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