Service and Visitors

This is the bus that they rented for all the people to go to Ivano Frankivs'ka to work on a service project. We had had a lot of rain in July and it flooded the Celo's (villages) outside of Ivano. The houses are only made out of mud and straw with lattice on both sides and wall board on the inside for walls. They say the window structure is the more stable part of the house. It flooded the houses clear up to the ceiling and ruined most of their possessions. The water is contaminated and they have brought in food but have given it to the Renoke's (bazaars) and they have been charging for it and the people don't have the money.
This is a picture of just some of them. There were at least 40 or more, it was spearheaded by Pres. Molonose, the guy on the left front who is the counselor to the Mission Pres. Two of the people from Rivne were together and she got sick so they stayed at our house most of the day until she was feeling better and then they caught a Marshootka home.
These people had served mission's in Ukraine about 2-3 years ago. There were 2 more men who went on to Rivne and came here later. Dave Richards on left, Elizabeth Blumell, from Canada, I think I misspelled her name in my letter and David Gashler from Utah. The two on the right stayed with us one night because they served here in Lviv and spoke in English with the other ones that came from Rivne. They will all meet up in Budapest. They had come from visiting Rome. David Richards is a pilot and was able to get standby tickets for the group. Notice the old lady sitting in back of them. She had a scale sitting on the walk and so they weighted themselves. It didn't cost much but people will do anything. This was a lot better than begging for it which there is a lot of.