Here are some pictures of Tyler enjoying the good life in Ukraine.
These are some of the people they are teaching English to
Elder Sessions (his comp) and Ty (obviously)
Solviet (this is like the Boulevard on drugs)
The name of the strip club
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Hey, American Boy
My russian is coming along not as quick as i would like but its alright. It will come and i am understanding more and more everyday day. Still have no idea what is going on for the most part but its getting better. I should have fixed our water heater but it probably would have blown up on us if we would have tried. We didnt really shower when it was broken. Haha we showered twice a week over at the other Elders apartment. But its fixed now with as good of water pressure as we have when the pivot and sprinklers are on. It alright though whatever. They just eat normal meat here. We pretty much though just eat noodles and eggs and potatoes. We tried to make this other stuff but it was nasty for breakfast so we just ate noodles instead. The juice here is amazing and i probably drink more juice here than i have total before i came out. Its so good. Haha it was funny. I had to speak yesterday in sacrament so that was interesting. It went pretty well but everyone was looking at me like i was a little kid who didnt know anything. It was funny. We had 13 investigators at church yesterday and ask Michael about 7 of them. I told him the story. We have only been tracting twice but we go in the huge apartments so there are like 4 doors right by each other so it makes it easy. I dont know why there are only 6 of us here though. Its probably a good thing though because the other companionship seems to like to waste time and suck us into it. It gets pretty frustrating to me sometimes because we dont do anything sometimes but i just sit there and endure it. It really does annoy me though. The place that we email you from in just an internet club that they have here called BFG. It is ridiculous how many people come in here and play games for so long. I am so glad i never got into gaming way big. English classes are going really great. There are like 30 or so people that come so its going really good. Plus according to one of the sisters who knows Elder Gardner from the MTC she said that since she has been here she has seen a complete turn around.
Letter Tyler sent to Michael
Haha time is chipping away and it is already flying by. I have already been in country for almost 4 weeks now. I had to speak in church yesterday and it was funny because everyone was just looking at me like i was some little handicap kid who didnt know anything. They all told me good job after but it was fetching scary. We had 13 investigators at church yesterday. There were so many. 7 of them were like other missionaries i dont even know what church but for 3 hours after church they like talked to us about the church. Ok well heres what really happened. There were 4 missionaries and our Branch President and 2 Adults and 5 kids for them. And their adults especially this lady new the bible better than anyone i have ever seen before in my life. She seriously would like be looking up finding scriptures. So for 3 hours her and her buddy took on our Branch President while everyone just sat there. For the most part i had no idea what was going on. But according to my companion our Branch President owned them. And from what i understood he did too. I understand more and more words so its getting better but for the most part i have no idea whats going on. But yea our Branch President is the man. Then we had to Black guys from Nigeria come in there fetching sweet robes. They are so sweet.So there is one story for you. But here is another one. I dont know if mom told you are not but on the first day i took an 8 hour bus ride to this city with these crazy drunk kids who love americans so that was exciting. Then the next day we went out on the street and some guy came up and jacked my planner and i ran after him and got it back and stuff. But i saw that guy again when we were leaving the internet club and he was like "Hey American Boy" in english and then tried to steal my stuff again so i slapped his hand down and then he grabbed my tie so i hit his arm again and we left. But then he got physical with the other elders after that. So we will see what happens from here on out. Crazy stuff goes on here every day. It seriously is nuts.
Letter Tyler sent to Michael
Haha time is chipping away and it is already flying by. I have already been in country for almost 4 weeks now. I had to speak in church yesterday and it was funny because everyone was just looking at me like i was some little handicap kid who didnt know anything. They all told me good job after but it was fetching scary. We had 13 investigators at church yesterday. There were so many. 7 of them were like other missionaries i dont even know what church but for 3 hours after church they like talked to us about the church. Ok well heres what really happened. There were 4 missionaries and our Branch President and 2 Adults and 5 kids for them. And their adults especially this lady new the bible better than anyone i have ever seen before in my life. She seriously would like be looking up finding scriptures. So for 3 hours her and her buddy took on our Branch President while everyone just sat there. For the most part i had no idea what was going on. But according to my companion our Branch President owned them. And from what i understood he did too. I understand more and more words so its getting better but for the most part i have no idea whats going on. But yea our Branch President is the man. Then we had to Black guys from Nigeria come in there fetching sweet robes. They are so sweet.So there is one story for you. But here is another one. I dont know if mom told you are not but on the first day i took an 8 hour bus ride to this city with these crazy drunk kids who love americans so that was exciting. Then the next day we went out on the street and some guy came up and jacked my planner and i ran after him and got it back and stuff. But i saw that guy again when we were leaving the internet club and he was like "Hey American Boy" in english and then tried to steal my stuff again so i slapped his hand down and then he grabbed my tie so i hit his arm again and we left. But then he got physical with the other elders after that. So we will see what happens from here on out. Crazy stuff goes on here every day. It seriously is nuts.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Hello Western Hemisphere
Hey,
Well its Preparation Day in the good old Ukraine and its high noon which means its 3 in the morning over there. I made it to Nikolaev safe and sound at about midnight. The roads here fetching suck. There are huge holes and everything. Haha its so fun though i love it. The way that i think they do it here is they build it once and that is it. They dont keep anything maintained. So the little trolley bus that they have that goes by our apartment seriously sounds like a tank and it shakes our apartment. The driving here is fetching out of control. They really dont have speed limits or anything like that. So its a good time when you are trying to cross streets. Its so awesome. I really do love it here already. I say hi to everybody when we walk (and we walk everywhere and alot of it) and for the most part people just ignore me or i will wave to people who are staring at us and nobody waves back. It rocks. Everyone stares at us because we are in our shirts and ties and Americans so its a good way to contact people. I have a feeling that i am going to have some awesome stories coming out of here. Something crazy has happened everyday so far. The bus ride down was crazy it was me and my companion and another Elder who had gotten transfered down to Nikolaev but we sat in the back and these 20 year old drunk kids talked to us for the entire time. They were drunk out of there minds and were so excited to see Americans. They talked the entire time and of course i have no idea what they are even talking so it was pretty funny. The language is coming along though alright. I pick up words here and there and try to piece everything together. Its going to be tough though but whatever. There are about 30 members in our branch and we actually have a little building for it. There are 4 Men and the rest are women or kids. Its crazy. They are awesome though and i am excited to be down here in Nikolaev. I have a feeling that i am going to be down here for a quite a while. Its crazy because the girls here where clothes that you wouldnt even see on our beaches. They are all way hot to so it sucks way bad. I seriously just walk with my eyes down and my eye control is freaking amazing.Ill just tell a quick little story about what happend to me my first full day here. We (4 of us) were passing out english invitaions when these guy comes up and gets in my face and asks me if i want pot or alcohol so i said no and tried to get by him when he started trying to steal stuff out of my pocket so i was like pushing his hands away so i just took my planner out and gave it to him and he left but then i remember i had stuff in it i needed so i ran after him and took it from him and another Elder gave him Book of Mormon to have and so he took it and ran off. It was so fetching awesome. Haha i was just laughing the whole time and my trainer (who is from North Ogden, plays soccer and is a way tight kid) just stood there and was laughing because we all thought this guy was kidding. It was so funny. He has some pretty awesome stories to so its going to be awesome here. And dont worry about me ok? Seriously i will be alright. :) Our apartment is pretty nice compared to others. There is no AC any where in Ukraine except some places and our toilet is crazy. It is like 2 feet deep. We have to lite our hot water thing everytime we shower but its nice because so far i havent had a cold shower yet. I sleep like a baby because we walk so much. Everything is going good though. Thanks for all of your support and everything. I love you and ill talk to you next week. See ya. Elder Hukill
Well its Preparation Day in the good old Ukraine and its high noon which means its 3 in the morning over there. I made it to Nikolaev safe and sound at about midnight. The roads here fetching suck. There are huge holes and everything. Haha its so fun though i love it. The way that i think they do it here is they build it once and that is it. They dont keep anything maintained. So the little trolley bus that they have that goes by our apartment seriously sounds like a tank and it shakes our apartment. The driving here is fetching out of control. They really dont have speed limits or anything like that. So its a good time when you are trying to cross streets. Its so awesome. I really do love it here already. I say hi to everybody when we walk (and we walk everywhere and alot of it) and for the most part people just ignore me or i will wave to people who are staring at us and nobody waves back. It rocks. Everyone stares at us because we are in our shirts and ties and Americans so its a good way to contact people. I have a feeling that i am going to have some awesome stories coming out of here. Something crazy has happened everyday so far. The bus ride down was crazy it was me and my companion and another Elder who had gotten transfered down to Nikolaev but we sat in the back and these 20 year old drunk kids talked to us for the entire time. They were drunk out of there minds and were so excited to see Americans. They talked the entire time and of course i have no idea what they are even talking so it was pretty funny. The language is coming along though alright. I pick up words here and there and try to piece everything together. Its going to be tough though but whatever. There are about 30 members in our branch and we actually have a little building for it. There are 4 Men and the rest are women or kids. Its crazy. They are awesome though and i am excited to be down here in Nikolaev. I have a feeling that i am going to be down here for a quite a while. Its crazy because the girls here where clothes that you wouldnt even see on our beaches. They are all way hot to so it sucks way bad. I seriously just walk with my eyes down and my eye control is freaking amazing.Ill just tell a quick little story about what happend to me my first full day here. We (4 of us) were passing out english invitaions when these guy comes up and gets in my face and asks me if i want pot or alcohol so i said no and tried to get by him when he started trying to steal stuff out of my pocket so i was like pushing his hands away so i just took my planner out and gave it to him and he left but then i remember i had stuff in it i needed so i ran after him and took it from him and another Elder gave him Book of Mormon to have and so he took it and ran off. It was so fetching awesome. Haha i was just laughing the whole time and my trainer (who is from North Ogden, plays soccer and is a way tight kid) just stood there and was laughing because we all thought this guy was kidding. It was so funny. He has some pretty awesome stories to so its going to be awesome here. And dont worry about me ok? Seriously i will be alright. :) Our apartment is pretty nice compared to others. There is no AC any where in Ukraine except some places and our toilet is crazy. It is like 2 feet deep. We have to lite our hot water thing everytime we shower but its nice because so far i havent had a cold shower yet. I sleep like a baby because we walk so much. Everything is going good though. Thanks for all of your support and everything. I love you and ill talk to you next week. See ya. Elder Hukill
Thursday, August 7, 2008
I MADE IT
Hey family,
Hey everybody. Well according to my watch you are all in bed right now so you wont get this for a little bit. I made it here and tried calling from Austria but there phones dont do the whole 1 800 thing so it didnt work. It was crazy flying in because everything is so flat and alot of farms. The flight wasnt that bad and it seemed to go by quickly. We placed 3 book of mormons and even one in russian to an old lady and i talked to her in russian for a little bit. It was pretty awesome. President Abraham and some other people were there to pick us up from airport. All of my luggage made it but one of the others stuff got left in Austria. President Abraham said he tried calling to tell that i was alive but nobody answered. This place is out of control. There are no mountains at all, the people are tight and they all smoke. Right when we got here we went contacting and started passing out english fliers right aways. Some people completely ignored me but i just laughed and kept walking. I cant believe that i am actually in Ukraine now after waiting for however long. The driving is crazy! We were driving with President Abraham and it was seriously worse then Mexico. He is a way awesome man and a really funny one. He even started racing somebody. I slept like a dead man the first night and we slept over at the Assistants apartment in the hood. Its so awesome here. Nobody waves when I wave at them but its all good. I found out where i am going and who my trainer is. His name is Elder Hesson and thats about all i know. According to the Assistants he is the coolest Elder in the field so whatever that means. And i got assigned to serve in a city South West of Dnepr called Nikolaev and i have about an 8 hour bus ride today. Haha so that will be exciting. Last night they had a meeting for us with some of the members from the branch. It was really cool. We had some Borush which was good but then i had the nasty drink. The members are really nice here and i had to stand up and introduce myself but now i am going to a different city. I already love it here and its going to be way fun and am excited for it. Well i love you and tell everyone i said hi.Elder Hukill
Hey everybody. Well according to my watch you are all in bed right now so you wont get this for a little bit. I made it here and tried calling from Austria but there phones dont do the whole 1 800 thing so it didnt work. It was crazy flying in because everything is so flat and alot of farms. The flight wasnt that bad and it seemed to go by quickly. We placed 3 book of mormons and even one in russian to an old lady and i talked to her in russian for a little bit. It was pretty awesome. President Abraham and some other people were there to pick us up from airport. All of my luggage made it but one of the others stuff got left in Austria. President Abraham said he tried calling to tell that i was alive but nobody answered. This place is out of control. There are no mountains at all, the people are tight and they all smoke. Right when we got here we went contacting and started passing out english fliers right aways. Some people completely ignored me but i just laughed and kept walking. I cant believe that i am actually in Ukraine now after waiting for however long. The driving is crazy! We were driving with President Abraham and it was seriously worse then Mexico. He is a way awesome man and a really funny one. He even started racing somebody. I slept like a dead man the first night and we slept over at the Assistants apartment in the hood. Its so awesome here. Nobody waves when I wave at them but its all good. I found out where i am going and who my trainer is. His name is Elder Hesson and thats about all i know. According to the Assistants he is the coolest Elder in the field so whatever that means. And i got assigned to serve in a city South West of Dnepr called Nikolaev and i have about an 8 hour bus ride today. Haha so that will be exciting. Last night they had a meeting for us with some of the members from the branch. It was really cool. We had some Borush which was good but then i had the nasty drink. The members are really nice here and i had to stand up and introduce myself but now i am going to a different city. I already love it here and its going to be way fun and am excited for it. Well i love you and tell everyone i said hi.Elder Hukill
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Last Email from America
Dear Family,
Well its the last time that i will be emailing from the MTC. Haha In this hemisphere for that matter. I am so fetching stoked to get over there. Even though i will have no idea what is going on it will still be awesome just to be there. So we finally got our flight plans last friday. I leave the MTC at 5 am on tuesday. I leave Salt Lake at 8:43 am and fly to washington DC. It says i will get there at 3 and i am assuming that it still Utah time on the schedule. But then i leave there at 6 so i will be calling sometime in between then. I dont know what you want to do about that so just let me know. I am going to need phone numbers though of whoever i am going to call. And thanks for the phone card. Haha 800 minutes! that is a long time. Any ways i fly from DC to Austria and dont get there until 8 40 the next day and from Austria i Fly to Dnepr and get there at like 2:10pm on the 6th of august. Haha so talk about alot of flying eh? That is going to be along time. Anyway, everything here is going pretty well. Just getting ready to pack and sorry Mom you cant come and pack for me. Haha. Tell Grandma thanks for that Fruit. it was....delicious? No just kidding its the thought that counts. It was really nice of her. I love her. Sounds like my car is getting ready to leave the family. Thats good and kind of sad to me. Such a good car. Sounds like you had a good time at the Rodeo last week. Haha i wonder who those girls were because i dont know anybody in Enterprise. Especially anybody that would know you because of me. Oh well I kind of enjoy the fact that people recongize you because of me. Thanks for the pictures from Powell. Haha i really liked the one with the Plates. Even though i didnt recognize some people in it and michael is half cut off in it and Brent and Bryan are in the back haha. And i cant believe Makenna really jumped off the top or was thrown off the top by dad one of the two. She is fetching crazy. But i picked out my loyal sister up from because she is the only one who writes me and seems to remember. Tell Michael i leave the country next week and he has a phone that gets internet service anywhere and to write me. And i will enjoy bree's letter when they get here.
The 100% russian has really helped my language and grammer alot even though i know it is nothing like a native speaking it. But i can communicate with all the Elders and my teachers decently. I just started reading that Jesus the Christ book and it is huge. I cant believe he read that thing 4 times. So far from what i have read it contains some good stuff in it. Anyway, everything is going good up here and i dont really have much more to say. So yea just send me some numbers and i will see what i can do. I am excited to talk to you all next week. It will be so weird to hear your voices though. Well i love you all and i will try and write this week but if not then i will talk to you next week. Love you. Thanks for all the support. Oh and dad i dont really care what stuff you want to send in a package. Just whatever you are feeling. Chips and Salsa are one thing though. Love you all.Elder Hukill
Well its the last time that i will be emailing from the MTC. Haha In this hemisphere for that matter. I am so fetching stoked to get over there. Even though i will have no idea what is going on it will still be awesome just to be there. So we finally got our flight plans last friday. I leave the MTC at 5 am on tuesday. I leave Salt Lake at 8:43 am and fly to washington DC. It says i will get there at 3 and i am assuming that it still Utah time on the schedule. But then i leave there at 6 so i will be calling sometime in between then. I dont know what you want to do about that so just let me know. I am going to need phone numbers though of whoever i am going to call. And thanks for the phone card. Haha 800 minutes! that is a long time. Any ways i fly from DC to Austria and dont get there until 8 40 the next day and from Austria i Fly to Dnepr and get there at like 2:10pm on the 6th of august. Haha so talk about alot of flying eh? That is going to be along time. Anyway, everything here is going pretty well. Just getting ready to pack and sorry Mom you cant come and pack for me. Haha. Tell Grandma thanks for that Fruit. it was....delicious? No just kidding its the thought that counts. It was really nice of her. I love her. Sounds like my car is getting ready to leave the family. Thats good and kind of sad to me. Such a good car. Sounds like you had a good time at the Rodeo last week. Haha i wonder who those girls were because i dont know anybody in Enterprise. Especially anybody that would know you because of me. Oh well I kind of enjoy the fact that people recongize you because of me. Thanks for the pictures from Powell. Haha i really liked the one with the Plates. Even though i didnt recognize some people in it and michael is half cut off in it and Brent and Bryan are in the back haha. And i cant believe Makenna really jumped off the top or was thrown off the top by dad one of the two. She is fetching crazy. But i picked out my loyal sister up from because she is the only one who writes me and seems to remember. Tell Michael i leave the country next week and he has a phone that gets internet service anywhere and to write me. And i will enjoy bree's letter when they get here.
The 100% russian has really helped my language and grammer alot even though i know it is nothing like a native speaking it. But i can communicate with all the Elders and my teachers decently. I just started reading that Jesus the Christ book and it is huge. I cant believe he read that thing 4 times. So far from what i have read it contains some good stuff in it. Anyway, everything is going good up here and i dont really have much more to say. So yea just send me some numbers and i will see what i can do. I am excited to talk to you all next week. It will be so weird to hear your voices though. Well i love you all and i will try and write this week but if not then i will talk to you next week. Love you. Thanks for all the support. Oh and dad i dont really care what stuff you want to send in a package. Just whatever you are feeling. Chips and Salsa are one thing though. Love you all.Elder Hukill
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