Following our first year of studies at the College for Officer Training, my wife, Hannah, and I had the amazing privilege to carry out our summer assignment in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. When approached by the college staff about this opportunity, I remember being very interested but at the same time very anxious. When I first heard Dnepropetrovsk pronounced, I wondered if I’d ever be able to train my tongue to say it, let alone the many other words I would need to learn to connect with the people. But a few months later, armed with a lot of prayer and an English-Russian/Ukrainian dictionary, we arrived in Ukraine’s most easterly city.