Tuesday was a little odd. We are trying to finish the UEC's annual report to mail to our supporters. Since I am in the US and the staff is in Kyiv, it means we have to anticipate when we will all be at a computer. So Sunday night I stayed up till about 3.30AM writing Kyiv. Then at other odd times we have been trading files with Sergiy and Lera. It's sort of been fun trying to get this done without me being there. So far, I think we are succeeding. Then yesterday I realized that one part of the report had been completely forgotten about so I came home last night and started to work on it. I was planning to do it while watching David Letterman and it would have arrived in time for Sergiy to work on it when he got to work on Wednesday morning. As I scanned the channels, Letterman was going off. It's an hour earlier in the central time zone. Then Kenneth and Victoria called. I thought that was a little odd since they were about to have a baby and I wasn't sure how they got the Prill's phone number. They brought good news--Victoria had delivered their second daughter at home only a few hours earlier. Everything is fine and CONGRATULATIONS TO THE KIRBY FAMILY!!

It was so great to talk to them. Hopefully that will happen again before we leave. Needless to say, I never got that report written and should be doing that now instead of writing this blog. Sergiy is going to kill me.

We did have some fun yesterday. I went to the bank with our Ukrainian wedding license to provide the documentation they wanted. I have this guy over a barrel so he is being very nice since they have messed up so many times. I also wrote a zayavleniye. I don't even know what to call it in English. A statement or something trying to change Lena's last name to my last name on our accounts. Sort of fun to encounter American bureaucracy. And I can do it all right in the grocery store where the bank is. Amazing.

I also had encouraging conversations with Stever Sherman, a former missionary, and will hopefully see Jonathan Shaub today or tomorrow. I'm having lunch with Scott Owings and will enter the barbecue wars. We are going to a Texas barbecue place. Supposedly, it's the best in the world or something like that. We'll see. I guess it will taste much better if he is paying. They are thinking about coming to Kyiv in the early spring and we are going to try to hammer out some details. A young couple is considering Kyiv as one of their possibilities for a 2-year ministry stint, so pray about that.

Lena is feeling much better. We went out last night in search of Babies R Us and never found it. Anyone know where one is in Nashville? I thought there was one in Cool Springs.