Since thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving with our classmates and their families, including a missionary family from Moscow.

We visited the Shevchenko Church where Rick and Carol Pinchuk have been working since 1990. They have a nice family atmosphere. There, we met some young Christian women from our section of the city whom Alicia has been visiting with.

I’m going to brag on Alicia: We’re both in the same class, learning the same materials—so she’s not supposed to be more advanced than I am. Yesterday, we were down on Andressky and she was just chatting away with some of the ladies in the booths. I was proud of her skills.

December is a big month for the White House (Ukraine)- Our Anniversary (5^th), then Christmas (25^th), Alicia’s Birthday (28^th), New Year’s and our “second” Anniversary (31^st—meaning the anniversary of our WV wedding).

We started the Слова а Воге (Word of God) section of our studies. After three months of studying grammar, finally, we have gotten to the point of our language studies that distinguishes this program from studying at a university.

Well, as you can see, I have discovered how to type “по-русски” (in Russian)— I had to type a model of the Russian keyboard and taped it to the top there so I can remember the home-rows. We are not assuming that our beloveds who check this block will understand it all, so we’ll put in some translation. Like our next prayer we are learning for instance:

Господь!

Влагодаримь Тебя за то что Ты пришёл на землю чтобы спасти и исцелить нас.

Влагодаримь Тебя за Твою заботу, за Твою мудрость, за то что Ты так прекрасно сотврил Твой мир.

Влагодаримь Тебя за то что Ты доверил нам эму землю за то что Ты вознаграждаешь наш труд.

Мы славим Тебя Господь. Амин.

God-

Thank you because you came to earth to save and to heal us

Thank you for your work, for your wisdom, that you created so beautifully in your world

Thank you because you entrusted us to this world so that you may reward our work.

We praise you, God, Amen.