Epic Week

6-9-2014

Ok so here it goes! Crazy epic week this week and I have a lot to say.

I’ll try not to write too much but we will see how it goes!

SOOOOOOOO.....

On Tuesday of last week we had to do some less active work. We had

three less active members that we needed to visit but we never get all

the information on exactly where they live so it is always an

adventure and we ask a lot of people for directions. We searched forever

and couldn't find anyone! It was really frustrating. After a few hours

we were super tired so we decided to take a little break and sat on a

park bench. While we were there this random guy walked up to us and in

perfect English said, who are you guys and what are you doing here? We

were like well that is a great question. So, we told him how we are

missionaries for our church and we talk and teach people in Romania

more about our church. Then he basically said, yeah that’s great and I’ve

seen you guys for the past 15 years and I always wondered who you

were. He also said that he has been having a tough time lately and he

could use some help from the man upstairs! It was amazing!! We were so

happy and got his number. He’s probably around 25 and super nice. He

also almost started screaming when I told him I was from California!

haha He was very jealous. ha We are super excited about him and we

think we are going to at least have a few lessons with him. Right

after that we went to English class which also went well. After class

I talked to one of our students about our church and he took a Book of

Mormon and said he would read it! At the end of the day on Tuesday I

was really happy and I haven't had that much success in one day in a

long time!

Wednesday we had an exchange with the APs. I was with Elder Lex from

Austria. He’s great. We got invited to lunch from a member in our

branch. His name is Brother Lee, he’s from korea and his whole family

is living here in Romania for three years due to English. They are the

people we mostly translate for every Sunday. Anyway he took us to

Pizza Hut and it was soo good because he bought so much food and kept

saying, I think we need another salad, I think we need another pizza..

Its ok?? haha It was hilarious!  He doesn’t speak English very well but

we mostly talked about Korea, his family, way and ping pong! haha He

said in broken English that I am number one ping pong player in my

section of Korea! ha So I have a match set up to play him this next

week, I’m nervous but we will see how it goes. haha JK I’m going to get

destroyed by a professional Korean ping pong player. haha Then the

rest of the exchange we just did some contacting in the south part of

Bucuresti.

On Thursday we got on a train and headed up to Pitesti for another

exchange. Yup two exchanges in a row. Unfortunately because the train

times were a little messed up we didn’t get very much time up there but

with the time that we had we went to their district meeting and did

some contacting around the city. It’s a little weird in Pitesti right

now because all of their investigators that they have right now live

in a city about 45 minutes outside of Pitesti.

Friday, we had district meeting which took a very long time and wasn’t

very good. The district is good but everyone kinda does whatever they

want and we are not very united. The sisters most of the time have

crazy ideas that always conflict with everyone so since Elder Poulsen

and I are so close we usually just do are own things. That night we

had Friday sports night which was really good!! We had the most amount

of members show up and also we had a few investigators. It was a

blast. We just played soccer and then had a little spiritual thought

afterwards.

Saturday.. I don’t remember.

Sunday- was really different. In the morning we went to Brother Dobre

house and picked him up for church. Brother Dobre is a really old man

in a wheel chair. We are going to be wheeling him to church every week

from now on. It’s a pretty good walk too, about 30 minutes. He’s really

funny because it’s hard to understand him and he always tells you where

you need to go and what you’re doing wrong. Romanian streets and

sidewalks are a piece of junk here so it makes it really difficult with

a wheelchair. Then we had Sacrament Meeting which went well and then

Poulsen and I went with a few members to a little village outside of

Bucuresti (about 45 minutes) and had another Sacrament Meeting out

there with a few members and some of their friends who aren’t members!

It was amazing and were were in a tiny house in a village having

church service. Epic moment! Then they fed us some delicious foods.

soup, mystery meat, and some greasy potatoes. Incredible!!! Once we

got back to Bucuresti we went to another dinner appointment. I

probably got fed the most this week. We went to Sora Gorzos house

again, that old lady member that I sent a picture with about a month

ago. She’s still doing great and we are actually going to do some

service with her this week and clean her house.

Today for P day, because it was so hot, we went bowling at the Mall

and then went to McDonalds.... again. It’s cup season here in Romania. A

free coca cola cup with every purchase of a meal. 6 weeks, 6 cups...

gotta collect them all. ha

Love you all and hope you have a great week!!! As you can tell I am

still very busy and getting a lot of things done. We also have Zone

Conference coming up again this week on Wednesday so we have a lot of

planning to do. The Church is so true and I love being a missionary!

Nothing like it.

Love you!

Elder Mayans