4-26-10 Teaching the Chinese in Ukraine

Anyways, this was a really good week, a lot of stuff happened. Sergay's baptism was great, we had a good member turn out and there was a great Spirit there. He's a stud and will be a great priesthood leader. The Branch was quiter than I had ever heard them while we were giving him the Holy Ghost, it was really cool. Lilly, our Chinese investigator, also came to the baptism and she even brought her Vietnamese friend, Solnechka, that we had met with once before. It was funny though because every time we asked Lilly a question, such as "When would you like to get baptized?" She had a habit of turning to her friend and saying. I don't know, when do you want to get baptized?" Ha, it was funny. They even got into a funny conversation about how many people they would want at their baptisms. But Lilly has to talk to her parents about baptism first, which is a huge obstacle because she would never want to go against her parents will. But in fact, her parents and relatives are also interested in Jesus Christ and they like the teachings they have heard about. They are a very wealthy, influential family in China, so if everything goes perfectly, they could be one of the main pioneers that could bring the church into China. She didn't make it to church though, which isn't good, but we'll try to talk to her later today. Yes, Lilly is awesome and needs to get baptized then go back to China, teach her family, baptize them, and then bring the Church to China. They could, her Dad is friends with the emperor. He is the mayor of a big city outside of Beijing, and the president of a university.
We also met with this new in-active girl who hasn't met with the missionaries or been to church in over 5 years. That was really cool, and we're planning on having another in-active night with those other 5 in-actives tonight at the Gorsky's. We're going to get all 6 of these in-actives back to church, actually we are not, the two missionaries that are white-washing in behind us. Me and Elder Baly are both leaving. How transfers work is we get a call on Friday of week 5 (last Friday) that we're leaving, and then the next Friday is transfer day when we move to our new area. I'm still staying in Harkov somehow. I'm going to break the record of the missionary to live in Harkov the longest, I'll be here for over a year. It's crazy. But its great.