Saturday, December 1, 2012

Dan Report

November 05, 2012,

Monday) Monday we woke up to a quiet morning! Yesterday we took Malcolm and Howard to
Lviv, both spoke at the morning meeting and had very good messages! Do pray that God will
Bless all that they have done while here! Then we picked up Louis and make it on time for our
meeting, a good number out and listened very well! After the meeting one Lady (Oksana)
stayed behind and talked with Louis and me about her daughter who flipped out and now in a
psych ward, much prayer is needed!

Today had my first Ukrainian class, though overdue, better late than never! This class was a
two hour lesson and afterward I felt as if I made a trip to Lviv and back, it took a lot out of me
but think I need as much as I can handle to learn this difficult language!

Tuesday) Left in the morning to visit an orphanage for mentally ill girls, ages about 8-35, in a
town called Kolamaya. We talked with a small group of kids that have some kind of
comprehension, then had small talk with the director and a few staff. We brought clothes and
cleaning supplies to give to this orphanage.

Before leaving the town we stopped at the main school to talk to the principal to ask
permission to speak to the kids. It was a very nice school and the office was very nice and big,
the principal looked very serious. I was having flash backs to when I was in school and had to
see the principal. I thought he might throw us out of his office but he seemed to have warmed
up to Louie and was willing to have us speak, so we made an appointment with the Christian
Ethics teacher for next week. This school is the largest in this town 1200 students possibly the
largest we have spoken in, Louie did very well in talking to the principal!!

Wednesday) had my second two hour Ukrainian lesson, while I was there Louis and Vladimir
had a talk at the apartment with Luba, one of the ladies from our meeting and who is in
fellowship at the Lviv assembly. She had some questions about the Bible that they discussed
and family and relational problems that ended up being the main topic.

After this we went out for dinner with Ruslan and his wife Anna, (they were part of that church
group that came up with us to the Lviv conference), at the restaurant Ruslan had many
questions about Christian living and about eternal security. We later went to his house for some
coffee and tea. Vladimir was trying to get his computer to run faster while more questions
came up about eternal security. After a few hours there and our talk at the restaurant it looked
like a few light bulbs turned on as we went through parts of the Scriptures. Ruslan professes to
be saved but thinks the church group he was with has confused him and his wife. It was a very
profitable time we had together!

Thursday) Boxes came in the morning from Portage La Prairie CA. A big thank you to them!
We sorted out the boxes and prepare some to take with us to a town we will be visiting tomorrow. Then Louis went out to make a phone call at a place where international calls are
not too expensive. While he was in the booth the worker, who didn't know he was there closed
the place and left for lunch. Louis tried to leave but he was locked in and had to wait a half hour
or more for the worker to come back, it was good he made it back home.

We then had our new Thursday meeting. There were 7 of us all together and had a very good
talk about Geneses 5, 6. One man, who has lived in England, brought a pamphlet with him from
England that talked about the gospel and was from a gospel hall in the area. After the meeting
Taras, another young man, stayed behind with some questions about salvation, he did this
before and do believe he is still searching!

We will be picking up Eric on Sunday, Please continue to pray for these meeting and for our
visitations!

In Christ our Lord

Louis, Dan

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