Thursday, January 22, 2009
So the internet has been figured out thankfully. There is way more snow here than in Kyiv. It is piled so high on the side of the road. The train was long and we were so tired when we got here. Erin is fantastic! God has really blessed us with her. She has gone through so much like figuring out where things are so we don't have to. The three of us are going to get along great. Today Mike took us shopping and we got everything we might need like food, blankets, and other things. That took up most of the day. We had prayer meeting tonight and it is NOTHING like our prayer meetings. First, Ukrainians stand when they pray and tonight we prayed for over an hour. In the beginning I hated what we were doing, I could pray just fine sitting at home. But then I remembered a song Ken Wilson played about what if his people prayed. Prayer is so powerful and I realized this is what it's about, coming together and talking to God. There were a large amount of people there and we first all prayed together and then in small groups. There were a good number of people that I remembered from the week I spent here last March. The Ukrainians here want you to know Russian SO badly! So Erin has started teaching us and I know most of the Russian alphabet that has 31 letters to our 26. We are also learning objects, Erin has labels on everything! We are jumping straight into our work and are teaching tomorrow. We are going to my favorite school, the Transport College. Here they have separate colleges for each vocation. The students at the Transport College are mostly boys and their English is usually poor. But they are the most eager to learn. So there is not slowing down now!
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Isn't God good!!! Sounds like you are off and running on a fantastic ministry experience. I will look forward to hearing about it day by day. Please be assured of my prayers for you. Good luck with learning Russian. I love you. Papaw
ReplyDeleteWhat a smart and creative way to learn a new language! Tell Erin that I think she's a genius!
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Your first vocabulary lesson should include "no thanks. I don't care for turkey hearts."
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Hey Rach! I am so glad you are settled in. If Mike is still w/ you, tell him I need more pottery!!!!! Just kidding---when we were there, I purchased mine off the shelf at the museum!!!! Do you have a mailing address, if so send it to me please. Enjoy your time there and we are praying for you. Aunt Re
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