City, Classes, and Sunrise

September 15-19th Pictures :)

Lecture Phase Week 1! :)

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On Sunday, September 9th, I arrived in Kyiv at 1 in the morning! YWAM Kyiv welcomed me with open arms...and McDonalds. (Quite delicious at such an early hour I must admit.) Monday was our first day of class. We found out that we will be doing LOTS of ministry even in the lecture phase. I am very excited about this. 

Early EARLY..really early on Tuesday morning, I got sick. I was in bed all day. Luckily the Lord healed me (thank you for all of your prayers!) and I was able to see some people Tuesday night. Unfortunately the "American plague" got all of the other Americans on the base. Literally every single American fell ill to a similar sickness! Very strange. But we are all mostly better now which is great. 

This week our lectures were all about the character of God. We all had a great time learning this week. My favorite day was Thursday's teaching which was all about the names of God. The class went through 16 different names of God and what they mean. It was great to see just some of the ways that we can describe God! Our teacher, Pastor Paul, gave us an assignment to make a clay cup. As we made  our cup we had to add things to the cup that mean something to us with what God has done in our lives or things that we want God to heal in our life. The whole class loved the assignment and enjoyed making the cups!

I am very blessed so have such an awesome team. We all have bonded and are having a fantastic time. I am looking forward to more bonding time in the future! :) The team as a whole is a little competitive when playing various card games like Nertz and Uno. I'm sure there will be stories to come about this. I love that everyone likes these games here!

Today we went on a tour of the city. We saw lots of beautiful buildings and Independence Square. It was great being in the city on such a beautiful day. 

If you all can pray for a few things that would be great:

One of my teammates who has a cold that has gone to her chest. Please pray that she is healed quickly and doesn't get Pneumonia. 

Pray for the whole team's health too!

Thank you guys for reading, I am having a great time so far! :)

Victoria

Leaving for Kyiv TOMORROW!

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Many things have happened since I last wrote! Tomorrow is the big day, and all of my things are packed! Also, big issue...Lufthansa, the airline that I am flying with, is on strike. Their employees decided to strike because of working conditions and also demand higher pay. Unfortunately for me this meant that I had to change my flight. Luckily, I still have a flight tomorrow but because of this I will be getting to Kyiv around 1:30 AM. At least I will still get there soon after my original flight! PLEASE be praying that the strike will end so that there are no more changes to my flight schedule. 

My room is looking much cleaner now that everything is packed. Too bad it can't always be this clean! (Those of you who know me will probably laugh when you read this considering I am very "O.C.D.") Next time I update this blog, I will be in Kyiv! Feel free to contact me via Facebook or email if you want to say hi. :)

Keep me in your prayers, Victoria