SCRIPT & POSY: Week 68- AUGUST- Awkward & Awesome In Kiev Ukraine

AWESOME

When your Zone Leader appoints you as District Leader for the day and the entire district texts you telling you that they are home. Is this what power feels like?
Scarfing down Sharma and a banana right outside the house of your lesson, nothing like meaty, pickled carrot, banana breath for a lesson on the Plan of Salvation
When members call US and invite US over for a lesson! And all after only sending a simple, "Happy Anniversary! Hope your day is full of love!" text. It really goes to show what little acts of kindness really can do. (READ: FOLLOWING UP. This is where true missionary work comes from!)
When you investigator is progressing great! Progressing investigators are great!
When you have a big empty chunk to your day that destiny would not allow you to fill up (aka everybody you call tell you ,"No") and happen to have the perfect amount of time to go and say goodbye to Sister Anderson.
Learning that PROGRESS=PERFECTION (in our own sphere)
While others plan weddings and baptisms on their mission we are trying to get sweet girls to break up with their punk boyfriends
Introducing Ukrainians to the delicious art of SMORES
When you have a good classic "bad" day: 5 seconds outside and saying "Good Evening" to a woman and getting cut off with a big and bold "DASVIDANYA!" 5 minutes later getting splashed by gutter water while standing at a crosswalk, and while sitting on a bus making a girl so scared she ran out of the bus dropping her wallet along the way, and then accidently contacting your way to Maidan (forbidden for missionaries) and then getting, once again, gutter splashed on the way home. Good day.

AWKWARD

Body pains of being a missionary
Asking a taxi driver if he has a family and him replying, "Why? YOU WANNA MARRY ME?!"
When the pay for youth in Ukraine is on the verge of employment abuse. 100 greiven a day= $8 a day= $1 an hour, oh but don't forget you get to eat one whole corn on the cob for the day.
When a Provoslavnic priest blesses you with a sprinkling of holy water on your way over the metro..."Oh! and thank you for that refreshing splash in the eye."
Washing the dishes and lifting a plate to find a big fat soggy dead cockroach chilling out in some soggy bran flakes
Fishing out a big fat soggy dead cockroach with two spoons. One to catch, one to nudge it in the right direction
When you're sitting with one of your English students listening to an Elder tell a story about scars he received but can't show due to the location (upper right shoulder) and then hearing her yell, "STRIP! WHOO!" And proceed to attempt to laugh the awkwardness right out of the room...
When it's actually painful to wake up
When a fellow missionary's face gets bit by a dog...
When your having a lesson in a beautiful forest and begin to testify and have a spider crawl on your shoulder
When homeless people in Kiev start to cause an unstable situation by throwing riots when militia tries to clear them out of Maidan
Considering to cancel Sports Night due to the bomb threat down in the metro...

Random color shot....this is me and Liza! Just walked up to her in the Metro one day, and now visit her once a week because she is no longer able to come to English due to employment abuse