On the train

Train. It's time to turn the linens back to car attendant. I'll be the last to do it.

Tea time on the train

Early tea in the platscart car of train to Kiev. You can buy a cup of tea for 5 Hryvna (60 cents US) or you can get hot water for free and make your own tea or coffee - if you are an experienced traveller and you have brought them aboard. At Soviet times a cup of tea on the train costed only 0.02 rouble - a trifle.

Early morning in the train

Platscart car of Mariupol-Kiev train, early morning. We are heading back home to Kiev, Ukraine.

UFO in The Bible and Book of Mormon?

Yesterday we took a bus to the railway station in Donetsk, Ukraine. Two Mormon missionaries got into the bus. I like talking to these young American guys about life. This one is an ascendand from Joseph Smith's guard, who died in 1850 and left his diary. Pretty cool! I wish my grands would leave their diaries!

In Donetsk they converted into Mormons only 1000 persons - not much. He gave me A Book of Mormon in Russian. I already browsed through it a bit and the most interesting part is how the Mesenger appeared to Joseph Smith. It is very similar to modern accounts of UFO encounters - descending on a ray of light from a spaceship.

It reminds me what Boris Zolotov said about likeness between Christ's ressurection and UFO taking person up into a spaseship.

Update: I forgot the book in the train.