WEEK 12

IT'S HALLOWEEN MONTH WHICH MEANS IT'S TIME FOR CHRISTMAS MUSIC EVEN THOUGH I LOVE THANKSGIVING

Morning Sky

MARTI 4 OCTOMBRIE

We had lunch with Andreea at Viking. Met with Dragos. Talked about the temple. Taught English. I still hate teaching English. But two of our students brought us pizza so yayyyy. Then we had a lesson with Cris (investigator) and Alin (member). It was okay. On our way home a drunk guy stopped us and asked for a Book of Mormon.

MIERCURI 5 OCTOMBRIE

We went with our senior couple to take care of some of their visa stuff. Another lesson with Dragos. He said he wants to go to the temple someday. I made squash and broke a mug. One of our members said something really funny about DST but I don't remember what. We got ice cream.

JOI 6 OCTOMBRIE

We went and visited a woman named Mihaela. She's a psychotherapist who does 30/30s with us. (thirty minutes of English lessons and thirty of gospel.) She's eccentric to say the least. She looks like a mix of ScarJo and Edna Mode. But I'm 90% sure she's only using us for English because she really doesn't like hearing about the church so we're probably going to slow down on the visits. We were going to meet a member in the park afterward but she bunged us so we called former investigators instead. Then we met with Dragos. He's a cool kid. FHE was next. We did some games and had some food and it was great fun. 

VINERI 7 OCTOMBRIE

District meeting with the Alemans. Lunch with Andreea at KFC. Lesson with Bianca! We helped her with her English homework and then talked about obedience. She's still reading the Book of Mormon every day! And she said that obedience isn't a quality, it's a way of life, and of course she'll be obedient, because she loves God. It was great. We met with Dragos afterward. There was a flea market thing (i think it's called a targ????) in centru so we walked through it with him and neither Sora Kitchen nor I felt like teaching a lesson was the right thing to do with him right then. So we just talked, and then he left. We went to visit Vlad (member) at work after that. Vlad is the coolest.

SAMBATA 8 OCTOMBRIE

It was the last day of English classes for this round so we watched a movie. Mulan. Apparently it's a thing in this mission to watch movies all the time? Seems weird to me but whatever. Anyway so then I was feeling sick, so when we went home for lunch I just flopped down on my bed and next thing I knew it was three hours later. I hate napping here because I feel so unproductive.

A bee's wax candle I bought for less than a dollar.

DUMINICA 9 OCTOMBRIE

Fast Sunday! All the testimonies were great. Sora Kitchen and I helped in the primary. I helped our branch president with some family history stuff because he's going to the temple this week! Yay! After church we met with Dragos in the park (he came to church by the way which is cool) and we talked about what he thinks about what we've taught. A gypsy lady came up and wanted to do a card trick and we just ignored her because really she wanted our money but she wouldn't go away so Dragos gave her a leu (it's worth about a quarter). And she was like, give me ten lei and I'll guess her name (about S Kitchen) and Dragos was like, lady I'm not dumb she has a nametag; go away. After ten minutes she finally left. So twenty minutes go by and another gypsy lady approaches us, but this time she targets me. I just said all cutesy with my best American accent "Nu vorbesc limba romana, scuze" but she didn't leave she kept shoving these cards in my face and then Sora Kitchen is like "La sa ne!" (leave us or something like that idk the literal translation) and the lady hit her on the nose! Dragos kinda shoved her and then she left. Weird. So then we went to visit Alin (member). It was..... well, it's Alin and you kind of have to know him to understand. We made tacos for dinner. Legit tacos with homemade tortillas and shredded chicken and beans and rice and cheese. it was so good.

LUNI 10 OCTOMBRIE

Well.... it's transfers today and I'm in a trio! Until Wednesday lol. Sora Rich came down from Iasi because her new companion isn't getting there till Wednesday but her old one left today and there aren't other sisters there now. So she's here! She's great. This is her last transfer. We finally finished applying for the Alemans' visas! Hallelujah. We went grocery shopping and bought a really cute pumpkin. It's freezing here. That was my week!

Sora Lucy Gleason

România/Moldova Mission

July 2016-January 2018