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Like I mentioned before, we just love our contacts, Olga and Maxim! I couldn’t have asked for a better family to stay with this month. They are young and fun to be around. We laugh a lot with them and can see their true desire to love the Lord. They are very honest and humble people. Every night, we all eat dinner together with their family and just talk about life and testimonies of the year and what God has done in the past 8 or 9 months.

Most nights, Maxim shares a verse and what the Lord is putting on his heart. One night, he shared a verse out of James 2 which talks about living out our faith and not just using words to show the love of Christ, but actually using our actions to love people and share Jesus with them. He shared that our lives need to be a testimony and through just loving and serving people, we would show them who Jesus is. He let us know that the next day, we would be plastering the disinfection ward of the hospital and here in Ukraine people are more open to you when you show them you love them.

We were so excited to go and plaster the next day even though most of had never plastered before.In the morning, we were picked up in an old Soviet Union ambulance to be taken to the hospital. We think this may be used as a taxi because they just stop and pick up people all along the way.
 
 
 
 
We were so blessed. We went in and worked with a really cool group of ladies who taught us everything. We plastered for a few hours and just laughed and talked to them as much as we could and then they said it was break time, so we just hung out.
 
 
 
 
 
 
After a while, we walked out into the lobby area and they sat us down in their chairs, gave us their tea, their jackets and the cake they had for themselves and went into the other room. We felt bad that they had just given up their snacks for us, but also didn’t want to offend and not take what they offered to us. We were so blessed that day.
 
 
 

They said they wanted us to come back again, so we went for a second time hoping to finish up the plastering we had started but they needed help filling in a ditch with dirt, so we shoveled dirt instead. We leveled out the ditch outside to make it easier for rain water to drain out. So far, this has been a great month! It’s been a blessing just to be able to serve where ever we are needed and to love in that way. It feels good to not use so many words since we talked so much in Africa. We were ready to take a break from words and just live it out.