At the bus station getting ready to go to Donetsk.

In Donetsk chapel getting registered.

A little show before getting started

Sister Burr with translator anouncing the project and how it is orginized. What a beautiful smile.

Puting the kits together.

Finished producd. Program was well orginized and went fast and smoothly. We put together two hundred kits and made two hundred Christmas cards all in about an hour and a half. What a night.

And of course a nice meal afterwards.

A place to take some memorable pictures.

Mission President and wife and Seveta standing to the right.

Finished product to be distributed to children.

Meal after project finished.

A nice dance after project is finished.

And of cource just like home some girls hide out behind the chairs afraid to dance and the guys are afraid to ask. We find the world is the same everywhere you go.

I will go through what one of our projects are starting from here. The first three ladies on the left are staff members of a womens mental health center. Next is the District President then Elder and Sister Burr and then Sister McKulina who is the Area Seventy's wife. She is in charge of Public Relations for the Church and does a very good job of it. The one on the far right end is Alyona who is one of our interpeters.

This is the women's loung and TV area before.

This is the lounge after and you will see the TV at the end of this post.

This is the dinning room before.

Dinning room after.

Coat cabinet before.

Coat cabinet after.

This is their book cabinet before and the women broke the glass out of it which created a hazard for them so they requested a cabinet without glass.

New book cabinet without glass.

Old cabinet in kitchen.

New cabinets and two new tables one is at bottom left.

More old cabinets in the kitchen.

New cabinets with usable counter space.

This is the place a new water heater will go as the mentally handicaped women were showering in cold water.

What a blessing the church members were to these women. This is their new water heater.

Receptionest desks before.

Reseptionest desk after.

Night stands before.

Night stands after.

Fridge and cabinets before.

Fridge and cabinets after.

New benches in waiting room,

Flat screen TV which replaces the one seen in

earlier picturs.

A little of what we saw at the theater.

Back to our hotel at night. This is a picture of the square at night. It is beautiful.

A little ways away from the christian monistary is an old Roman building that was knocked down by an earthquake and then rebuilt.

This is a closer picture of the old christian monistary.

This is some sweet bread they were selling outside the monistary. Notice the pattern on the bread.

You can see over my right shoulder a christian monistary where they still do blood sacrifices. Our driver was baptize there as a child.

Thirty feet below the surface in the room where the christian lived for thirteen years.

Inside the monistary

A guard tower as we look across the Turkey boarder toward Mt. Ararat.

This is an old monistary where a christian spent 13 years of his life in a 15 foot room 30 feet below the surface of the ground for preaching christianity. This was built in about 300 AD. People threw food down into the pit to keep him alive. The king got sick and the people told him he wouldn't get better unless he let the christian out. The king let him out and he got well and made christianity the national religion of Armenia. Mt. Ararat is in the back ground.

We traviled a hour to get out to these missionaries home to have Family Home Evening. We all had bells to chime out a hymn. I didn't do so well.

This Building that looks like apartment is the typical homes they own not rent in Armenia and is typical for Europe East.

This is a typical Orthadox church in Armenia.

As you can see the cloths hanging out by the ground meaning that people are accually living in that building. This building is in the middle of some nicer buildings in the area.

And again.

More performers.