Elder Spencer Halls

Well to start off Happy Orthodox Easter everyone!! Haha like I mentioned last week (maybe, I forgot) Here in Ukraine they celebrate Easter a week later! It was super cool they have many cool traditions.  Everyone takes their easter food (eggs, cakes, fruits, etc.) In baskets to the outside of the church and then the Orthodox priest comes out with like a wand/broom thing and a bucket full of water and he goes and "blesses" everyone and their food. So this priest is just dipping this broom in the bucket and then flinging water over everyone and their food. That was pretty exciting to be apart of haha. We got permission to go and participate from President Wirthlin so we went to go and see how they celebrate Easter here.  Another cool thing that they do is everyone when walking on the street just says "Христос Воскрес!" (Christ is Risen!) and then you answer back "воистину воскрес!" (Truly, He is risen!) That was super cool maybe my favorite part. I...

Hello Hello everyone!! I hope Easter was super amazing. Here Easter is celebrated next week so I'll get double Easter!  It was a very eventful and busy week that is for sure! I'll kind of give you a little bit of the run down of what happened! So of course as I said last week I found out that I would be training so I of course I had to go pick up this brand new companion of mine in Dnepr! So Monday evening we got on a little bus down to Odessa and then from there took a big ole train to Dnepr over night! Got there in the morning and then I went to my old area POBEDA!  That was really cool to be back there with the trio even for just a few hours and see it all with green and leaves on the trees and all pretty looking! I did however forget to take pictures so sorry about that. Wednesday we had train the trainers which is exactly what it sounds like and that was a very good meeting! I felt like I learned so much and got very excited for this opportunity to train! ...

Hello Hello, Well first off we'll start with some transfer news.... Elder Pedersen is heading to Kharkov and I am going to be TRAINING! I don't know who my trainee is yet or anything but I'll go and find out on Wednesday! First I want to go over this week a little bit though! This week I wanted to write a little different of an email though! This week I've been thinking a lot about gratitude and the thought that I've heard many times about taking note of our miracles came to mine so I want to share with you some miracles of this week! After our P-day preparations and what not we were out contacting for 2 hours and after an hour and a half we had talked to some people gave some BofMs out. We came to this corner and stood there for a second and really felt impressed to go one way in particular. There we met this man who has been having a really rough month. We told him the message of the Restoration and that his Father in Heaven loves him so much. Although he ...

Hello Everybody!! I'm so happy I get to write you all and tell you how I'm doing like this each week!! I'd also would always always love to hear from you and what you've got going on that you are excited about!!  This week was a really fast one it was super crazy! I'm not even totally sure where to start I'll just try and go through not leaving anything out! On monday we had planned a lesson with this woman we are teaching Tatyana she's absolutely awesome! She's the happiest person I have ever met. But this week she got sick so she couldn't meet and it was so sad hearing here usually happy self sick and miserable. We are hoping she get better soon so we can keep teaching her! Tuesday was pretty good! We had a lesson with Galina and those are always really good and really powerful. Right now she realizes it's all so important she knows it is all true we just can't seem to figure out what is holding her back! She's so re...

       Hello everyone!!  I hope you are all doing super well! This week was a pretty good one! We don't really have any crazy or exciting news with those we are teaching right now all is kinda going about the same be we still had some really great moments! Monday we drove down to Odessa which is like a 2 1/2 hour drive but no one else was in the bus so we had all this space and we just kinda took some naps so it wasn't too bad at all! When we got there I was amazed! Odessa is such a fancy place. Everyone there was all fancy and stuff and everything was more expensive! There was even a dominos pizza place which was ridiculous. Basically, it's like just way fancier than anywhere else I have been so far in Ukraine and I thought that was cool. Sadly I didn't take any pictures so we'll have to wait til when we are there next month again for zone conference.  Tuesday was the zone conference and it was really good and uplifting! We talke...