It’s been a great week here in L’viv! Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, the rement of our team in L’viv (Josh was in the crimea, and Nathan is in the States) went out to the Beals house in a village outside of L’viv. It was a great few days of fellowship and productivity! After a day of worship on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were started with Jessie and myself working out in his garden. We cleared his fruit tree/berry bush area then planted grass seed to make a nice lawn type area for the Beal girls and the neighborhood children to play after it matures. God only knows how that patch of earth will be used for Him in years to come 
Inside, Kelsie and Theresa worked on the revision to Lesson 1 of our Bible Course. Denise worked with the Beal girls on their schoolwork (no swine flu break from school here! Though the village children didn’t have school because the bus was broke down…), worked on grading Bible lessons we had received in the mail, as well as answer some of the questions we have receive through the course (We’ve had questions ranging from, “who are the Sons of God mentioned in Genesis,” to “how do we know Jesus actually existed?” to everything in between). BTW, Rebekah has just started walking on her own, it’s so awesome to watch! All of us had a great time to fellowship together and be refreshed. It was a productive few days! (For pictures, check out Denise’s blog) Tuesday night we only had English Club as we couldn’t find an interpreter for Jessie (Josh being out of town, as well as others we know).
Wednesday I had my Speech Therapy session and for the first time Dara and I talked for probably 10 minutes straight (she speaks no English), with most of our ideas being exchanged with only small amounts of non-understanding. I only used my dictionary 3 times. Needless to say, this was a real encouragement to me in my language studies!
Thursday was my ‘off’ day this week. I went to the store and stocked up on groceries for the week, as well as doing some produce searches at the market. It can be interesting at times Denise and I went over to the Steele’s in the evening for dinner and a game of Catan. Denise had never played the Cities & Knights version so Kelsie and I taught her how to play. In the end I pulled out a win! I was really excited :-P
Today (Friday), I had another Lesson with my Speech Therapist (Dara). I brought a “Good and Evil” with me to give to her (I had talked – in my limited vocabulary – about being a missionary the previous session). She was very pleased with it and thanked me a lot. We talked (again in our limited way) of why I was here. I told here that we encourage people to read their Bibles, and we offer Bible lessons through the mail, to help with their studies… I’m not sure of her spiritual condition, but with how eagerly she received the G&E, I think she is open to the Truth.
I had my first language lesson in a week this afternoon. Veronica (my language teacher) was down with a bad back last week and was in the Crimea this week, so this was the first time we have been able to meet. I brought pictures (Ukrainians love these) to talk to her in Ukrainian about (my vocabulary is strongest in the introductional category of Ukrainian, i.e. my name is, I am a, I live, etc.). It was encouraging to be able to communicate pretty well in Ukrainian
All in all, things are going well over here. Apparently, something I am minorly allergic to has started blooming (I have sneezed a few times and my eye is itching), but it is NOTHING compared to what I would be suffering through in Texas right now (Don’t mean to be bragging, all you Texas folks, … but I guess I am 
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I was informed this evening of the passing of one of the deacons of my church in FW. He has been having health problems for a long while now, and after spending time in the hospital, God saw fit to call His son home. We can rejoice for him know that he has been freed from the shackles of his earthly body, and is now before our Heavenly Father able to commune with Him face to face! Glory! Please join me in praying for the family left here, esp. Miss Jan, his wife. They would have been married 57 years (what a great example) in July, so it will be a difficult time of transition for her.
May God be glorified through all of our lives! God bless