Sofia via Vienna

Most of my week was spent in or travelling to and from Sofia, Bulgaria to renew my visa. I travelled to Kiev on Monday and flew through Vienna to Sofia on Thursday. I went with 5 other Ukrainian-speaking missionaries who came to the country with me. It was a pretty cool trip overall. The Church rents an apartment in Sofia just for the Ukrainian missionaries who travel to renew their visas. While we're in Bulgaria we don't really have anything to do, so we just walk around and look at the city. There are also many American restaurants which we don't have here, so we eat a lot too. While I was there we went to Dunkin' Donuts, KFC, Burger King, a Chinese restaurant, and some other Bulgarian one. It was pretty cool. We don't have any of those restaurants in Ukraine.

Sofia is a really nice city. Really make Ukraine look like a 3rd world country. It's very clean there and almost everybody I talked to knew either English or Russian. Our visas are a little weird and say that we can only stay in the country for 90 days and apparently we were lucky to get back into the country because all the other missionaries in the MTC are not getting visas to Ukraine right now and they don't know when they'll be able to. Our Mission President isn't even leaving the country in case they don't let him back in. I guess they just changed some laws in September. I just heard that the new missionaries should come on December 5th. It'll be interesting to see what happens. I flew back in on Thursday and slept in Kiev, then took a train back to Khmelnitskiy on Friday. It is nice to be back "home." We're just settling back in and looking forward to another good week. I don't know too much more what to say.

I know that God lives. I feel His love in my life everyday and it's awesome to be a part of this work. Somehow it seems like I have less than half my mission left. I wanna make the best of it. Please pray that we can find some new people to teach. We need miracles.

Love,

Elder J. Mahoney

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