WEEK 9

Well would you look at that--

It's a picture that has both me and President Uchtdorf in it.... I also got to shake his hand..... He said that Stockton is a beautiful city and that my smile was beautiful. Are you jealous? You should be :)   For my nonmormon friends on here: Dieter F. Uchtdorf is a member of the First Presidency of our church and is an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the coolest ever; look him up!

On Tuesday we met with a girl named Ella who's a potential investigator. She speaks English and swears a lot but is super cool. She's a senior in high school. we also taught English class on Tuesday. I don't like teaching English class because  I'm like.... no that's not right that's not what the verb infinitive is, that's spelled wrong, etc., but I don't speak enough Romanian to teach it myself. 

Wednesday I don't really remember.

Thursday we had a meeting with our branch president. He's going through the temple in October and is SO excited about it. He's spending three days there and is gonna do hecka family names and it's so cool. We also had FHE and we just watched Tarzan and ate cookies because that's what the members wanted... so kinda coo,l actually.

Friday we had district meeting and then went on a wild goose chase to find an HDMI cord. They don't exist here--at least not the kind we needed.  We met with Cris, an investigator who only really meets with us because his self-help book said he needs to widen his circle of friends, but it was fun. He just graduated from nursing school and decided he wants to be a computer programmer so he's starting school over. The senior couple made us lunch on Friday and it was HAMBURGER HELPER. ARE YOU SERIOUS?

Dragos is doing okay and so's Bianca. Both are kinda stuck because he's only sixteen and his family situation is complicated; and Bianca wants to finish the whole Book of Mormon before she's baptized and is only about 100 pages in (it's like 660 pages in Romanian).  We do street contacting mostly because everyone lives in apartment buildings. It's raining here today :)

Saturday I was a little sick so the first thing we did was English class at noon. It was cool because one of our students brought us food, then we cleaned the church and our appointment fell through; so I practiced piano at the church. It was district conference and Dragos came! It was a super weird district conf. (stake conf. except we don't have a stake), but it was still good. Then we did language study and had dinner and planned and that was it.

Sunday we had more district conf. and no one came except like 2 people. Still good though. Then we had lunch and did language study, then we met with Claudia and Alexandra (new investigators) at the park. Claudia is golden and Alexandra... isn't. We'll see how that goes. They're both nurses who speak perfect English. The only investigator we have who doesn't speak perfect English is Dragos but he still understands it perfectly. It's hard to learn the language when NO ONE SPEAKS IT--EVER.

Then today is Monday. We paid our bills and went to a bookstore and did laundry (there's a washer in our apartment. It's great. We just have to hang everything to dry).  Today for lunch I had a Covrigul Haiducesc. It's basically a stuffed soft pretzel with cream cheese and ham and onions. It's the best one on the menu, in my opinion.  There's hecka snickers bars here, and in Moldova you can get snickers with hazelnuts. Sora Kitchen has a giant box of them and they're so good. 

My trainer is the coolest. She listens to old Train and can quote Arthur and loves Cool Runnings and it's the best. she reminds me of my real mom and it's awesome.

Now we're emailing. 

Happy Monday.

Sora Lucy Gleason

România/Moldova Mission

July 2016-January 2018