Romanian Life

1-13-14

Hello Family!!!!!

How is everyone doing!!! It has been an amazing week in the mission

life and I feel like these weeks fly by so fast. So to start off this

week was transfers so it consisted of a lot of traveling. On Wednesday

we went down to Bucuresti so that I could get my new district and head

back to Craiova. And my new district is fun and has a lot of

character. So as I told you before, my new companion is Elder Brundage

and he is awesome. One thing I have been really thankful for is

getting great companions. It started to get a little rough serving

with my last companion last transfer and things weren’t moving very much but now it should be great!! Actually Elder Brundage is from Gilbert AZ

and knows Truman Halliday pretty well. Small world. Anyways, I’m really

excited to work with him and I already know its going to be a great

transfer.

As for the other members of the district, There’s Sora Newell who is in

her forth transfer. She is really funny and has a lot of dry humor

which makes me laugh. She’s training Sora Wright who has been in the

country for about 4 days. haha The only way i can describe her is

straight out of the MTC. She is SUPER excited and happy. She’s also

really hyper and talks really fast but she’s great. If you thought I

talked fast you should hear this girl. Holy cow. So that’s it for the

district. I feel like its a really good district for Craiova and there

is plenty of stuff to be done here.

Now as for the week. Well it’s a new transfer so that means English

classes are starting up again in 2 week. We are making sure we are

passing out plenty of cards and putting up posters to advertise. More

than 50% of the missions success is from English classes so its

important that we get a lot of people there. Also on Thursday night

we, as a district had correlation meeting at President Spooners

apartment. We are still really trying to get all of these less active

members to come back to church. We had one member this week tell us he would go to church and also that family from the hospital said they

want to come too. Unfortunately yesterday nobody showed up. So I don’t

really know what to do but we will try to contact them and get them to

come again. Also at church I am now the new translator when President

or Sora Spooner speaks. Let me tell you it was so hard! haha When your

up there translating, all the pressure is on you. haha They say

something and no matter if it’s right or wrong something is coming out

of your mouth a few seconds later. It’s really hard to translate for me

because you don’t just directly translate word for word from English to

Romanian. I did fine I think and got the majority right. My brain was

fried afterwards though because I had to translate a talk and all of

Sunday school.

Other than that I have just been living the good life and loving the

mission. For the past weeks I haven't seen the sun but now the past 2

days its been clear skies and sunny. If winter is over here than that

was the easiest winter ever. Its beautiful here and its crazy to think

that I have almost been through all the seasons here in Romania.

Love you all. Have another great week and write me if you can. It’s

always great to get E-mails and I will try to respond.

The Church is true.

Elder Mayans