Hello!!! 6-24-13
How is everyone doing? I love your emails they
are very funny and make me laugh. So last week was my first official week in
Romania. And let me tell you it is very interesting. Ha-ha I have to start
getting use to Romania because it’s a very different mission. I mean of course
we are sharing the Gospel with people but the success rate is very low, as you
already know.
One of the main things we do on a daily basis
is contacting. For at least a few hours a day we just go around and talk to
people about the church. I would say most people just laugh or think we are a
joke but every once in a while we have a pretty good conversation. Its very fun
and getting to know different people is always fun. Actually I believe it was
last Wednesday we went contacting and it was awesome. I don’t really know what
to expect but my trainer Elder Rasmussen told me it was one of the best
contacting he has ever done in his mission. We got about eight people in a row
that showed some interest and actually talked to us. It seems like everyone
here has their own set of beliefs. Sometimes it’s difficult to share a message
with them. We ended up passing out two copies of the Book of Mormon and we also
got a few phone numbers. That doesn’t sound like very much but it is. Our Zone
has a goal of giving out 100 copies of the book of Mormon for the next six
weeks. So as you cant probably see it pretty hard to give out copies. I love
contacting though. I’m getting a little better with the language. One way to
learn faster is but writing out what I would want to say for a contact. They I
study those words out. I figured that is one of the most important things I
need to learn how to do at this point because that’s the majority of what we
do.
Another thing we do is English contacting. The
mission does English classes (taught by us) every Tuesday and Saturday. My
first time going to that will be tomorrow so we will see how it goes, but I
love English contacting. We basically just go around and pass out flyers about
the class. I have a lot of fun with it because I will sometimes start talking
to someone in English and they will just start at me and then ill explain it in
Romanian. Ha-ha Or if they know a little then I just explain to them in English
that they can learn more. And it’s free so when ever people hear the word
"free" they get really excited.
Lets see so this week we had 1 official lesson.
His name is Marian and knew Elder Rasmussen from when he served in Galati a few
months ago. He’s 18 and a really smart guy. In the lesson he actually brought
his girlfriend which was good too. He really likes to get off on tangents and
has so many questions about different things so we really tried to focus on
staying on topic. Anyways the lesson went so good and the spirit was so strong.
We talked mostly about the book of Mormon and Faith. After the lesson he
basically said that he likes us but that everyone believes in the Same God so
what’s the point. It was really frustrating because I know he had to have felt
the spirit and he just doesn't want to do anything about it.
Another experience we had was on Friday we were
English contacting and we started to talk to this black man from Kenya. He is a
refugee and there are not too many black people in Romania so we had to talk to
him. He actually only spoke English but was the happiest, funniest guy I have
met. We got his number and set up an appointment with him for the next day. So
to make it short, he’s what people call a weefy. Which is basically some who
says they are coming to an appointment but then never shows up. ha-ha So on the
Teaching record we put down that Abram (his name) is a very nice guy, very
weefy but apologetic. Haha he always says in so sorry I didn’t make it I was
eating. Ha-ha He has wasted a little bit of our time so I called him yesterday
and told him that whenever he wants to meet with us, just call us. He said he
would definitely do so. Ha-ha
That’s about it. Today I got my nice European
hair cut. I had way too much hair on my head so I just took a few pounds off.
It’s so hot here and the tailor shop is never open so I am still wearing long
sleeve shirts. Where’s Pete the Greek when you need him. Ha-ha anyways the
mission life is great. I love it here in Galati. Its so beautiful and being a
missionary is so fun. People just stare at me but if I catch them staring then
ill just walk up to them and start talking about the Church of Jesus Christ.
Ha-ha I love you all and thanks for the birthday wishes. I expect everyone to
send me presents. Ha-ha no doesn’t do that. Love you all and the Church is
true. Share it with the people you know, even if it’s only for a minute. Even
if they are not interested they will respect you more for doing it. Miss you
all and have a good week.
Elder Mayans
question and answers
Nad yes I will. My apartment looks really
crappy because the blocks are really ugly but the apartment is not too bad.
Church was decent. It’s been really hard because the branch has had some drama.
There have been some rumors that have been going around so we had to fix a few things.
Other than that it’s going good.
Sorry I didn’t answer a lot of your questions.
So the mission home is in Bucharest and that is about a 4-hour train ride so no
we are not close. And no I have not received tias package. I forgot to tell you
that at the moment it is pouring rain and there is a lightening storm. So it
will be interesting walking home ha-ha
One more thing, last week we had to go to iaşi
which is a 5 hour train ride for zone meeting. Iasi is an amazing city and has
a lot of history. I got an awesome picture but I don’t have it right now so
you will get that next week. We also went to a mall there and it was the
BIGGEST and nicest mall I have ever been it. It was so weird and I didn’t feel
like I was in Romania
Yesterday we went to the river
and it was crazy because there were so many people there. Now we know where
everyone goes on Sunday nights.
Love you pops!!! Have a good week and good luck
with work. Dude there is a huge storm right now it is crazy.
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