Great pics of Jacob in Romanian snowstorm!!

1-24-2014

Hello my beautiful family!

Well I guess that winter has finally hit Romania! It has been a crazy

week and has been snowing hard since Friday.. and I am freezing! The

weird thing is that is was starting to get warmer and then a huge

storm came out of nowhere. So I have a lot of good pictures to send this

week.

So this week.. let’s see. On Tuesday we had our first English class

which was awesome! We had a total of about 30 people come which is

still a ton! I love teaching English and it’s one of very few times

where I can really get to know people and talk to them. It’s great and

I think the people who come like how we teach even though we aren’t the

best English teachers.

On Wednesday I don’t remember exactly what we did but we contacted a lot. haha

On Thursday we had district meeting and also the ZL's came to have an

exchange with us. District meeting was really good and I think our

district works really well together. We come up with a lot of good

ideas on things we can do during the week. Also the exchange with the

ZL's went pretty well. I was with Elder Hokkanen from Finland. He’s

really different but still a good Elder. We went survey contacting which

I have never done before. We walked around and asked people if they

could take a 10 question survey about "intrebarele sufletului"

(questions of the soul). We then asked them simple questions about

religion and got some pretty cool responses. It was just another way

to tell people who we are and what we believe.

Friday is when it started to snow like crazy. We had a long day in the

snow and then Friday night activity. We did a spiritual thought on the

importance of prayer and then played uno!!! We had 2 people show up.

On Saturday we had English again which was great as always. Not as

many people came due to the weather but it was still a good turnout.

Also on Saturday we went to the hospital again just like last time!!!

I love hospital contacting. There’s always the nicest people there. We

 had a chance to sing to a lot of families. The stickers are

great too because they love them and it’s a good way to break the

barrier when we walk into the rooms.

Sunday we had a decent amount of people at church. Our guest speaker

Didn’t come probably because of the weather so we had to fill in a lot

of time. We are starting the Old Testament in Sunday school so that’s

always fun. After church we had a lot of time on our hands to spare.

Elder Brundage and I decided to go block knocking which we are not

huge fans of doing. We did this HUGE block with like 70 doors and not

one of them even let us speak. Some of them got really mad at us

because it was Sunday and apparently that was not ok. haha We took it

lightly and laughed about it later. So yeah, block knocking isn’t the

best. On the way back to the apartment we helped a few people shovel

snow or get their car un-stuck.

That’s about it. We have President coming this week for interviews and

I am giving a talk next week. Other than that just more finding and

trying not to freeze. Love you all. This Church is true and it makes

me so happy to be able to serve and love people. Have a great week!

Elder Mayans