Life in Romania

5-26-2014

Sorry you guys had a little bit of a rougher week. That’s cool that you

were able to spend some time with Scott and Liz, they’re great. Tell him

I’m still just livin the dream.

This week was a little slower than others. Nothing too big happened and

the people we had lessons for bailed on us. Just the way it is. We do

have a promising lesson this Tuesday which would be tomorrow! It’s

going to be with a less active member with 3 of his friends so if it

goes through then it will be great and we might be getting a few new

investigators. I’ll let you know

 what happens. I know I said that last week but I really do think

these people really want to meet with us so it should be great :)

So just a little recap on this week. It has been sooo, sooo hot!! I am

dying in church clothes! ha I thought I would be used to it by now but

nope, I’m not. haha It has also been raining every once in a while which

makes it really humid too. I always seem to have a beverage in my

hand. This week we continued to do a lot of English because we really

want a good turn out. Usually it’s a lot bigger near summer because

less people are in school and people have more free time. Instead of

parks we hit a lot of streets and different parts of Bucuresti.

Also on Friday after district meeting we had this 15 year old boy walk

into the church. Elder Poulsen and I attempted to walk up and talk to

him and then he just started talking about all the things he knows

about our church. It was so random and incredible. haha He talked

about the whole first vision and all of the doctrines in our church.

Then he blew my mind when he started talking to us about the Urim and

Thummim and baptism for the dead! haha This kid was 15! It was

actually really impressive and he didn’t really let us speak, he just

wanted to tell us everything he knows. After he was done we invited

him to come to our sports night and got his number so that we can

contact his parents. He also wanted a Book of Mormon so we talked

about that and gave him one of those. It was something that completely

took me by surprise and was unexpected but it was cool. I have noticed

that a lot of kids are more open and say that our church is not as bad

as everyone says it is. haha Maybe there is a big generation of a lot

of youth joining the church in Romania.

On Saturday we had a different experience as well. In the morning we

help out with a youth activity that was at the church. It was all the

youth in our district so it covered a big part of Romania. About 20

youth. It was mostly about the for strength principles and things like

that. It was really straight forward but really good and everyone was

really into it and learned from it. The Youth program here is small

but awesome and they are really strong members. I look up to them

because most of their family and friends abandon them and make fun of

them for being members. After that we played board games with all of

them and soccer.

Then the same day after the activity we went and did service at the

Church farm!!! Instead of a Bishops Warehouse, Romania has a farm here

for members who need help with food and things like that. I have never

been there before but its about a 45 minute drive outside of

Bucuresti. We went there and it was really hard work. There were a lot

of plants and weeds but we hacked at the dirt for a few hours and made

some rows to plant some vegetables. We planted some tomatoes and

peppers. I got blisters all over my hands. The best part was that we

found a few lost puppies out in the fields and played with them. ha

I’ll send some pictures of that.

Church was great on Sunday. We had to translate and also we taught the

Gospel Essentials class for the second hour. It was really good and

there were a lot of investigators there so we had a lot of really good

discussions. We talked about enduring to the end.

I’m loving it out here and having such a good time. If feels so good

and rewarding to serve the Lord 24/7. It’s a once in a life time

opportunity and it makes me so grateful for my Savior and His Gospel.

I couldn't do it without Him. Have a great week and I love you all!!!

oh and an old man called me a witch this week. haha I told him I wasn’t

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