Service

We did service and moved a truck load of sand for a lady in our ward. Literally a truck load. We moved it about 60 feet to another place with a wheelbarrow. The lady called Elder Lewis princess just because he was saying it was hot. LOL!!!!

WE HAVE A PROPLEM.........

........... a cockroach problem!! I guess the apartment before we moved in wasn’t the cleanest thing in the world. So every morning we wake up and Elder Lewis goes into the Kitchen and I hear a loud, " OH MAN!!" We put out poison so every morning he runs in there and finds them just laying there on the floor. We have been killing them off slowing but surely. Luckily they are not in our bedroom.

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi -Akkerman Fortress

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi is without question one of the world’s most ancient cities alongside Athens, Rome and Constantinople. 1998 marked its 2500 anniversary! The Goths and the Romans, the Scythians and the Genoese, the Hungarians and the Moldavians, the Turks and the Poles all lived here and each gave the city their own name. The city, situated at a trade-route crossroads, has changed its name twenty times: Tira, Alba-Yulia, Levkopolis, Asprokastron, Feger-Var, Monkastro and Akkerma etc. Nearly every name used the word “white”, referring to the city’s buildings built of local light chalk-stone.

Countless raiding enemies considered the White city a tempting conquest necessitating a powerful fortress for its ancient citizens. So in the 13th c. on a rocky bank at the Dnister estuary, upon the remnants of the ancient city of Tira, the construction of high walls and unassailable towers began. For 200 years the stronghold was under construction by the Moldavians, the Genoese and the Turks. The defensive walls were approximately 2500 meters long with a thickness of 1,5-5 meters. There were 35 towers (only 20 remain), the majority of which had their own names: Ovidius’ Tower, Pushkin’s Tower, the Commandant’s Tower and the Temnytsia (Dungeon) Tower.

From all sides but the northern where the Dnister waves wash the fortress wall, the castle is surrounded by a moat. Its depth once reached 22 meters! Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi or Akkerman fortress still stands as Ukraine’s most grandiose.

Don't worry mom that is not me, it is Elder Western!!!

Elder Lewis & Larimore

Odessa In The Spring

I am happy to be back in Odessa I am looking forward to this transfer.

A Taste of Home in Odessa

Not as good as home but it tasted GOOD!

Ukrainan Version of a Paper Shredder!!

I had some old emails that I wanted to get rid of so here is how I did it........

I Have Been Transferred........

Good-Bye Kyiv.........


Hello Odessa I am back in an area of town called Suvoroskey!! It is on the opposite side of town from my first area that I served in !!!

My New Companion and My New Home

I am serving with Elder Jordan Lewis. He is way cool and it is going to be a fun transfer. We are the same age on the mission. He has been writing President Steinigal for weeks asking to serve with me and here I am. I am way way excited for this transfer. The branch here is fairly small. Maybe 30 people at church yesterday. Yesterday when I gave a talk I didn’t even have a microphone. We do have a church building and we live about a minute walk from it.
We just moved into a new apartment. I think that they moved in about 2 days before I got here. It is pretty nice and the shower is way cool. We call it the hydrobox, lol. We actually have three beds, it is nice but the Landlord still needs to buy us a refrigerator. So we are waiting for that, it is a lot harder to buy food when you don’t have a fridge!! I think that we will be getting it this week. The Landlord is coming over today to give us a kitchen table, I guess that he fell on the last one and broke it. I am looking forward to this transfer.