Lesia

Saturday morning Gilles and I went to our lessons. We spent the morning with our teacher and then headed up to Flo's apartment. After eating one of Flo's famous omelettes we packed up a few things and went to visit Lesia, the wheelchair bound lady with MS who lives in a nearby area. We had been told of her by Oleg, Flo's nephew's son a little while back and have visited her on several occasions. This lady is definitely a saved person as we have been able to speak with her and also listen to her. On one of our previous visits she had told us of a neighbouring family whose children were not well looked after. Funds had been left with her to get some groceries to feed these kids who were going to school on an empty stomach of many occasions. We also brought clothes along for these young children and she arranged for them to be there when we came. This morning we arrived and Lesia had her sister with her as well as her cousin. We had brought along some clothing for her family and shoes for her husband and daughter.
It is not always easy to follow how the conversation goes from one topic to another because of the language. Flo tries to interpret but some conversations are difficult to interrupt. Flo & Lesia were talking about songs and Flo started singing one of the hymns we sing at meeting. Then they started to talk to the sister and cousin about the gospel and Lesia mentioned that you have to have Christ as your own. Lesia talked about getting some very needy people to come to the apartment so we could bring some clothes for them and asked Flo to bring some bibles so that we could speak with them about Christ, and could we also please bring some hymn books so that we can sing some songs! The sister and cousin also said they would come. So we have a house meeting lined up for Wednesday afternoon.
Gilles and I so wish we could speak more "intelligently" in Ukrainian so that we could talk to people more easily. We find ourselves understanding a lot more of the conversations but speaking requires a lot of time to think of the right words and the conversation just moves on and we are left behind. We are very diligently and persistently working on the language.