March 16, 2009

DO YOU EVER WONDER WHAT A HUMANITARIAN COUPLE DOES ON A MISSION???



We are busy trying to close the last of our projects before we go home. Last week we delivered tables and chairs, beds, bedding, toy shelves and toilets and sinks to a Kindergarten for children with Language Delays.Then we delivered some badly needed medical equipment to a Trauma Department in Makeyevka. We don't physically deliver the items ourselves, the vendors do that part. We just have a visit with the organization to be sure that all the items that the Humanitarian Funds paid for have been delivered and installed.We also closed another Hospital Project last week. Today we took our Health Fair to a Day Facility for Handicapped Young Adults. They asked us to do the Puppet Show on Addiction. It seems their clients are beginning to drink and smoke.So that is how we started our week. We have 3 more contracts that were sent in this week for an Aid's facility, an Orphanage in Kharkiv, and a Hospital that requested a Defibrillator. We are waiting for delivery on a project in Mariupol where we bought computers and braille paper for a blind school. We also have 2 more Kindergartens and a boarding school that we hope to go to very soon once their equipment if delivered.

Olga and I are going to a conference tomorrow on how church's can help with adoption and foster care to the Orphans of Ukraine. I believe that it will be sponsored by an American Organization.It is 3 days long but we can only go for 2 days because we are off to Kharkiv on Thursday for the Nove Doma Open House. We will do the Puppet show there with Elders Fedotov and Thompson. We will also go to a Homeless Shelter in Kharkiv to see some beds and a refrigerator that were donated by Humanitarian Funds.

So we are very happy that we are seeing so many organizations receive the badly needed items that we promised several months ago. It is fun to see the smiling faces of the people who will benefit from the donations.

March 11, 2009

TONIGHT WE HAD AN AWESOME LESSON IN OUR HOME

Yuraslav and Volva came over and we had a great lesson on General Conference. We talked about Modern Day Prophets and Revelation. We discussed the importance of listening to our Prophets Inspired Council. The Elders challenged Yuraslav and Vulva to invite someone to General Conference. They both agreed to do that. After the lesson we had refreshments (the Elders brought homemade brownies) and then played a fun game. I am so grateful to know these wonderful missionaries and to have the opportunity to have them and these great young men in our home.

DISTRICT MEETINGS

Today we had district meeting at our house. I remembered to catch a picture of these 4 before they left. Elders Kerr and Greener had to leave and get to YOUTH NIGHT at the church. It was a great meeting. Everyone came prepared and excited to have a great District. We set some new goals and are really going to work on UNITY in our District. I think Elder Kerr will do a great job being District Leader and Elders Hulet and Johnson are awesome Zone Leaders. Tomorrow is Zone Conference.

March 10, 2009

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ELDER KINGHORN

Love,

MARRIAGE


THIRTY YEARS AGO...........................
BRUCE AND I EXCHANGED WEDDING VOWS IN A CUTE LITTLE WEDDING CHAPEL IN FOLSOM CALIFORNIA.....................................
SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE IT WAS JUST YESTERDAY THAT I WALKED INTO HIS CLASSROOM FOR THE FIRST TIME...........................
AND OTHER TIMES.............................
I CAN'T REMEMBER MY LIFE WITHOUT HIM........................
I CAN'T IMAGINE NOT HAVING HIM BY MY SIDE.............................
NOT HAVING HIM THERE TO COME HOME TO AT NIGHT...........
NOT HAVING HIM THERE TO SHARE ALL THE WONDERFUL, EXCITING, THRILLING,
AND CHALLENGING TIMES IN MY LIFE............................
HE HAS BEEN MY CONSTANT COMPANION..........................
MY BEST FRIEND AND CONFIDANT...................................
OUR LIFE TOGETHER HAS BEEN FULL OF WONDERFUL ADVENTURE.......................
AND NO MATTER WHAT BRUCE HAS ALWAYS, ALWAYS, MADE ME AND THE
CHILDREN KNOW THAT WE ARE LOVED AND APPRECIATED..............................
HE IS MY ROCK.................................
I AM SO GRATEFUL THAT HE IS MY ETERNAL COMPANION. I AM GRATEFUL THAT WE HAD THIS PAST 17 MONTHS TO SERVE AS MISSIONARY COMPANIONS HERE IN UKRAINE.
OUR LIVES HAVE BEEN ENRICHED, OUR MARRIAGE HAS BEEN BLESSED BECAUSE OF THIS WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

Saints in Ukraine (put music on pause)

My music


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Armenia Trip

Our last Zone Conference

Some of the faces we will miss

Our trip to Mariupol

March Zone Conference in Donetsk(click on photo to view a larger version)

Missionaries helping the International Relief Development unload a container from America

Health Fair click on the photo to see what is coming up

To listen to this talk you will need to put the music on pause first

Sometimes we forget what divine gifts we have been given. President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, 2nd Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Thanksgiving

Look at the fun equipment we got to deliver to this internat for Special Needs children

Europe East Area District Meeting

I LOVE THESE MISSIONARIES

OUR APARTMENT (this is not an average missionary apartment)

THIS IS WHAT MISSIONARY APARTMENTS LOOK LIKE ON INSPECTION DAY

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LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN THE KALINSKY BUILDING

Click on photo to see more photos of the Open House at the Kalininsky blg