Welcome To My New Home....At Least For The Next Few Months!

View from our 10th floor apartment

We have a VERY nice kitchen

This is our living room

When missionaries have to come into Kyiv and stay the night somewhere they usually stay at our apartment they sleep on the floor in this room. We have some mattresses aka the things that you blow up to take to the pool with you to float on, that they use to sleep on the floor. They stay with us because our apartment is close to the mission office and also because it is by far the nicest apartment in the mission. When I say nice it is nice. We just paid rent on it the other day and it was 8000 griven. My last apartment was only 1300 griven. A little bit of a difference right, well 8000 griven is roughly about $1000 USD. CRAZY!
My apartment actually has one bedroom with a king sized bed, I sleep on the mattress that is in the couch. I pull it out each night and put it in the door way so I can see my companion, next transfer I get the bed!!!!

Our shower is huge and we actually have two bathrooms. One has a huge bath tub in it that I think I can probably go swimming in.

Don't worry I still use toilet paper!!!!

Christmas Caroling in Kyiv

Since being in Kyiv I have caroled twice. Once on Christmas Eve with all of the missionaries that were here for transfers and Christmas Day with the ward. Remember this is Ukrainian Christmas so January 6th is Christmas Eve and 7th is Christmas Day. I sang for a little while on Christmas and spent most of the time passing out Family Proclamations and Living Christ to people. It was a lot of fun.

Back In Kyiv!!!

So all you know that it was transfer week this week. Well I was transferred believe it or not... just kidding; I knew I was being transferred early because Elder Western was training. Well without further ado, I am now serving in Kyiv about a 10 minute bus ride from the temple. My area is called Svyatoshinsky and my companion's name is Elder Adam Bangerter. He is from St. George, Utah. I am really excited about my new area. The people here are awesome and it is so nice to be so close to everything, especially the temple.