ALLO

Allo,

That is how you answer the phone over here. It is pretty funny because whenever little kids see us they always say that to us. Its way funny. Well i am excited for those two packages whenever i finally get them. Who knows when it will be. Thanks for sending them. Sounds like Makenna and Gavin have already changed a lot since i have left. It will be exciting to see them in 2010. Haha that is so far away to put it like that. What was in my room that you went for? Just curious. Hows the blanket holding up without me? Every once in a while when i wake up in the middle of the night i reach for it. Haha i miss that thing. Jesus the Christ is a really good book but is a hard read. i am reading it right now so good luck with that. Well everything here in Ukraine is going good still. We went bowling today before we did email and it is crazy how cheap it was. It was 7 dollars for 3 people to play 3 games. It is crazy how cheap everything is here. On saturday it rained all day and that is when we have sports so we went out and played frisby in the mud. It was awesome and reminded me of that one football game i had when it rained like crazy. I will try to send pictures of it. Saturday was also a holiday here so we went on that street where everyone walks and had a good time there. People here are crazy. I am in a 3 some with the other Elders who serve in Nikolaev until thursday when my new companion will get here. From what i hear about him he is a really cool elder and likes to work hard. So that will be exciting. And he is coming to me so i thankfully dont have to go to Dnepr. Thats crazy the church will be done so soon. Does that mean you are going to get put into a new ward? That would be so crazy to come back to a different ward. Haha i cant even imagine that. Last week was really busy and i cant even think of what we did except for the mud thing. And about conference i am pretty sure we will be able to watch it but it will be in Russian. Haha so that will be interesting. The missionaries in American seriously have no idea how lucky they are with everything they have. Haha it was be so easy in America. Haha i wouldnt trade Ukraine for it though thats for sure. This place is awesome. Anyway I hope everything is going well for you two and i love you so much. We will have to come back here after my mission so i can show you around. And the key word was after. Haha that means i come home and then we come back. :) Our English is fetching rocking. We have about 15 people that come to our advance class and 45 or so total. Its awesome. We meet with them at the Branch House. Anyway I love you again and hope everything is going well. Talk to you next week. First transfer down in country. Oh yea by the way if you ever Talk to Elder Gardners mom anymore tell her that his girlfriends sister is in my District. Sister Hardman. Anyways love you both again. See ya. Elder Hukill

Haven't Done Anything Stupid

Hey, Sounds like everything is going good in the Western Hemisphere. I didnt know we got a new Stake Presidency though. What are they going to do when the Stake Center is done in Diamond Valley? Had my first Zone Conference on Saturday and that was great. WE went to a city called Hair sown. That is how it is pronounced. It is hard to type russian words in english. Anyways the Russian is still coming along good. I understand alot but some times i just have to guess what the person said to me. But it will get better. I get my new companion next thursday so that is exciting. And dont get my wrong i love my companion now we work hard but it just feels like we waste some time. We talked about it though and got it taken care of. Haha and what the heck where did Drew come in with the car buy? Sneak attack eh? Well thats good that he bought it. How much is he paying on it? And yes i can know because it is my car. That is good that Jared is starting. Tell him i say good luck and when he does catch the ball just to run as fast and has hard as he can even if there is someone standing in his way. Haha Chad Johnson is fetching crazy. That is so funny that he did that.The office called and said i have a package but i dont know which one it is. I wont get it for 2 weeks though. We only get mail and stuff on Zone Conferences and Transfers. And it is crazy that there are no mountains here. It really does freak me out because it is so flat here. Haha and on the picture with the Toilet Seat up i put it up so you could see how different they are from American toilets. We are still working with BoBa and are actually meeting with him tonight so we will see how that goes. The work over here is a lot different though in other missions. English and the other activites we do are the main way that we contact people. My companion and I sang in the talent show we had on saturday. We sang Praise to the Man. Haha it was great. Anyway everything is going good over here and it sounds like you had a great time with the kids. Anyway talk to you next week. Love you both. Dont worry i am still safe and havent done anything stupid.

Live and Learn

Hey Everyone

I am glad that you enjoyed the pictures and i will try to send some more today if i get a chance to do it. Sounds like you had a good time in Atlanta and thats to bad about all of that stuff you had to throw out. Haha the funny thing about you saying "Live and Learn" I actually learned how to say that in Russian last week. So that was pretty funny. Everything is going pretty well over here in the Eastern Hemisphere. I dont know much about whatever is going on in Russia but nobody here seems to be to concerned about it. We went across one of the bridges here where they have some of the biggest house thats I have ever seen. They were huge. The difference between the classes here is amazing. There is not a real big middle class here. Our branch president is a way nice guy who is a school teacher and actually teaches English so he knows it really well. My companion is going to get transferred to become the new AP. So that means I am getting a new one from somewhere. That means Iam going to have to show my new companion around so I need to start learning the streets better. But I am excited for him and excited to get a new companion. I have learned a lot from Elder Sessions and hopefully will learn more. He is a good guy.Crazy stuff happens everyday so its hard to remember what to send you. We are teaching this kid named BoBa (remember B are V's in russian) and he is reading the Book of Mormon and coming to church which is really good. So hopefully that goes somewhere good. We have a washing machine but thats it. We have to hang our clothes up on a line. Its better than I thought it was going to be. Well I love you guys and I hope everything is going well for you. DAD you of all people should know never to leave a game early. Haha oh well. Who is the Utes QB this year? All of the kids here like to learn how to throw a football. They are terrible at it. Haha. Hows the Business? Tyson still working? Well talk to you later.

Elder Hukill