Hey everyone! So the visa trip was cool, everything went fine for the
most part, the whole first half of the trip before we got to Donetsk, a
few people in the car were saying that we were lucky because nothing is
gonna happen on this visa trip and it's going to be boring and normal,
that was until we got to Donetsk, when our mission driver parked in a
bus drop off/pick up zone and the police came and well all and all he
got a ticket and they raged at us, but the Ukraine is cool I guess, it
looks a ton like Russia, almost no difference honestly. I'm sending a
photo of when we stopped for lunch. I'm also sending a photo of a prank
that some Elders in my zone played on me, remember how I told you that
they forgot the package when they came on splits down here in
Novorosysisk? Well wen I went up to Krasnodar to spend a night there with
the zone leaders for my visa trip, it was epic, there was a lot of
people there, like 8, that's almost 1/3 of our 30 elder mission haha,
anyways, they made a fake package from an older one that was addressed
to Elder Hill, and they put my address labels on it and everything, it
looked way legit, and then they set up a hidden camera before I opened
it, they know I like trolling and I've been trolling them too so it's
all good, anyways, so the package was filled with dirt, I literally
thought it was the package from you guys, the reaction was hilarious, it
was so funny, I love seeing the other elders, but I got my real package
of course though, and I love it, thanks! Speaking of that, I think I'll
just get some Russian shoes here, the style is so rad, looks like the
Grinch kind of haha, what do you think? Also could you send the movie 17
Miracles too? It's also allowed and it's pretty good too, if it's not
too much to ask. I have no idea about the next transfers to answer your
question but I can pretty much guarantee that I'm leaving to another
area and by the way things swing in our mission, it looks like I'll
probably go to either southern Rostov, Sochi, or Krasnodar, but we'll
see what happens, I hope it will be a great transfer!
Anyways, things here are good, we're still just moving
along with everything. Oh and by the way my name got changed to Elder
Travis here due to the whole skin head thing so that will be my new name
tags, funny right? Today after we write this we might go look at the
oil pumping facilities with Brad, he's the American member who lives
here that I've been telling you about, he's way awesome and he's like 53
and works for Chevron, we usually eat with him and his wife on Sundays,
but he asked us to come up if we wanted to because it's pday so we said
why not and so we are gonna go up hopefully, they pump over a million
barrels a day, so it will be cool to see I think, I'll need to get some
pictures. Other than that not too much news, almost my whole week was
spent traveling, about 27 hours in total, no joke. Well I love you guys
so much, I don't have much time to write this week though, the computer
here crashed 3 times, so I had to fool around with stuff for like 20
minutes just trying to get things working, so I'll have to keep in
shorter in my emails to you guys personally. Well I'll let you know if I
find out about my transfer, but it will be in about 5 weeks when I do
so I'll just have to wait until then, for mothers day in the second
Sunday in May right? If so, Brad will be back in town and he offered to
let us use his Ipad and his Imac for skype so we can see each other
while we talk, way cool, I guess you guys could just use Dad's Ipad for
that, but we'll see what happens! I love you all and may the force be
with you!
-Elder Skene (Or perhaps I should say Elder Travis)
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