Apr 25
Last week Katie and I were quite surprised to receive three care packages in the mail from people back in the states. Getting packages is a not a very common event, so getting three in a week was like Christmas in April.
David called me last night and told me he was getting together with a chess player today our friend Valeriy had met recently. Now, to be clear, I’m not much of a chess player whatsoever. (In fact, I’m pretty sure the last time I played chess was when I was eighteen and the fifth grader who had just honestly beat me told me I didn’t have to go easy on him.) However, meeting someone new sounded like fun so I agreed to join him.
Yesterday we were blessed to witness another baptism in Kharkov. Victoria, a longtime friend of the team here, chose to become a child of God and begin her new life walking in the light.
Yesterday was Easter here. Since kids in Ukraine don’t do the whole Easter Bunny thing, we decided to make that a part of our celebration together. The team invited many of the people we know who have children to come and make their own baskets and then join us in the park for a hunt.
One of the first pieces of advice I got when I arrived to Ukraine almost ten years ago was to expect everything to take twice as long as you think it should. These words of wisdom have come back to me time and time again over the years. Yesterday was a perfect example of what I mean.
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