2-15-10 Adventure in Bulgaria

So I drove down on a freexiing cold, crappy Ukranian bus for 7 1/2 hours by myself on Monday morning, worst P-day ever. They we had to frantically run around the city getting last minute stuff ready before we flew out. But Monday night was cool because me, Elder Tillotson, and Elder Shipp just hung out around Donetsk because we flew out early the next morning. We had a lay-over in Kiev and met up with Elder Obering (from Cedar City), then we flew to Sophia, Bulgaria from there. We ate dinner with the office elders and AP's that night, then 2 more elders from our group, Elder Kuhre and Elder Bagley flew in that night. They are from the same mission as Greg Bayless, so I got to talk to them about him, which was cool. One Elder from our group got left out and has to come with the next group, which stinks, but it was still so much fun seeing each other again and hanging out all night. We ordered PIZZA HUT!!!!! to our apartment that first night. And the next day, after we got all our Visa stuff taken care of, we ate DUNKIN' DONUTS AND KFC for lunch, then SUBWAY for dinner. As you can guess, it was amazing after eating nothing but McDonald's for 1 year. We had a blast talking to each other about our missions and joking around, and Sophia is a pretty city. But we left the very next morning and I was exhausted from lack of sleep. But we're back in Alekseevka now and doing awesome. We are working with our investigator, Tatyana, and we're taking her family to the Senior couple for a lesson this week. We really want to start teaching her whole family, because her husband and son are great and need to be taught. Another investigator, Denise, said he would come to church on Sunday, but didn't show, which always stinks. We are also trying to visit all the members and do a lot of in-active work like we did in XTZ. This branch is awesome though and I'm so excited and happy to be here again. The people here are also in to the olympics, but all I've heard about is the luge (?) guy from Georgia who died. As for the elections here, of course they are a big deal but not nearly as big as we thought it would be. If I could say my opinion about the new President, I would. Our side of Ukraine really likes him, but that's because our side is pro-Russia, not Ukranian or European, if that makes sense.