Christmas Puddles

Another week has disappeared here in the land of the Ukrainians. I can't remember if anything even happened since the last time I wrote, but I'm sure something must have since we work all day everyday. We actually set a baptismal date with the mother of the family of 6 we've been teaching but they still didn't come to Church. Somebody's always "sick." Three of them are praying about the Book of Mormon. It's a unique challenge to have taught people mostly everything and be waiting for them to receive an answer. It's hard to know what to teach or share with them to keep things going.

I'm not sure about elsewhere, but here, apparently Christmas was on Saturday. Well it was for us anyway. The Orthodox Church celebrates it on January 7th. I was able to talk with my family on Skype which was really neat. It was slightly less that perfect due to the Georgian guy yelling at his computer the whole time in the internet cafe we went to. On Christmas Day it went up to 5 degrees here. There were a lot of puddles.

I've been really enjoying personal study. I try to read at least one talk from General Conference everyday. I just fell in love with Elder Richard G. Scott's talk, "The Transforming Power of Faith and Character." It's pretty cool to look through and see how many times it mentions "consistent" or "countless". It really comes down to just making good choices each time we're faced with a decision.

Things are going well here. I'm happy to be serving the Lord here. One of my favorite scriptures is Moroni 8:16. Check it.

Thanks for all the love and support.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

Love,
Elder Mahoney

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