Hello again everyone!
This past week was a good one for us. We met with this woman we found tracting a week and a half ago and had a lesson with her that went very well, even though it seemed like it shouldn't have. We arrived, and she invited us in and had us sit down. The room we were in just happened to be the one with the TV in it, so she had to shoo her husband away and turn it off so we could have our lesson. We began and taught her about our heavenly father, families, prophets and dispensations, Christ's earthly ministry, the great apostasy, and the Restoration, when her thirty-something daughter came in, drunk, and started yelling about how she wanted to watch TV but we were hogging the room. The woman we were teaching--Anna--told her to be patient and wait, and the daughter left. We started going again, and were right about to finish when Anna's son came in and decided that he'd sit in on the lesson as sort of a "counterpoint" against us. We retaught some of the lesson so he could hear, but he--also a little tipsy--kept telling us that his pastor told him not to trust Mormons. We were having Anna read out of our copy of the Bible, so he stopped us and grabbed his copy, not trusting ours (we found out when he got back that we had the same Bibles; he wasn't happy). Finally, he stood up to leave, then turned to Anna and said, "Babushka, you can't let these men confuse you." She looked at him and said, "These men have explained the Bible much clearer than you or our pastor have! Maybe they've come to help my sinful soul!" It was amazing; you could feel the difference between when we taught with the spirit, and when her son taught from his own understanding, and I know Anna could feel the difference too.
Anyways, that's my spiritual thought for the week, now here's my culture lesson. In Ukraine, or at least in Kiev, McDonalds restaurants are everywhere. And the food they serve tastes far better than its American counterpart. The hamburgers are far bigger and better tasting, and the french fries are really good. The food is slightly cheaper than America too, although they recently changed their dollar menu (well...the "five gryven menu") to be slightly more expensive. The restaurants themselves are nice too, with these big plasma TVs hanging from the ceiling playing music videos. The funny thing is, because they're so nice, they've become the example of a good restaurant. If someone here goes to a restaurant they don't like, they say "Well, it wasn't McDonalds."
All right, I've run out of time unfortunately, but I love you all, and I hope you have a good week!
--Elder Brett Hurst
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