WEEK 10

Earthquakes are fun Actually!

MARȚI 20 SEPTEMBRIE

On Tuesday it was raining. We went to lunch with Andreea (our favorite member in Bacau)!  Then she helped us with my visa stuff. We had to change Romanian Lei into Euro and then back into Lei to prove it was the right amount of money... kind of weird. Then our senior couple gave us calamari that they bought thinking it was onion rings. 'Twas an interesting day. Also, we got happy meals.

MIERCURI 21 SEPTEMBRIE

On Wednesday we went adventure contacting--which basically means we got lost in Bacau and no one wanted to talk to us. We had an appointment with a less active member but it fell through so our senior couple bought us more happy meals and Sora Kitchen wouldn't stop singing that song that's like "DO YOU REMEMBER THE 21ST NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER?"

JOI 22 SEPTEMBRIE

We had to go with Sora Aleman (senior missionary) to help her get a haircut. It was.... interesting. Then we had lunch with Andreea again. She's a translator for the church and she's helping to translate conference and is really stressed about it. It sounds like the coolest job ever though. For branch FHE, we had KAROKE NIGHT! It was so much fun, and Dragos came. Our branch president was so funny when it was his turn. Definitely a night to remember. AND THEN! A MIRACLE! Dragos called us when we got home and I set up an appointment for the next day in Romanian all by myself. It was great. And I found a laser pointer and a remote controlled car in our apartment. 

VINERI 23 SEPTEMBRIE

Friday! We had district meeting at our apartment and we made the Alemans squid and squash and a bomb salad a la me with spinach and pomegranate seeds and almonds and feta cheese and it was great. We worked on our area book and called a ton of former investigators. Our fridge broke but we fixed it. We went contacting in the park but then it started to rain and Romanians are like cats: they HATE rain. So then we just came home and did area book again.

SAMBATA 24 SEPTEMBRIE

On Friday night at 2 am there was an EARTHQUAKE! I'm from CA but I've never felt an earthquake before. It woke me up and I thought Sora Kitchen was just kicking my bed and I was really annoyed. But nope, earthquake. Two of our members called us to make sure we were okay which was really nice.

Yes, you have to document it--even at 2am!

Sora Kitchen was scared to go back to bed though so she got in my bed and then five minutes later starts laughing and says "if there's another earthquake and we die, they'll find us in the same bed and that would be weird" and gets back in her bed. Maybe you had to be there, but it was really funny. The next notable thing that day was English class. Dragos came! and Elder Aleman (senior elder) had the spiritual thought. He meant to share Mormon 9:7-9 and instead he read Moroni 9:7-9--in Romanian.... one is about prophets. the other is about cannibalism and murder and other fun things. Thankfully we stopped him before it got too bad. Then we went to McDonald's again. I'm gonna get so fat here. Actually I'm losing weight but I eat horribly... being young is great :) Anyway so then we went to visit a member who's in the hospital but he doesn't want anyone to know he's sick so I'm withholding the name. Then we had a lesson with Dragos.

Winter Boots and Turtlenecks!

DUMINICA 25 SEPTEMBRIE

So we had two investigators at church! Dragos and Cris. And Sora Kitchen and I both had to speak in sacrament. I talked about the atonement. In Romanian. It was okay. After that, we went to visit our member in the hospital again. I read him my talk and then we talked about patience. At one point, an old man in pajamas with a covrig (pretzel) in one hand and a catheter bag in the other walked past us and said (in Romanian) "You should take these beautiful girls to a coffee shop or a bakery, not a bench in a hospita,l" and then smiled creepily and walked over to the window. It was hilarious. We had another lesson with Dragos and it went really well! He talked about the church with a boy he lives with at his student housing and the other guy threw his cigarettes away because of it.

LUNI 26 SEPTEMBRIE

Today we went shopping (for winter clothes and  groceries) and then basically did nothing else because it's P-Day. I love Romania and anyone in a different mission should just be sad because it's not Romania. 

Love y'all! Have a great week!

Sora Lucy Gleason

România/Moldova Mission

July 2016-January 2018