Well, now that my subject line has piqued your interest, I'm not gonna explain any of it until I get there chronologically. So ya best keep reading!
This week was great. I have some highlights I want to talk about and I'll probably forget a million things but that's okay.
First: Matthew Holland (son of Jeffrey R.) came and did our devotional on Sunday! It was all about the life of Joseph Smith and it was so cool. The choir (btw, I'm in the choir) sang Praise to the Man and it was super duper cool. Then after, we got to watch Ephraim's Rescue which is a pioneer movie. It was a good Sunday. Also, sacrament meeting was fast and testimony meeting and hearing all of the missionaries' testimonies was super great. We're in a branch with all of the Italy missionaries and they're all awesome.
Sorella Holiday, if you're reading this, Sorella Waltch and Sorella Taylor are heading for Rome next week and they're SUCH great people!
Okay, moving on. On Monday we had just a normal day, nothing special happened. Until dinner. For dinner, we had CHICK FIL A. IT WAS A MIRACLE AND I MIGHT HAVE CRIED A LITTLE BIT. Seriously if you know me at all, you know how obsessed I am with CFA. We had two of our varstnicii sneak some sandwiches out of the cafeteria for us to eat later........ don't tell anyone hahahah.
Tuesday was another FANTASTIC day. Our favorite teacher Fratele Simmons was there (so it just started on a good note) and then he gave us THE MOST AMAZING NEWS EVER. So our mission is having a mission conference a week after we get there, and guess who's coming? PRESIDENT DIETER F UCHTDORF. I'M GOING TO MEET PRESIDENT UCHTDORF. And there's also a possibility that we'll get to go to Dracula's castle during that first week so that's incredible too. Our whole district is still kind of in shock over the whole thing. It's so cool. Apostles verrryyyyyyy very very rarely ever visit Romania. We're so happy.
Our speaker at the Tuesday night devotional was wonderful too. The devo was broadcast to every MTC in the world because Elder Neil L Anderson came and spoke to us! He talked a lot about miracles and how if we look for them, we'll find them. The message I got from it was really to never put a lid on how God can work through you. Set high expectations and then figure out how to reach them. It was a good day.
On Wednesday (yesterday) during exercise time I met with on of the ATs because my knee has really been bothering me and surprise surprise.... it's hurt again. So does anyone remember how my senior year during softball conditioning I hurt my hamstring and had to quit? Because that's back again. I am not allowed to exercise until Monday and have been given strict orders to stretch it out three times a day, wrap it if it gives me issues, and apply heat/ice during gym time. Yay. But the good news is, I'll be fine. I also got super good at all the sports here, but it doesn't matter 'cause now I can't play them.
My Romanian is getting better and better every day. We're finally learning about grammar so we don't sound like toddlers anymore. That's good. We currently have two investigators, Cristian and Cosmin, as well as two TRC (teaching resource center--basically just talking to Rom/Mld RMs in Romanian) lessons per week. Next week we'll start Skype TRCs with members in Romania. HOW COOL/SCARY IS THAT?
I'm grateful for all of the emails that I got and I'm sorry if I didn't get a chance to reply to you! Send me your mailing addresses if you super wanna hear from me because I get way more time for letters than emails.
Some other highlights from this week: Sora Idiart's mom sent us a ping pong net and paddles and ball so we had a ping pong tournament this morning.
The mom of a girl serving in Romania right now reads my blog and sent my whole district cookies--I'm excited to meet her daughter!
The food is still bad but it's getting better. I had cheese/broccoli soup and a sandwich yesterday and it was good. I got a haircut today
The MTC store doesn't work as well as online shopping for stress relief, but today I bought myself beef jerky and a Romanian hymn book and I feel better. If anyone would like to send me microwave popcorn, my companion will love you forever. She's been craving it for weeks.
I have to prepare a talk in Romanian this week--should be fun.
My mom sent me 20 pairs of socks and it was honestly the best package ever--thanks mom.
We've accidentally said six Romanian swearwords just because we don't know how to say anything, so that's cool, I guess. Three of us wrote home about the marker situation last week so we all got markers sent to us.... we have at least fifteen markers now. It's great. the Italians are jealous.
OH YEAH, the Nashville Tribute Band is coming back on our last Sunday here (they were also here on our first Sunday) and we get to sing with them! Look them up; they're great.
For my Stockton friends: do any of you remember Madison Nelson? she lived here awhile ago and went to girls camp with us for a couple years... I saw her last week! She left on Monday for Pennsylvania I think. It was cool to talk to her.
Honestly, I love my district and teachers and everything so much. It's so much fun to be here. I can't think of anything else but y'all are great. Much love!
Sora Lucy Gleason
România/Moldova Mission
July 2016-January 2018
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