07/27/2009
Hey,
Sounds like Lake Powell was a good time. But Grandpa and Deni didnt even go? That is crazy that it was such a small group. Haha yea next year it will be me and my wife. :) Haha whatever your dream said her name was. My companion and i are both the Zone Leaders so yea we go everywhere together. He is from Salt Lake City and his name is Elder Hertz. I have known him since the beginning of my mission because he was in nikolaev when i got there. He is cool and we get along great. He plays sports to so we play alot of sports to find kids. English is going good and we still teach it and lots of people come. Haha mostly girls though. We try to activate people but most people who go inactive dont want anything to do with us. Sounds like alot of people were at Grandmas. I didnt know Billy got married. Haha tell him good job and i say whats up. Tell Jonathan to write me a letter. Wow Ben still has a long time until he leaves. That is crazy. But i got one package from you and Grandma Staheli so yea. But the people here are really nice and say hello to me but whenever i try to talk about the Book of Mormon they dont want anything to do with it. That is nuts that everybody is starting to come home. So crazy. One thing you can send me are some tide bleach pens. Those things are awesome. We just take busses and Taxis everywhere. But i got to go out again at 3:30am to go pick another Elder up from the train station. Haha seriously there is nobody out. McDonalds is the only place that is American but it is amazing. Today we went there and ate Breakfast and it was amazing. I love McMuffins. Haha but then we have been sitting around all day waiting to get registered in the city. It is crazy how much work goes in to keep us in the country. That is to bad about Wyns dad. Tell them sorry. Anyways thats about all going on here. Hope everything is going well for you.
Love you.
Elder Hukill
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Felt Like I Was In Hawaii
07/20/2009
Hey,
Whats going on? Well its monday again and i always hate the first week being in a new area because time goes by so slow. But right now i am in a city called sevastopol which is right on the Black Sea and this morning we went on a sweet hike in the mountains and saw the Sea. Its was really sweet. Haha i seriously felt like i was in Hawaii. It was really cool. But we are going to take a boat tour here in a little bit and are going to go see the Russian Fleet. We just were at this place where like nobody knew about during the Cold War and the Russians kept all of their subs there. Pretty cool. But yea the russians pretty much claim the Crimea as theirs but they just let Ukraine hold on to it. During the whole Georgia crisis thing the Russian goverment was passing out Russian passports down here to anybody who wanted one. Nuts. But that is so funny that Brad told that story about me and Chin. Good times. That is cool that you are going to Powell. Haha next year i will be there baby. Haha Kacen and Randon and Taylor should all be getting home soon and that is pretty crazy. My area is pretty nice and the bed is nice. Nobody really will stop and talk about the gospel though but they all say hi. That is cool that Kip is going on a mission and cool that Mcrae is on a mission. My city though isnt to hot but it is really humid so that makes up for it. We dont really have many investigators here like we did in Zap. Anyways things are going good here for the most part. Well see ya guys love you.
Elder Hukill
Hey,
Whats going on? Well its monday again and i always hate the first week being in a new area because time goes by so slow. But right now i am in a city called sevastopol which is right on the Black Sea and this morning we went on a sweet hike in the mountains and saw the Sea. Its was really sweet. Haha i seriously felt like i was in Hawaii. It was really cool. But we are going to take a boat tour here in a little bit and are going to go see the Russian Fleet. We just were at this place where like nobody knew about during the Cold War and the Russians kept all of their subs there. Pretty cool. But yea the russians pretty much claim the Crimea as theirs but they just let Ukraine hold on to it. During the whole Georgia crisis thing the Russian goverment was passing out Russian passports down here to anybody who wanted one. Nuts. But that is so funny that Brad told that story about me and Chin. Good times. That is cool that you are going to Powell. Haha next year i will be there baby. Haha Kacen and Randon and Taylor should all be getting home soon and that is pretty crazy. My area is pretty nice and the bed is nice. Nobody really will stop and talk about the gospel though but they all say hi. That is cool that Kip is going on a mission and cool that Mcrae is on a mission. My city though isnt to hot but it is really humid so that makes up for it. We dont really have many investigators here like we did in Zap. Anyways things are going good here for the most part. Well see ya guys love you.
Elder Hukill
Abraham's Homecoming
July 13, 2009
Hey,
That is cool that you got to go to the Abrahams homecoming. Haha that is so crazy that they are home. What else did they say? How many missionaries were there? That is cool that you got to see Sessions. Haha my papa! He is awesome. But anyways i made it down here to the Crimea finally and it is really awesome already. We took a fetching 8 hour bus ride from dnepr to here all night so i got here at 6 am on saturday and then at 8 we got to go to another city in the zone called evapotria or something like that in english so i got to see the Sea. It was really cool. Haha i felt like i was in hawaii for a little bit. But yea i think being Zone Leader in the Crimea is the best place to be because you get to go to all of the cities and the other missionaries cant. But its a lot cleaner than Zap is that is for sure. I think the work here is a lot different and alot harder but whatever. There are quite a few members here though and 256 on the roll but only about 60 come i think. I cant believe how many inactives there are in this country. There could be like 3 branches here if everybody came. but people get offended so easy its ridiculous. So dont get offended!That is funny that President talked about Pasha. Pasha is awesome and knows so many words haha. The new mission president is probably the exact opposite of President Abraham. He is quite and doesnt have as much energy but he is awesome. You can really feel the love that he already has for us here. But anyways leaving zap sucked kind of. It is hard because you get to know the people so well and then all of a sudden you have to leave them. But its a part of life and it just keeps on going. The packages are here but i didnt want to haul them down here with the rest of my luggage and President is coming on wedensday anyways so i am just waiting. My apartment here though is quite nice and i even have a queen size bed. Haha i dont use it all since i cuddle up with the wall but its there to use if i want. My companion though is Elder Hertz who i have known since the beginning of my mission in nikolaev and then in zap as well. He is awesome and i am glad to get to be with him. Well anyways that is about all that is going on around here for me. Its sweet to be here and i am grateful the Lord has blessed me and sent me here to the wonderful land of the Crimea. Hope all is well for you.
Love you guys.
Hey,
That is cool that you got to go to the Abrahams homecoming. Haha that is so crazy that they are home. What else did they say? How many missionaries were there? That is cool that you got to see Sessions. Haha my papa! He is awesome. But anyways i made it down here to the Crimea finally and it is really awesome already. We took a fetching 8 hour bus ride from dnepr to here all night so i got here at 6 am on saturday and then at 8 we got to go to another city in the zone called evapotria or something like that in english so i got to see the Sea. It was really cool. Haha i felt like i was in hawaii for a little bit. But yea i think being Zone Leader in the Crimea is the best place to be because you get to go to all of the cities and the other missionaries cant. But its a lot cleaner than Zap is that is for sure. I think the work here is a lot different and alot harder but whatever. There are quite a few members here though and 256 on the roll but only about 60 come i think. I cant believe how many inactives there are in this country. There could be like 3 branches here if everybody came. but people get offended so easy its ridiculous. So dont get offended!That is funny that President talked about Pasha. Pasha is awesome and knows so many words haha. The new mission president is probably the exact opposite of President Abraham. He is quite and doesnt have as much energy but he is awesome. You can really feel the love that he already has for us here. But anyways leaving zap sucked kind of. It is hard because you get to know the people so well and then all of a sudden you have to leave them. But its a part of life and it just keeps on going. The packages are here but i didnt want to haul them down here with the rest of my luggage and President is coming on wedensday anyways so i am just waiting. My apartment here though is quite nice and i even have a queen size bed. Haha i dont use it all since i cuddle up with the wall but its there to use if i want. My companion though is Elder Hertz who i have known since the beginning of my mission in nikolaev and then in zap as well. He is awesome and i am glad to get to be with him. Well anyways that is about all that is going on around here for me. Its sweet to be here and i am grateful the Lord has blessed me and sent me here to the wonderful land of the Crimea. Hope all is well for you.
Love you guys.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Back in Ukraine
06/30/2009
Hey,
Well sorry about yesterday about not getting an email off. The website wasnt working so yea. Hopefully they sent letters home saying why but if not i hope that you werent to worried. But here i am. Bulgaria was way fun and it was a nice little break but i was definetly ready to come back. It was really cool because we got to see the Elders from the donestk mission so i saw Elder Whitehead and Elder Steele. It was cool. We had some fetching long layovers. We had one in Kiev for 6 hours the first day then 5 on the way home. We even flew to Hungry for a nice 6 hour lay over. But we just stayed in apartments that the Bulgarian mission has for the Ukranian missions to renew our visas. They were really nice. The crazy thing is that the APs are the ones that picked us up from the airport and drove us around everywhere. But Bulgaria was really nice especially compared to Ukraine. It was very European like but i love ukraine so much better. Seriously. Bulgarian is a lot like russian but it was pretty hard to understand. Sometimes i understood alot of what was being said and others not. But we just walked around and saw places. We then got to walk around kiev on thursday for a few hours. Kiev was so sweet. But yea definatly good to be back in the good old ukraine. But yea Ara would lose his job if his work found out that he was baptized. So its just got a good idea for people to know. I am glad that Grandpa Hukill is ok and that is really funny about meeting that guy or whatever. I talked with the donestk elders about that Brayden Mitchell kid i think that you were telling me about or something like that. They said he was really cool. That is crazy about it being the last time in Veyo. What time will church be when i get back? Sounds like everything is going good back home though. We have hot water at least for now but this morning when i woke up our apartment was flooding so i had to run upstairs and wake up the neighbors. Definetly not a good sound. Transfer calls are this week and i am pretty sure i am leaving Zap. Oh man i remember the days of shoveling all of that rock around. So much. Haha fetching Brent i swear he would order to much on purpose so i would have to shovel it off the ground again. The only people though i have heard from is Sam and Skylar Braxten and Kolten and that is not very often. Every once in a while. So we get our new mission president in 2 days. Haha President and Sister Abraham will be back in St. George on the 4th of July. Happy 4th of July. Anyways everything else though is going well. Nothing exciting but that. Well love you all. Peace out.Elder Hukill
Hey,
Well sorry about yesterday about not getting an email off. The website wasnt working so yea. Hopefully they sent letters home saying why but if not i hope that you werent to worried. But here i am. Bulgaria was way fun and it was a nice little break but i was definetly ready to come back. It was really cool because we got to see the Elders from the donestk mission so i saw Elder Whitehead and Elder Steele. It was cool. We had some fetching long layovers. We had one in Kiev for 6 hours the first day then 5 on the way home. We even flew to Hungry for a nice 6 hour lay over. But we just stayed in apartments that the Bulgarian mission has for the Ukranian missions to renew our visas. They were really nice. The crazy thing is that the APs are the ones that picked us up from the airport and drove us around everywhere. But Bulgaria was really nice especially compared to Ukraine. It was very European like but i love ukraine so much better. Seriously. Bulgarian is a lot like russian but it was pretty hard to understand. Sometimes i understood alot of what was being said and others not. But we just walked around and saw places. We then got to walk around kiev on thursday for a few hours. Kiev was so sweet. But yea definatly good to be back in the good old ukraine. But yea Ara would lose his job if his work found out that he was baptized. So its just got a good idea for people to know. I am glad that Grandpa Hukill is ok and that is really funny about meeting that guy or whatever. I talked with the donestk elders about that Brayden Mitchell kid i think that you were telling me about or something like that. They said he was really cool. That is crazy about it being the last time in Veyo. What time will church be when i get back? Sounds like everything is going good back home though. We have hot water at least for now but this morning when i woke up our apartment was flooding so i had to run upstairs and wake up the neighbors. Definetly not a good sound. Transfer calls are this week and i am pretty sure i am leaving Zap. Oh man i remember the days of shoveling all of that rock around. So much. Haha fetching Brent i swear he would order to much on purpose so i would have to shovel it off the ground again. The only people though i have heard from is Sam and Skylar Braxten and Kolten and that is not very often. Every once in a while. So we get our new mission president in 2 days. Haha President and Sister Abraham will be back in St. George on the 4th of July. Happy 4th of July. Anyways everything else though is going well. Nothing exciting but that. Well love you all. Peace out.Elder Hukill
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