sort of face to face it was fun none the less.</div>
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This week we met alot with that family and the kid who are going to get baptized soon and they are really progressing well they are so elect its almost scary how elect they are i love it when you think of the lord and his work moving forward in weird and miraculous ways you should think of these people who just eat up the good word and try to live it. Im just grateful the lord has blessed me with the opportunity to serve them and participate in their progression my little bit. </div>
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One little problem came up with the family and their progression getting baptized this week, THE WIFE HAD HER KID, ITS A BOY. So we had planned to get her baptized before the due date but unfortunately we and she didn't make it. I guess it was too much for her to hold it a week but its ok i think they are really progressing so when she comes out again we will teach her and help her towards baptism but until then we will be working with the husband and then hopefully he can baptize her and their son so we will see. </div>
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We had a fun Christmas party this week i was Santa, I gave out lots of candy and presents it was fun and really hard the older kids were stinkers but it was fun to be Santa in another language i think everyone had fun. </div>
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We also sang a lot and we had a nativity scene and that was also fun because the guy we asked to read the story read it like this. first the angel visit and then the wise men and then the birth and then the shepherds and then the angle, lets just say it was interesting kind of a funky way of Reading the story but fun. </div>
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Well not much else happened this week but it was fun and great to see all of you well most of all of you. I love you all and wish you a happy new year. </div>
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Love Elder Naumann</div>
kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-74586329216520366852013-12-17T08:08:00.001-08:002013-12-17T08:08:28.804-08:00Time, time, time<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Dear Family, </span></span><br />
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Well this is so crazy you got to stop mentioning about how much time everyone else has and their flight plans, my companion is </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">trunky</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> enough </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">ok</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> he really </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">isnt</span></span> <span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">trunky</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">. </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Im</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> excited for the </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">skype</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> call this year </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">im</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">planning on having time to call at about 6 or 7 our time i </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">dont</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> know when that is your time but ya know. We are going to have as much time as last time so expect about 15 min of face time...... </span></span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">We spent some time this week getting some </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">christmas</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> stuff from the outdoor-market we got a </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">christmas</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">tree for our church on </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">wednesday</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> and then we had a family night that night and we made decorations and it was way fun and i have to say that for a </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">gheto</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> tree it looks great. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Do you think you will be in this area for a while? mom to that question i will give a huge i hope so cause i really love it here in </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">yzhorod</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> it is so much fun we are having such success and i love my companion so ya know how that works i probably wont stay cause </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">thats</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> what the lord does he waits until you really love your area and then he helps you love a new area but i hope i stay. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="line-height: 21px; position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Mom i know you want my release date but yeah you will have to wait and that is so weird i could swear that i was on my mission when she left for her mission. Its funny to see that everyone is leaving around</span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">christmas</span></span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="line-height: 21px; position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> i hear that is the best time to leave cause an apostle for sure will be there for </span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">christmas</span></span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="line-height: 21px; position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> How is your new family?Did they come to church? the answer is yes they came to church and they are so awesome they have such </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">potental</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> they came to our family night and had a really fun time it was awesome. How many men do you have in your group now? Any priesthood holders? yeah we have 1 </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">mel</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">. priesthood holder and 2 adult arr. priesthood holders its great and we will soon have 2 boys with the arr. priesthood. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Well this week we did </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">alot</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> of prep work for the </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">christmas</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> party and the presents that we are getting for the district here. </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Im</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> glad that </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">im</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> here for </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">christmas</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">, last </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">christmas</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> was great but this one will be just so much better. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">This week we have a zone conference this week and its funny we were told that we were opening our </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">christmas</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">packages and well i already did so sorry family but it will still be fun </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">im</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> super excited for </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">christmas</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> and we can figure out the rest when the day comes. I think that i have a google + account and i have a </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">skype</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> thing i think so we will see you in a couple of days so love you all.</span></span></span></div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-79593671742376125002013-12-11T08:40:00.002-08:002013-12-11T08:40:54.731-08:00Baptism (from 12/2/2013)<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Well we had a really good thanksgiving week there was a baptism of one of our investigators. It was great cause we </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">didnt</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> think that it would happen but all the pieces fell into place and he got baptised and i was lucky enough to baptise him and it was a great experience. We also had a weird thanksgiving probably one of the weirdest of my life. </span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">So first the reason we </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">didnt</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> think that this baptism wouldn't happen is that this 13 year old kid even though he wanted to be baptized and has good friends as influences he still is a 13 year old kid. The hardest part for him has got to be his sister because she really </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">didnt</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> want him to become a member but thank goodness the parents were totally </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">ok</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> with it. It was cool cause they are both deaf and talking with them was hard but fun it sort of reminded me of American sign language it was cool.</span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Thursday our supposed thanksgiving so we were told this year by our president and wife that we weren't aloud to have thanksgiving as a district or with other missionaries and they told us to celebrate it another way but </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">thats</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> hard to celebrate a holiday where all you do is gather with those you love and eat food if the first option is taken out of the equation. </span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">But we found a way around that hiccup by having some elders from </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">lviv</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> come down to do registration, it didn't work out to where they could come on Thursday so instead we did it on Friday but it didn't go that smoothly. </span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">So the elders from </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">lviv</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> got there Thursday night and well they brought more and more bad news so first thing is that the visa trips are now back on well not for us old missionaries just of the young ones and the Christmas zone conference will be without them so that was sad. </span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">But then Friday came and we planned to eat thanksgiving then but out of nowhere the president from </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">lviv</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> came down and wanted to take us all out to lunch so we all went into center and spent some time with him. It was weird cause he didn't call he didn't tell us anything about him coming but there he was to ruin out plans. </span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Well this week has been an interesting one with a few money problems at the beginning of this week with well none we had to pay our land lady for something and then the money that we had for the rest of the month wasn't there we ended up figuring everything out but Wednesday but lets just say that we </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">didnt</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> eat very much and we are getting a divorce......</span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Well other then that we had a great week we have a baptismal date for the 30th with a 13 year old kid so this whole week we have been teaching him and helping him prep for that its exciting cause we will have 3, 13 year </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">olds</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> it will be crazy. </span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">So basically in the group here we do everything right we are growing but we still have to do stuff so our week consists of these activities with the group. Tuesday we have English club then Wednesday we have family night then Thursday English then Friday </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Mcm</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> and mutual and then Saturday we have cleaning and then Institute then Sunday we have church which i along with the other missionaries run with the help of the members. </span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">So mom your question How do you balance in your mission? Well its hard especially when you introduce school applications into the soup pot. But something that i have been trying to do since the beginning of my mission is getting in 15 min of scripture reading a day and for some reason life balances out by itself well of coarse not by itself but for some reason i feel more balanced in my day to day life. </span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Something that i do like about running the group is that we can make the activates really fun and for some reason they fall into place like we want them. I </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">konw</span> <span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">thats</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> not what will always be but for now </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">im</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> glad, For </span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">instanctance</span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> we planned the Christmas party and lets just say that it will be really fun we plan a nativity scene and a Christmas tree and Santa and well lots of great stuff but i do want something, How do you make eggnog from scratch that would be great to have i think. </span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Well you know whats funny none of you have said anything about whats going on in </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">kiev</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">, apparently there is this revolution going on where there are now 2 million students resisting/ fighting the cops in </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">kiev</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> so that they can join the </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">eu</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">. Well i guess its not that big of a thing but here it is </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">thats</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> all the people here are talking about and its funny cause most of the investigators in our district are students and they are at the revolution in </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">kiev</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> and crazy things are going on. No mom </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">yzhorod</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> is not effected cause we are on the other side of the mountains so all is safe and all is good we just have some small </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">rallys</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> going on once and a while. </span></span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Im</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> glad the singing stuff went well this week </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">im</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> always sad when i hear about stuff like that and how </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">im</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> not there but yeah its not that big a deal i be there soon enough well i would say too soon but i </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">dont</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> intend on missing another one. </span></span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Macey</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> I want you to know that I'm</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> actually enjoying listing to Christmas music this year. I think its cause i forbade my companion and all others with the help of a sister, from singing Christmas songs until this week. and this next week we are planning to have a Christmas tree up soon enough at the church so all will be ready for Santa. </span></span></div>
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<span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">Well i will pray for you grandma and well everyone else and you all got to pray for the family sorry we cant give names but pray for the family in </span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;">uzhorod</span></span><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"><span class="remarkable-pre-marked" style="position: relative;"> that they will come to our meetings and church to get baptized. </span></span></div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-45998107599616371132013-11-11T22:35:00.004-08:002013-11-11T22:35:57.000-08:002 baptisms.<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Dear Family, </span><br />
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Well first things first macey congradulations on getting into suu that is so great for you im glad that despite the examples of your brothers you managed to overcome the school wall and get a great scholorship that is way great. </div>
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So this week has been one of the best/ busiest of my life as a missionary well also as a person and it was great. So this week we had 2 baptisms on Saturday which went so well i never thought that a baptism could go so well. </div>
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We had the whole branch of 8 come and the missionaries and a few visitors. The water was also warm which has never happened ever in my time serving as a missionary it is always ice cold. They both went under easily and well i could name everything that happened but it would take too long. Lets just say that i really am grateful to the lord for alouing us to participate in helping others come to Christ. </div>
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Its funny to look at missionaries and to see that no matter how hard we work we really dont have the power to change peoples minds no matter how smart or talented we cant truly convert people. Thank goodness that god had provided a way for everyone of his children to feel and to know truth. The holy ghost has the most work to do out of all the missionaries in the world. He is always awake he is the most effective and he knows every language. Im grateful that god gave us him as a companion because without him we really would not succeed. </div>
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This week we got to also have a stake conference of sorts where we had to download it and then watched it on Sunday and it was good we thought something would happen bur nothing happened except the preaching of the Gospel. </div>
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Oh sorry that i forgot we got transfers this week and im staying in uzhorod and im going to be with my future roommate his name is elder Austin and im really excited to be serving with him. Its funny that the people you want to serve with changed throughout you mission. At the beginning of my mission i really would have never wanted to serve with this elder but now there isnt a person i would want to serve with more. Unfortunately i have to move apt. but all the apt. here are really great so all is well. </div>
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Sad thing with transfers elder callister is going home and mom he has some stuff to give you so make sure to get in contact with him maybe go to his homecoming or something. Its sad to see him go home its funny thought cause i remember when he left from pg and now i was at his Ukraine farewell it was good and sad. </div>
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Well have a great week this week and macey good job again im really proud of you. </div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-65680636058283992652013-11-11T22:34:00.001-08:002013-11-11T22:34:51.144-08:00What A Week<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So in short the miracle of the week is that on this Saturday there will be 2 people getting baptized here in little </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">uzhorod</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> which brings our numbers up to 10. It really has been a miracle with them both being ready at the same time. I wont tell you much detail but one woman has 4 member children and the other woman is a friend of a member who we started teaching and she started our first meeting with what can i do to get baptized next week so we told here and its just been a miracle. </span><br />
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We also had president lattin over this weekend and he is so great he helped us with the whole branch thing and how he is our leader so that was great we also just had studies with him which are always fun and really interesting. </div>
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We also had a really fun Halloween party where we trick or treated. In Ukrainian they translate it to candy or death thats what they said when they came to the door we had. We also played bobbing for apples and the apples that we had were so small so what i did was i just sucked up the apple into my mouth and everyone was wondering where the apple was and then i opened my mouth and the apple fell it was funny. We played a few other games and they really loved it. </div>
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Sorry this is so short i have to go to a lesson. That was basically my week and yeah so have a great one everyone. </div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-87313384232496596392013-10-28T21:47:00.002-07:002013-10-28T21:48:28.305-07:00Random miracles<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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This week sounds like it has been busy and full of lots of things, Well that's the same for me too, when i look back at the time that i have spent here in uzhorod it feels weird and i dont think that i like how fast time is going. Its also weird cause I have been working on school applications and it was weirder to have elder callister tell me that he is signing up for classes. Man real life comes way to quick and sometimes people think, If only i can make it to the end of my mission, or the end of school or this or that it will all be better and easier. That is not the case we have to let ourselves to be happy now because god intended us to be happy now and for us to see the beauty now.<br /></div>
This week we had a few visitors including the zone leaders for exchanges and elder tribett for de-registration. The zone leaders were sort of fun because we had elder terry back and all the members wanted to see him which is always fun to be with those missionaries and hope that the members would do the same thing for me if i ever come back.<br /></div>
We had some really cool miracles this week one of them including one of our members bringing one of their friends back to the church. She had already been taught most of the lessons but then fell off the map but now she wants to be baptized so we know how to provide that service. Its really cool cause she just dropped out of nowhere so we are going to do all we can to get her in the water.<br /></div>
We also had our first mutual activity with the 2 young men in our group where we had them invite their friends to come play soccer with a few Americans and we played them and its a good thing that elder callister can play soccer or else it would have been really embracing. well not really its not to hard to beet a few 12 year olds. Ok yeah it is they were really good.<br /></div>
Something happened this week that was sad and well at the same time unexpected and the same time very expected. So this week we were told that the mission pres. 1st councilor was coming down to talk and to teach us but we called him <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1436785819" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> and he told us that he wasn't coming so yeah i had the wonderful opportunity to prepare a 20 min talk man was it hard and i hear my talk was a bit long but i made it.<br /></div>
Well thats about it family there were some great miracles this week but no time will tell you next week.<br /></div>
Love Elder Naumann</div>
kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-56707423319985448642013-10-22T21:30:00.002-07:002013-10-22T21:30:48.127-07:00Weeks of Firsts<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear Family, </span><br />
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Well this week has been fun we have really had some good success with investigators and alot of them area coming out of english and they are really interested. We have been having some phone problems this week well honestly since elder vernon got here just like in brovary everything goes wrong, This week we had the sisters lock their phone and the other elders get their phone lost and us having to go buy one, and the sisters multiply times have left their phone at home so yeah we are having fun. </div>
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This week we also had exchanges and it was great being with Elder callister and elder johansen we had some interesting experiences together. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_592540901" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On tuesday</span></span> me and elder callister got together and worked <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_592540902" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span> and it was great elder callister congratulate you kim on the mission call he is super excited for you and hopes to see you at his home coming. I was also on a service project with elder johansen out at a members house but this time we built him a cabinet and it was funny because he wouldn't listen to us so we just did our best and learned patients and we spent about 4 hours with him, afterwords we talked with each other and we thought wow we could have done that in an hour and a half but thanks to the half crazy half blind member we got to have fun for 4 hours. </div>
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We also visited a member who is in the hospital and has Cancer which is really sad and we just found out today that she herself doesn't know that she has Cancer, our doctor friend told us and it is sad she is 69 years old and really frail and its sad to see her but she is a trooper and is doing her best in with what she has and her daughter was there so we met her too. </div>
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English was really good this week we have decided to change really everything cause we haven't really been finding investigators from English so we changed that and we found 4 investigators this week just from English and its great. </div>
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This week was my first regular week to conduct sacrament and it was all set up with a member of the mission pres. coming down to speak but 2 days before he called and canceled. So we had to do some quick prep for some talks but they were fine. And this week I taught G.P. and the subject was eternal marriage and i got to say i dont like talking about stuff i have never done. </div>
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Thats about it im glad to hear that every thing is going great. keep it up. </div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-71474365216769291922013-10-15T22:35:00.002-07:002013-10-15T22:35:26.024-07:00General Conference in Ukrainian<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear Family, </span><br />
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Well this week was really good we got to watch general conference in ukrainian, and this was my first time that i had watched it inukrainian and not for language study. We have been watching it for comp. study at home on our tv but we only got the first session so far but its great so far. Watching it in ukrainian is really hard, Its like listening to someone who speaks like they were reading a collage paper and not the conversational words that i know so it is hard but it was fun. </div>
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We have also been meeting alot this week with one member who is a recent convert and has been struggling with his addictions and so to help him we have been listening to the 12 step program of recovery that the church has so it has really been helping him and its really a great program. </div>
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This week we got to play base ball again and it was way fun these Ukrainians just dont know how to play they want us to train them but none of us really know how to play but thats ok we spent some time talking about the Gospel and there were some kids who were like yeah i will come so that was cool. This one kid we talked to said that he is Greek Catholic and that he tried going to another church but they kicked him out because he was Greek Catholic. so we of coarse invited him to our church because we are always happy to take people in. </div>
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We also spent some time doing some service with a member, this guy had us help him move logs that he was cutting down with a new chainsaw and well to give you an idea of this man he only has one good eye and lets just say that he had no safety equipment (dad you wouldn't have liked that) and he may have fallen a couple of times with the chainsaw going so yeah it was fun. Dont worry family I have learned my lessons of safety and didnt do anything stupid. </div>
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We met with some investigators this week and had a really cool experience with this new investigator. So this man has been coming toenglish club for like a month and then this week out of nowhere when we were leaving a store we see him and he tells us that he knows a man in lviv who is a member and he basically just asked how does one become a member. Miracle right!!!!!!</div>
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So update on the whole group leader thing and branch situation with finances and all that fun stuff. So i have been talking with pres. Lattinthis week alot and now we area not part of the lviv branch we are now part of the lviv ukraine mission branch and pres. lattin will be our branch pres. and i will be a councilor and we wont have really any money but at least it will be by the rules. </div>
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Thats about it this week family love you. </div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-58072079683309379812013-10-09T20:52:00.001-07:002013-10-09T20:52:13.311-07:00Becoming what the lord wants<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Dear Family, </span><br />
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This week has been sort of stressful and full of new things and old things and things that i wouldn't have wished upon myself but one thing that i learned this week was to trust in god and to know that whatever he does and whatever he asks you to do he prepares a way for you to do it. It wont be easy and it will take time and will take effort but he is always there. </div>
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This week i got myself a new and an old companion. Im back with elder vernon and its funny to see how we have changed and how we have stayed the same. We have spent some time this week contacting and teaching people. We have both noticed that when we were in brovary we taught with the most unity and with the most power, That was interesting to me because we didn't know the language and we didnt know what we were doing but we trusted in the lord and knew thats where we should be. </div>
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I am now the acting group leader here in uzhorod and its scary, i conducted the meeting this week and i had to make it all up for the paper that we use was gone and we still cant find it so will have to make a new one. </div>
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On top of running the meetings i also have to deal with all the money. I received a call from the mission pres. and he told me that i wasn't doing it right, unfortunately i was just doing what my 4 fathers told me to do and what they have always done. In my knowledge they didn't just do it blindly they asked up and the answers built up into my knowledge of how to run the branch, unfortunately we have to now change that oh well it will be hard but whatever</div>
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Spent some time with elder johansen this week while we were waiting for our new companions and we made the fun fetty finally, it was his 1 year mark and it was close to my 18 month mark, which was weird cause my sisters from my mtc group went home they went home............ I wasnt ready for that, i remember like it was yesterday that we were all in the mtc speaking awful Ukrainian and now one of our sisters is in Israel and is translating for 6 ukrainian women who live in her group. </div>
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That was weird to me to hear that there was nothing at conference cause last year was so big i guess theydidnt want to do something crazy and big so soon after last years announcement, The sisters in our district are both 19 and they have only been out for 6 weeks they are stressed but they are celebrating their 1 year from the announcement date they were rather excited. </div>
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Well thats it family mom its getting a bit colder but who know what will happen on this side of the mountains, and im curious to see what will happen with transfers too because pres. lattin is a stickler for money and once he sees how much money he is spending he might change his mind. and mom the lord really does know your knees....... </div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-641786972433144382013-10-09T20:51:00.001-07:002013-10-09T20:51:24.500-07:00New law (from Sept.9th)<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">
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Dear Family,<br /></div>
Well first things first this week we received an email telling us that we cant email pictures home or tell about peoples personal information like names or things like that and especially not letting family put things on facebook or blogs and other things like that so kim sorry take down the blog. So family i will tell you things but i will leave out alot of things so bare with me.<br /></div>
Well this week has been really good and at the same time really long its weird the whole time warp that the mission creates but i like it. Well on monday we had not much but i did get a new dictionary its for polish and i got to say i like polish but we will see how much i study it along with ukrainian its just so easy. ok so the reason why im learning polish is unknown to me but im doing it for some reason.<br /></div>
We had something fun this week we got an announcement that we need to in the next 2 weeks have as many verities of fruits and veggies so guess what we did went all out we have had all together 45 different fruits and veggies and man it was hard for me to eat all those veggies raw but i got to say mom that i like squash but for the most part my taists buds just delt with the veggies calmly.<br /></div>
We also had english on tuesday and thursday and it was good our english program is really good the people love it and the people are really funny sometimes and something cool that happened this week we got a call from this woman who wanted us to come to her english club so that natives can come over so this week we should go.<br /></div>
We had a really good exchanges this week with the zoneleaders and i was with the elder who served here first so lots of people loved him and really well everyone knew him on the street i hope that when i leave and get the opportunity to come back that people remember me too. we also had family night and alot of people came it was fun we made air plains and tried to get eturnal life it was fun.<br /></div>
So on saturday we had a really cool picnic where most of the members came and also some people fromenglish came and an investigator from lviv who useto live here so yeah we had about 20 people there and we mad them american hamburgers which me and my companion made for them they loved it and they made us shashleky which is ukrainian shishkabob they were way good we had a really good time next to the river here.<br /></div>
We also after that had a really good lesson with 2 people who were really interested in the gosple which was really cool they were asking great questions adn it was fun. the guy works as a black smith so that was cool.<br /></div>
We had a good church meeting this week too some members didnt come so that was sad but its interesting when in lviv some church members dont come its not a big deal but when it happens here we find them or at least look for them so thats what we did.<br /></div>
Sorry everything is not very detailed but thats all i can do sorry.<br /></div>
Thats crazy about the weather at home who knew that that would happen after you took out the ugly bush. glad you all had a cool fireside and everyone is doing good, mom sound great.<br /></div>
Love you all and have a great week.<br /></div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-91899827862240180142013-09-30T17:41:00.001-07:002013-09-30T17:41:09.284-07:00Speak your Language (from Sept. 23)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear Family </span><br />
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I will first answer moms questions and then tell about my week. </div>
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How are you? Im great. ok but really im doing good. </div>
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How is your new area? It is just as good as the hipe from the other missionaries. The people here are few but they are really strong.</div>
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How is it being in the leadership of the branch? its funny and harder and easier then i thought i dont know how that works but its great. </div>
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What is the weather like right now? It has been raining this last week alot and aparently the winter is going to be a fun one im not looking forward to it. </div>
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Do you have a new favorite food other than borsch that we could try? well i really like vereniky with sour cream but you really shouldnt try anything new while im not there you will probably make it wrong. </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So our 2 investigators are doing really well they are reading and this time they had their brother sit in and he was interested too hopefully they will take a baptismal date the next time we come. they love having us over and we love being over we are just woried that we will get stuck in the friend zone and we dont want that to happen we want them diving deep into the waters of baptism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Yesterday and the day before we had president lattin here to teach us and teach the members and we really had no idea what to do cause he is here for like 4 days and didnt tell us he wanted to be on lessons or any expectations so its really weird he really strugles to tell us concreet things he is nothing like president k but i like him, he just barly studied with us and it was good he is working really hard on ukrainian so he is great.</span></div>
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Well this week is the week we got transfer info, and well it was interesting. So first let me give you a backround in what a typical transfer of president K goes, you stay with a companion for 2 transfers and in totall 4 in an area about 6 months and i like thismethid but now having pres. lattin as our mission president everything has changed. He likes people to only be in an area 2 transfers and with companions for 1.<br /></div>
So my companion is getting transferred to become a zone leader and im staying to become the group leader and to again to serve with you guessed it elder vernon the man i spent 6 months with already in a small cold town called brovery and now we are back together, He is the district leader and all the surroundings that we had in brovary like a big branch, cold ugly apt. and no languageskils. now we have a really small group and the language is good and the apt. is great so yeah it will be fun. It leads me to believe that i will be leaving uzhorod in 6 weeks.<br /></div>
Also something cool is that elder callister is coming into our district and will end his mission here with me and that will be cool it was funny because we had a lunch with a member here who does our registration asked us if i was serving with callister or vernonand i was like well i guess elder callister because i already served with elder vernon but i guess that doesnt make a difference to the lord. but as a consolation prize for not winning elder callister i get him in our district.<br /></div>
So mom you ask me about what i want in my Christmas package, and well you already know about the brown sugar and the peanut butter and you ask about anything else and well to be honest with you, I have clothes for the next year i have 4 suits (2 were gifts from a rich friend) and now i have an extra coat like a big guy also from that rich guy so i really dont know what more i could need. My good friend elder johansen just made a funny comment, We dont live in a third world country. I wasnt going to say anything but any country without peanutbutter is a third world country.<br /><br />Well this week was uzhorodes 1120 birthday so that was cool except for the extra dose of drunk guys on the street but whatever. So something cool this week we had 3 Americans come to church and they have been coming here for this like children's help program and they were here 15 years ago when the branch here had just opened and then closed. They told us why the missionaries were taken out 15 years ago, its because the mission pres. wanted the big cities to grow and so he let this city die. they said that they have been praying for 15 years for this place to open again and now it has.<br /></div>
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Well everyone this week has been an interesting one we had first off me getting sick, registration things a baptism fun englishclasses and me getting my first calling. Lets just say that this week was rather eventful and i had a planner so i remember it all well most of it. </div>
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So first thanks for the pictures kyle and mom i sent you a few pictures with me in it but yeah nothing really exciting as those pictures go except a baptism in a rented hot tub that was cold. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">This whole week i have been a little sick and one day i got hit hard but im all better now and its sad when you get sick because you loose precious time that you dont get back its really hard sometimes to be sick and have no area book to call people so it was hard but im over it now. </span></div>
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Also this week we had a fun experience with a miracle we started off with getting a phone call from the registration man namedlubamer and he told me that a bus with my documents would be in uzhorod at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_95661227" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:45</span></span> so we showed up to the place it should be and waited and called him and waited and called him and every time he said just wait elders just wait so that was frustrating cause we have a curfew its 9 or <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_95661228" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9:30</span></span> if you have a lesson and we were there waiting until 10 and it never came we waited there and while we were waiting there another kid named vania was there and we talked with him and he was cool and he was like hey could i maybe come to your church and we were like yeah you can so maybe he will come some day. we made it home and had a whole bunch of things the next 2 days and in the end i got it and im registered and all is well it was just an interesting experience.</div>
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We also had fun english classed this week i had some really fun conversations with this kid named albert he is 12 and knows 5 languages and is super smart and way funny. the english program here is really good we have about 30 people come and they love it. </div>
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We also had 2 not 3 baptisms which is sad but it was still great the baptisms that happened the woman who didnt get baptised who should have was their mother so if you mom could put the heminets family in the temple that would be great. </div>
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So the kids that got baptised are 11 and 14 they are way funny kids and the lord has really prepared their family to help uzhorodgrow. we did the baptisms at a cold hot tub and the kids are so small and they were so cold but it went well they were great.<br /></div>
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Well mom i answered most of your question except the last about the new pres. he is great very different from president klebingatso yeah i like him but i cant say which one is my favorite.<br /></div>
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Well love you all family have fun in the fast lane.<br /></div>
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Wow sounds like alot is going on for everyone school and work and new computers and well it sounds like everything in real life has just hit and lets just say that im glad to be on a mission it is the one place and time in my life where i dont have to worry about "real" life and its great i love it. </div>
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I was still with elder Nielson for most of the week and man when im with him even my journal goes under so i really cant recall where i was what i was doing but its ok now i have a new planner and all will be well. so i will do a brief overview of what i did.</div>
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Mon. We did regular stuff but mid way through we met up with a member and we went bowling and it was great its fun to do regular things with members and weird too. we also had dinner at tex mex for one last time well i keep saying that but i keep going back so yeah we them met up with him again after tex mex and we talked and walked and he is doing great he is really struggling with coming to church cause he doesn't like the members but he is doing alot better. </div>
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Wednesday well we spent the whole day with roman and we did alot of stuff we shopped and visited my favorite old granny and it was fun he is great he is our branch pres. over uzhorod so we talked about uzhorodwith my new companion elder terry he is great and amazing at the language but on the more boring side butim use to that. Its sad to leave lviv for the second time i never thought i would come back but i did and i hope i did what the lord wanted. </div>
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Thursday well we woke up early and went off to our train to uzhorod and well the rest of the week went like this English and English planning cleaning and church with only 6 member so it was good i like it the only thing is that we have to carry the whole thing on our backs for now cause the members are so new but i like it we are working hard here we have a few investigators and i haven't met them yet but we are going to hit the city hard, we have 3 hopefully baptisms this week so thats great and im excited to work here. </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thank you for the package it was so perfect it was literally everything that i wanted, but my companion said it looked like you had all eaten half the sweetish fish and i said no they wouldn't do that but i wouldn't blame you if you did, i for sure would have too. that alan Radmall is way cool he hooked me up he is the best. He said the next time he comes he will tell you and you can give him stuff and he can leave it in the mission home or something so watch out for a facebook message or a call or something.</span></div>
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Well Happy birthday brothers you are so old and man <span>didnt</span> you both just have birthdays and <span>shawn</span> i feel like it was just yesterday that you got the <span>aaronic</span> priesthood and now you are turning 13 that means it was a year ago or so, now that is crazy. I read in the scriptures the other day about the lords time and how it is one day but really 1000 years and that 1000 years is one day and i figured out why missions feel so weird sometimes when it comes to time, because as missionaries, his servants we are on his time so sometimes we feel like a day is 1000 years and nothing is happening and then at the same time i was just in <span>keiv</span> with a different person and who knows how that happens its just the lords time that all i can say. </div>
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Wow <span>thats</span> way fun that so many people visited you all this week it sounds like a party, and it also sounds like the party will end in about a week by someone named school. <span>ahhhh</span> school i remember at the beginning of this transfer i told my companion that only 1 transfer until school starts for everyone and now its happening and yeah the lords time goes and goes and goes.</div>
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This week is really hard to remember i keep hoping that i will get a planner soon cause i cant live without it well i can but its a different life that i <span>dont</span> like. On Monday we <span>finaly</span> got out to this family who is having a really hard time with their marriage and it was hard to see them the only thing <span>thats</span> really keeping them together is their kid but it really was a miracle that they let us over cause we <span>havent</span> been able to get out to them for like 4 months and i think it was good for them they are really good people and great members of the church apart but together they <span>dont</span> do really well. <span>Im</span> really glad we got out there and hopefully they will let us back, pray for them they need it. </div>
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We also had interviews with president and it was the longest interview i have ever had cause he asked me about everything about language, the work, you all, and really everything and it was really good i think it took about 20 min where most of my interviews go for about 5 and that is even too much some times. We also had studies with him he wanted to be with us so of coarse we talked about our studies and other cool things and he really is a smart man who understands the Gospel and wants to help others so it was fun. </div>
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We lost us some good people this week the <span>sr</span> couple that have been here and we said our goodbyes to them they are really great. They live in <span>idaho</span> next to <span>byu</span> i and so when i go there for school i will have to go visit them for some meal or something like that they invited us so its cool. We also went to a graveyard with <span>ihor</span> our recent convert, his mother was buried there she passed away about 43 years ago so he was sad and it was good for him and it was a really cool graveyard so that was good. </div>
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Well this week sounded like it was a blast for you all in Yellowstone and island park and <span>efy</span> <span>im</span> glad you all had fun. I miss spending time with you all i always remember the fun times we had at the cabin. It sounds like Erik and Becca are doing good what did i tell you all you have to stop it before i get home or i wont be happy <span>ok</span> i will still be happy but still do all you can. </div>
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Well this week was good we <span>didnt</span> really do much i cant remember really what we did the time moves by so quickly and i try to look back but i forget that's why i have a journal and usually i have a planner too so i can remember stuff but i <span>dont</span> have one and haven't for the past 3 weeks so yeah sorry my letters are awful. </div>
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Well Something i do remember this week is being on institute for everyone that we have once a week in the summer and its way fun there are like 10-15 people that come and this week we talked about <span>wilford</span> <span>woodruf</span> and it was interesting he is actually one of the prophets that i know <span>alot</span> about thanks to the movie the mountain of the lord so it was fun to talk about him. </div>
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Oh funny experience we went over to a members house who is less active and also it was his birthday this week and so we went over and he invited the <span>ap's</span> and they were busy with a meeting with the branch president so they couldn't come but the member told us that if they <span>dont</span> come he would leave the church so yeah he is a bit crazy but they managed to come and we ate <span>alot</span> of food he is really funny and when i was over there i saw a <span>liahona</span> and opened it and saw a picture of rob ( cousin) with his family so it was funny. </div>
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Well yesterday we went to <span>boba</span> <span>tatyana</span> yesterday and had a good time it is her birthday this week and we plan on bringing her a gift she was way happy to see us so <span>thats</span> always good. </div>
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Well <span>thats</span> basically it have a good week <span>macey</span> keep thinking about <span>byui</span> and <span>dont</span> think about the fact that you cant have shorts there its <span>ok</span> to wear pants all year round. </div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-67493599887155797272013-07-31T17:14:00.002-07:002013-07-31T17:14:32.684-07:00Jealous<br />
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Well im really glad you all are having fun up in island park im jealous, i bet the weather is great, it just decided to hit us with summer out here so it is hot like 33 deg hot ok i dont know how much that is in faronhite but its hotter than it has been for a long time.<div>
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Well i dont have too much time to write you today because my companion is sick and so we are doing a quick right and read and then going home so he can rest. </div>
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This week we had a few fun things that happened. We first started our english program up again and this time it will be a 10 week program and we are trying to make it more fun this time because no one liked it when is was all profesional so we are going to have more games and stuff. We went to Ivano frankivsk to get me registered. We had a great picnic and institute and church. </div>
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So first the english program is way more fun this time we have games and the games make the people speak which is hard for the group we are in charge of the beginners but they are fun sometimes they have a hard time to speak in english so they just talk in ukrainian but they go off on nothing so i made a rule that you cant speak ukrainian in the class only english so we will see how that goes. We also played a way funny game where they all had sticky notes on their heads with animals written in english and they had to speak english and describe each others animals so that was fun and funny.</div>
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Well this week we had a goodish week i guess, we spent alot of time on the street and alot of time in our newly split area of lviv idont remember if i told you about that but yeah it has 18 people in it that are members and everyday we find something new about our area that makes that number drop so we are optimistic and happy to keep moving forward. </div>
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<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">Well sounds like every ones weeks went well, josie im proud of you for singing on the spot and for making it through the trek, every time i watch 17 miracles it reminds me of what those people had to go through so i can only imagine what you felt like. mom imglad you get to do some fun singing thing, i always think about choirs that i want to be in and cant its sad but will be fun when imback. Shawn learn how to tie knots while your at the camp because someone in the family besides dad should know. Well maceyand josie have fun at efy i loved my byu-i Efy experience and i think you will too so have fun and look to have fun and to meet great people. And everyone have fun at the cabin especially you erik im jealous of all of you and i love you all.</span></div>
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So another surprise this week was we were talking with sister lattin and she said yeah ya know how they said 1 year until everything is everywhere in the world, yeah not for ukraine she said probably more like 2 years so that made me sad but all is well we as of yet dont spend any time on the computer using facebook or things like that but who needs it anyway. :(</div>
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Hey here is something that trevor can do that thinking about it i have decided that it would be smart, Look up your mission and mission president and think about giving them a call and asking them the weird things that you will need that you find out you want a year into the mission and also the rules on some things like music and other things like that so you can know what to bring and that your not going in blind.</div>
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Well Im glad Erik and Becca are going great you all still remember my instructions right? dont forget them and do everything you can to fufill them. Hey why is everyone getting married thats too weird. So my trainer was on the phone with a member here and i was in the room so i got to talk to him it was cool. Josie have fun at trek and make a new friend treks are way fun if you let them be i went on one and knew no one in my group but had a blast anyway. Dad you will never be released and im glad you make a great example for me, and good luck with all your business stuff that you are doing I know you will do great. oh and your old by the way 30 years really man your old but its ok people here when they see yours and moms pictures say you look way young. </div>
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Well everyone I hope you have a good week I love ya </div>
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Well this week was great and sorry for the shortness of the letter this week we have very little time because we have interviews with president lattin in an hour and he is 30 min away so yeah.<br />
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Well I think that i will tell you a bit about the lattins they are from Spokane Washington and they have 5 kids Paul peter James and john and a daughter but for obvious reasons I can only remember the boys names. one of their sons lives in pg so that's cool. They served here in Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk as a sr couple and they loved it and well they are very different from the klebingats because of their age the way they act they act like a sr couple and like a stake pres. </div>
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They speak very little Ukrainian but lets just say that the lord has given the gift of tongs to president lattin because he already is really good and he gave a little talk and it was way good Ukrainian. </div>
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Well this week we had a 4th of july activity which was way fun and me and my comp had to basically prepare it all why well lets just say we got thrown under the bus a little. So all week we were working on a jeopardy game and getting root beer ready for everyone and it took a long time to do the jeopardy game and we just made it like 10 min before and the questions were translated into Ukrainian using google translate and lets just say the translation wasn't the best but whatever it just led to a very fun scary game.</div>
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We had the activity and the plan was that we would show the people how to make root beer but we decided that it makes no sense to show them how if they cant get the extract stuff from America so we just gave them some and they loved it. We then played the game and they really got into jeopardy and they almost killed each other because they acted like 1st graders and were all like my hand was up first when they were sitting in the front row so yeah we had fun with that and word of advice don't do competitive thinking games with Ukrainians.</div>
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We also had a really good mission conference this week it was very basic but fun too, it was the last and only mission conference we can and will have which was sad because thats how big our zone conferences use to be but whatever we had fun and the lattins are great and although it was basic and mostly reminders it was a good start to this mission and i liked it. </div>
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Well that was it family hope you had a good 4th of July and a good week love ya Elder Naumann</div>
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kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07369707681006409038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249278647352467760.post-29142751343172331732013-07-22T11:17:00.001-07:002013-07-22T11:27:54.441-07:00The Beginning of the end (from july 1st)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear Family, </span><br />
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Well family this week was the end of the Kiev mission and yesterday was the beginning of the lviv mission and our new mission president got in on Saturday and is now our mission pres. I haven't got a chance to meet him but he will live here in lviv so I think there will be many chances. </div>
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Wow it sounds really hot in utah right not im glad you took it all away from us, because the last 2 weeks it has been really hot but today and the forecast for the rest of the week looks great. </div>
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Im so excited for Roan to be a Ginger he will be so cool. Girls camp sounded really fun and im jealous that there is trek I would have totally gone, like Erik dang i hope its fun. Im glad Becca is cool i hope everything works out... but family you have to stop them for at least 10 months that is your objective 10 months and then all is aloud. </div>
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So this week has been really good we spent some really good time in chervonograd and hopefully soon we will convince presidentlattin to open it for us to live there.</div>
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So the beginning of the week was rather normal as far as buying groceries and family night we had with our branch president at the church and we had McDonald's and we had a spiritual thought and watched some Mormon messages. </div>
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Wednesday was the start of the journey to chervonograd in which we picked up a straggler named Elder Bailey our district leader who wanted to do exchanges with us and also he wanted to go to chervonograd so we grabbed him after lunch and left his companion to the loving hands of the branch president and the ap's who made him their assistant to the assistants. </div>
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So going to chervonograd we take a bus for an hour and a half and on the bus we met this group of kids ages 11-13 who were going home from a volleyball tournament and we had an American football and they were so interested so we talked to them and set up a time to play with them on Thursday and teach them how to play. </div>
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Thursday we had a fun day we played football American and European with the kids we met the day before and we had a really good time but we all got sun burnt because we were so wight. We also met a girl from a different town who was visiting her grandma and the elders from her town called us and gave us her number and we called it and spent some time talking with here and here boyfriend and it was good they showed us some churches there and it was fun and next time we will be meeting her grandma. </div>
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Friday we came home from our trip and got ready for the activity in which i needed all the pictures which i got and thank you that was perfect buy hey one elder had a baby picture and i told him i was way more attractive as a baby but i couldn't prove it so if you could send me a picture of me when i was a baby that would be awesome.</div>
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We had the activity and like 40 people showed up which was way more than we thought so we didn't have enough pancakes or so we thought but the sisters did they made some the night before and thank goodness because they people loved it and they loved getting to know the missionaries more it was a way good activity. </div>
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But in the slide show i put the picture of us indexing together and our family history specialist came up to me afterward and asked me if i liked indexing and i said yes and we talked about how when our ward had a goal of like a million names or something like that and she said we need to do that here so she wants me to help her so maybe if you all have some ideas on activities to get people interested in indexing that would be awesome. </div>
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Saturday was normal we had sports day and i was already soar from our football trip and then we planned the week and then had our missionary meeting and the mcl and the branch pres. just talked the whole time and we really didnt get anything done. </div>
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Sunday we had a really good day we had church and one of my friends who is less active came and i invited him to eat lunch with us and so we ran home brought the food back and we ate together and he is doing better. We then went to this less active woman who has been having some problems with the church lately and she wasn't home but as we were leaving she came up and we had a good meeting and she was like i prayed for you all to come and it was a good talk and i think it helped her. </div>
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Well this week should be fun with the new mission president coming in and us having a mission conference it will be fun andthankyou for all your prayers they really do help. </div>
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