Elder Matua: 18 March

We're finding!

First off happy birthday to the boys back home! Love you Mica and Quinn, keep tearin up on the field.

We had a super busy week, packed full with lessons. I was blessed to come into an area where the elders had prepared so many people to teach. I'll share one funny story that happened to us this week. We called a less active member named Andriy to meet with him around 5 o'clock on Wednesday. So we were at the church waiting for him to come when one of our investigators, also named Andriy, walks in. We started freaking out thinking that we called the wrong Andriy and also we had planned for the wrong lesson and ya we were just panicking. We started talking to him and just decided to straight up ask him if we called him earlier that morning. We then said, "No I texted you asking to meet and you replied saying you could meet at 5". We were lost bruh. So we ran upstairs to ask the sisters if they had a lesson and they said yes. Come to find out that he (Andriy) texted our old phone (the one that the sisters now have) and that's why he was here and the sisters thought that it was one of their investigators because his number was not saved. BUT we decided to go ahead and have a lesson with him and if our less-active member shows up at 5 we will have to try to figure something out. I don't know if Heavenly Father just wanted to give us a little scare but it ended up being perfect. The other Andriy came an hour late so we had a lesson with him after our lesson with the other Andriy. MIRACLE! Sorry if that was confusing. Probably every other male you stop in this country will be named Andriy so I'm still confused most the time as well.

We had a really good exchange with the missionaries from Khmelnytskyi. I got to spend the day with Elder Swasey. He is a great missionary and very, very, very energetic which kinda tired me out but we laughed all day and had tons of fun. We had a pretty successful finding activity while they were here. We put up pictures of temples and a lot of people stopped to look. Chernivtsi is actually sister cities with Salt Lake City so everybody here knows where that is.

More finding in the town square

Yesterday the district president came here to speak to us and hold a bunch of branch council business and all that fun stuff. I love hearing his testimony. It is amazing. I always look forward to hearing him speak when I know he is gonna be here. We also got to take the sacrament to a couple sisters in the branch and was able to offer a blessing for one of them. A really neat experience.

Sorry for such a long letter but it was a pretty good week. Learned a lot and can't wait to keep learning more. All of us missionaries are on the edge of our seats waiting for General Conference. None of us even know if there will be anything about missionaries but we are all anxious to know.

Have an amazing week love you all!
Elder Kenyon Matua