Easter in Romania

4-21-2014

Hey Family!!! I wanted to send you a lot of pictures but now I don’t

have that much time to write. But the pictures say a lot and it was a

very, very fun, productive week.

So first off, Happy Easter!!!! Sounds like you all got together again

and had a lot of fun. It was quite fun over here too. President Hill

gave us permission for us to go to an orthodox Easter service. The

service started at midnight and it was really interesting! ha If I can

put it like that. The picture I sent you is Patriarch Dannel who is

one of the most important people in Eastern Orthodox. We thought it

was going to be a lot different but it was just a lot of talking and

praying and people crossing themselves. They also got a candle and

from this one candle people passed is around and by the end of the

night it was all over Bucuresti. It was awesome.

So this week was full with a lot of stuff. I think it’s better if I

just go day by day and it’s easier for me

So Tuesday we had to go to an apartment that is closing down in

Bucuresti so we had to go clean it which took a long time. After that

we had a lesson with Marian. It was our second lesson with him and

went really good. He wasn't really sure about the Book of Mormon last

time so we decided to really talk about that and explain more. He asks

a lot of questions and the lesson went really well. He accepted the

Book of Mormon and said he would read it. Hopefully he really does

read it and recognizes the spirit that comes from that book. Right

after the lesson we had our first English class of the transfer! It

went really weak. Elder Hokkanen and I are teaching medium level. We

expected more people to show up but that is the way it is. Our class is

pretty much half a bunch of old grandmas and half awesome young

students. We got a few potential investigators from a few of them so

hopefully they will agree to take some lessons.

Tuesday night we headed up back to Craiova to do an exchange with the

Elders over there. So on Wednesday we had the exchange. I was with

Elder Brundage and it poured rain all day. It sucked but we went into

a few blocks and contacted. We focused on Jesus Christ and the true

meaning of Easter. We also picked out a few scriptures to read from

the Book of Mormon when we contacted them at their doors. That was

pretty cool and it is something that I haven't tried before.

Thursday we were back in Bucuresti and had interviews with President

Hill and the Assistants. That went well and I feel like everything is

going really well this transfer. That night we had an Easter Activity

open for the public. We most just sang songs and showed video clips. A

good amount of people showed up and I thought it went well.

Friday we had District meeting which was amazing like always. It’s

always good to be in a good, close district. After that we went less

active contacting for a long time. We have about 600 less active

members here in Bucuresti. haha yeah it’s a lot so we are really trying

to see if we can find them and get them back to church. Most of the

time we don’t have all their information to find them so it’s an

adventure.

Saturday we had english class again. Not many people showed up because

of Easter so we just played Apples to Apples. Great game and they all

loved it. We did less active finding again on Saturday but didn’t find

anyone. That night we went to the Orthodox Slujba which was a lot of

fun.

Yesterday for Sunday we only had one hour of church. Then we went

contacting a bunch at 3 different parks but nobody was interested.

That’s mostly it. Today for p- day we played soccer and I am so tired

right now so sorry if this email isn't the best. Love you all and the

Church is true!!! Don’t be afraid to write me. I can never get too many.

Have a great week!!!!

Elder Mayans