An empty street covered with ice and snow in Kazakhstan, a country in the Former Soviet Union where many people are receiving discipleship training. An ethnic Russian living in the former Soviet Union republic of Kazakhstan, Lena finally had come to the end of her rope. A horrible car accident left her paralyzed. Her husband didn’t want an invalid for a wife, so he left her and their child. The prospect of death was tempting. But soon she came to discover “how to really live.”