Post # 11

Ukraine visit #11

Wednesday morning was spent buying groceries and shopping for some necessary things. 

So back in 1995 when Gilles and Tim Kancir as well as Flora were in Lviv, they visited Flo’s brother and sister in law in the neighbouring village of Lesnivichy.  We still visit there and in fact there is a picture of Flo’s sister in law Stefka on the September 22nd visit.    While they were visiting there in 1995, a young fellow from the same village came for a visit to see the visiting Canadians.  This young fellow, Michael, was 16 years old.  He got his picture taken with Tim and Tim gave him his home address (this was in a days before smart phones and Skype and facebook).  Fast forward to 2018.  Michael was at home looking through some papers and came across a small piece of paper with green ink.  On it was Tim’s address from 1995.  So he sat down, wrote Tim a letter and mailed it hoping something would come from it.  

Sure enough the letter made its way to Tim in Canada and with the help of Google Translate and Gilles the letter was translated.  Michael had included his email address so Tim was able to get back to him easily.  So before leaving for Lviv we got his telephone number and an invitation to call.

Ruslan called Michael and told him we were in town.     He still lives in the small village of Lesnivichy but couldn’t meet with us when we went there.  So Ruslan told him about the mid week meeting we have.  So Wednesday evening while we were sitting waiting for the others to show up, in walk Michael and his wife Ola. They were so happy to be with us and stayed afterwards and talked for a good while.  He remembered Gilles, telling him he had not changed!  So they plan on being out on Sunday, bringing their little boy to the Sunday School.