BIG FROG

Here is a big frog which I am sure the kids have fun climbing on. I thought of Collin when I saw it!!

One More Transfer With Elder Bangerter!!!!!

I am sure all of you are wondering fun helping him with that. He is a good kid and we get along great and we both trust each other a lot. Yesterday I had the opportunity of giving my first blessing. That was a neat experience. Elder Bangerter has this bad rash around his mouth and he wanted a blessing for it. Let me tell you the priesthood is from God and we can do all things through Him as long as we have faith. Well this will be his forth transfer in the area. He was excited and so was I because we have a lot of good things happening to us right now. The Lord is truly blessing us, it is amazing.

Happy Valentine's Day (just a little late)

Pedestrian bridge offers steel love for Valentine’s

Feb 11 2011, Kiev Post

Only some 10 meters long, this tiny foot bridge links not just two parks in the Kyiv center but also thousands of hearts who once clamped a love padlock across its railing.

One of the most romantic cult places, the Love Bridge will be invaded by an army of lovers again on St. Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14.

The love lock craze is not exclusive to Ukraine: Such padlocks can also be found on fences and bridges in Moscow, Verona, Brussels and Mount Huang, China, among many other cities. With their names etched in rough metal, couples clamp the steel symbols of their devotion and throw away the keys into the abyss – or whatever there is under the bridge.

Site of the Babi Yar Massacre

The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children began on the outskirts of Kiev in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

The German army took Kiev on September 19, and special SS squads prepared to carry out Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's orders to exterminate all Jews and Soviet officials found there. Beginning on September 29, more than 30,000 Jews were marched in small groups to the Babi Yar ravine to the north of the city, ordered to strip naked, and then machine-gunned into the ravine. The massacre ended on September 30, and the dead and wounded alike were covered over with dirt and rock.

Between 1941 and 1943, thousands more Jews, Soviet officials, and Russian prisoners of war were executed at the Babi Yar ravine in a similar manner. As the German armies retreated from the USSR, the Nazis attempted to hide evidence of the massacres by exhuming the bodies and burning them in large pyres. Numerous eyewitnesses and other evidence, however, attest to the atrocities at Babi Yar, which became a symbol of Jewish suffering in the Holocaust.

Curling

For P-day we went curling, it is the sport that is on played on ice at the Olympics where they slide a huge puck into a circle. It was so much fun we went with our district and had a
blast!

Sushi

We went over to our Bishop’s apartment with the rest of my district and we made sushi. It was a fun night and I made cheesecake for them. Bishop told me about 5 times that it was so good and that whenever we have ward counsel or any meetings that I should make dessert. It was fun and we have formed a strong relationship with our Bishop and the Sushi wasn’t half bad.