February 15- Sunday
I woke Keith up early to write his talk. It was on the “Testimony, a process” talk from conference. The talk itself was a process. He got the talk off the internet but we didn’t have a printer for him to print off his talk so he had to write it down. Then he had to have a copy for the person who was translating for him so he had to hand copy it again. Luckily, the quotes and scriptures he didn’t have to write over as the Elder had a Ukrainian copy of the Liahona and their Ukrainian scriptures.
I started packing suitcases to get ready to move to the motel. Neither one of us were quite ready so we didn’t go see the girls before church. It snowed over the night and there is a bitterly cold wind blowing. It has snowed several times since we have been here. But it is different than I am used to. It is very dry and more hail like. And so far hasn’t accumulated any, just skiffs.
By the time we got to the church our cheeks were bright pink. Elijah must have some wind burn or chappy cheeks because his are constantly pink now. We have been asked a couple times if we paint his cheeks. 
Church was nice. Kind of an island in our run-around week where we are among friends and where we can feel tshe spirit. Keith did a nice job on his talk.
Elder Thatcher and his wife had gone to another town to give support to another branch so all of church was run by the Elders. I’m still amazed at the experiences that these Elders are getting. They are going to be the ones that are ready to be bishop at a young age.
We talked about when we were bringing the girls next week. Since there are no other children that come to church, we offered to teach them a lesson but needed to have access to the gospel art kit. But they had a contingency plan for when they have primary children, so the Elders are going to teach a lesson for them.
After church, we walked up to see if we could remember where the courthouse was because we are supposed to meet Kostya there tomorrow. We remembered. We also got to see some of Khmelinestky that we didn’t see before and got lots of pictures.
We could have made it to the orphanage on time but we needed to stop at the apartment to get something to eat. We had bread and cheese and rushed out the door.
The front door was locked at the orphanage so we walked around the building to find one that was open. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to when they lock the door at the orphanage.
It was computer day. So Keith worked on getting it set up. A2 hung out in the other room peeking in on us every so often. I couldn’t tell if she was still upset at us about Saturday or if she thought we were still upset at her. With a little coaxing it wasn’t too long before she came out and joined us. That is one thing about A2 she doesn’t hold a grudge long.
K and A1 brought out the pictures of their stay in California. They were fun to look at. They took them to the dentist (complete with full mouth x-ray) and the doctor while they were there. It will be interesting to see how much stuff that they have for us to take home.
K didn’t get a turn on the computer because she kept pushing buttons on the computer when she wasn’t supposed to so she lost her turn. We have been trying to work on that, but we aren’t getting anywhere.
All in all we had a nice visit. Oh, their group got a pair of parakeets. I don’t know where they came from but everyone was excited to have them. NOW there is nothing that they don’t have.
We tried to pack a little bit more but Elijah was ornery (with no nap) so we just went to bed.