Romania

2-24-2014

Hey everyone!!!

Thank you all for all your emails!!! It’s great to get a lot of e-mails

and read about all the things that have been going on. Sorry if I have

not responded. I try my best to e-mail back.

So I wouldn’t say that this week was the best week but we still did

a lot. Mostly a lot of street contacting and talking to people about

English. Nobody went down to Bucharest for transfers because our whole district

stayed the same so we weren’t able to get our supplies and most

importantly our English cards. So we just had to work with what we

have and tomorrow we have Zone Training meeting in Bucharest so we

will get them then.

In the beginning of the week it was beautiful and sunny so we went to

the park and talked to so many people it was awesome. Time flies when

you’re going from one person to another. We actually ran into a pretty

big group of kids about our age and they were all speaking English. So

we had to say something because its not every day that we hear people

speaking english. Turns out they were from all around the world (If I

can remember: Uganda, Costa Rica, Brazil, China, and Ukraine) and they

were all here in Craiova teaching some class of kids on how to be

successful in life. It was so much fun talking to them and they were

all really nice. They brought up a lot of questions like what are we

doing and it was a really good way to share with them a little about

our church. It was interesting because the girl from Uganda was like

oh yeah the mormon missionaries, I love them and we are very familiar

with them. And then the girl from China was like Ihave never heard of

you guys before. haha Over all most people knew who we are which was

really nice to hear because nobody knows about Mormons here. ha

Towards the end of the week it rained a lot which wasn't as fun.

Nobody was out and very few let us talk to them.

We are still in need of some investigators and we are running out of

time!! It’s a little frustrating that we haven't been able to find any.

We have gone through the area book many times to call former

investigators but all the ones that we actually met with do not want

to progress and just like to have company. We have also called most

of the inactive members that are men (which there aren’t many) And they are

all a blacked out number! We are still trying and we are hoping for a

little miracle this week because we really need it. We only need a few

solid active members for this branch to stay open but at the pace that

it’s going right now it will close.

Let’s see, other than that not a whole bunch happened this week. Nobody

showed up to our Friday night activity so that was a bummer. We are

just trying to stay positive here in Craiova. I am still loving it so

much and I know it’s the work of the Lord. I love you all and thank you

so much for all of your support.

Elder Mayans

Mommy!!!!!

So first to answer a few things you mentioned in the last e-mail, First

off about Ukraine. Ya I have heard a lot about it actually it on all

the news here. I heard it’s getting worse and its pretty close to where

Ryan is. Hopefully they will figure things out because if it gets

worse they will probably take missionaries out of there.

Also Elder Bundage and I have started running 3 times a week and it

has been great. If you could though in your next package send me my

running shorts. If you haven’t moved everything around in my room yet,

they should still be on the bottom rack left side of my closet. They

are black and have a speedo lining inside it. They are really light so

it will be worth it to send. The shorts that I have right now stink.

Also, other package ideas, I need some more Cholula! haha And a workout

band because mine broke. Thanks mom.

I love the email from Chester! haha Tell him to not worry I’ll be there

soon!!! ha I love Chester!