From East to West

Misha is back at the orphanage. All the kids seemed happy to be back home. We were hoping to leave at noon after picking up the court decree, but the Judge was called out of town so we had to wait til 5:00p.m. so we missed the train. This means we will be driving by the car from one side of Ukraine to the other. Vladimir was hoping to do this in about 13-14 hours. We went to visit Misha, but he wasn't feeling well. He took us to see a local state run equestrian farm where he used to ride horses. The facility was really nice and the horses were amazing. They had several horses there that were national champions in dressage, jumping and long distance running. We saw the biggest horse we have ever seen. We left Misha so that he could rest, he didn't want to visit the nurse. We took the Branch President and his missionary companion out to lunch. The branch President is a missionary from Armenia, he has only been a member of the church for two years, and a missionary for about 6 months, and now he is responsible for the whole branch. They told us it is very hard to find time to tract because they are so busy with branch issues. They are in a large area without a car and it can take hours visiting between members, and they have a lot of elderly women and widows. They had just finished building a hand railing for one of the members.