Final Report 12. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday April 23rd, 24th, 25th 20012
Well I start my last part- week before going home on Thursday.
We
have a visit to a school that I had not been to before, but Dan had. We
missed our turn to the village and arrive half an hour late. This
doesn’t seem to worry people here in Ukraine. After a little visit with
the two assistant directors, a man and lady, we spoke to about thirty 10
to 12 year olds, who gave good attention. We gave out candies and
balloons as they had n/t’s from a previous visit. We then spoke to and
older class of teen- agers who gave good attention except for 3 boys who
got the giggles over something, but managed to cool them down!!
We
got back in good time and picked up Lubchek, a brother from Lviv, form
the bus station who wanted to spend a few day with us in Ivano.
Tuesday.
Dan
had dentist’s appointment at 9am so I stayed and ironed my shirts,
where’s my wife? I cleaned up the apartment ready for the meeting
tonight.
Dan
came home and we took the van to get a new security alarm put on. It
was to take 3 hours so we left the van and walked up town. Can you
imagine a state of the art security alarm, installed for $131? They also
fixed two door locks.
I
needed to get money exchanged and we must have gone to 4 or 5 banks
before I could get anyone to exchange the new plastic $100 Canadian
bill. They said their banks were not set up to accept them yet??? By the
time we had walked the town, I was worn out, (Dan can walk all day) but
we met a young man who dan is hoping will interpret later on. We sat in
the sun in the centre of town and had a great talk as he works for the
city tourism people and gave us a good history of Ivano Frankivsk.
We
got the van back and headed home for the meeting at 6pm. About 20 came
out for a ‘goodbye to Malcolm” party after the meeting. They can really
make you feel bad for leaving.
Wednesday
I
got my things ready to leave in the afternoon and then we went to buy a
blood sugar machine for a lady with diabetes who comes to the meeting.
We then delivered it to her, she was very grateful for it as she has a
bad case of diabetes.
After lunch we headed for Lviv as I wanted to buy some things from the Vernasaj? Bazaar.
We
arrived in the middle of a violent thunder storm that went on for much
of the day. People were soaked to the skin as it had been nice and sunny
until the rain hit. I managed to get what I needed as we dodged under
the plastic awnings, loaded with water.
We went to the prayer meeting at 7pm but several of the people are away because of sickness.
I
was then deposited at Flo’s “empty” apartment to sleep and get my
flight home on Thursday afternoon. Thank you for praying for us. I trust
God has been able to use us to His glory. We trust that eternity will
reveal it.
Please continue to pray for Dan who goes home on May 8th and for Eric Fowler and Howard Pratt who arrive on May the 9th.
You’re Brother in Christ.
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