WEEK 15

"Call Thomas Monson..."

MARTI 25 OCTOMBRIE

Weird day. One of our members called us at 9:55am and was like, "Come downstairs. I have something for you." and we were like "kay????" because the members aren't really supposed to know where we live but they ALL DO. So we went downstairs and Vlad gave us a squash carved like a pirate and two milka bars. And then left. It was bizarre but we got this cute squash thing! 

​Anyway so then we made personalized Books of Mormon (we write notes in them and mark a bunch of scriptures) and then we had lunch with Andreea at this nastyyy Chinese place. Seriously, Romania will never be known for its chow mein. Anyway so the next notable thing on Tuesday happened during English class. Our landlord called us and started yelling at me in Romanian because apparently our electric bill payment wasn't processed right and our electricity was getting shut off :)))))))) So that was fun. And during medium English we were talking about favorite books and Dragos said his favorite was Cartea lui Mormon :)))))) yayyyyy I love him so much.

MIERCURI 26 OCTOMBRIE

First thing we did on Wednesday was go to the electric company and get everything sorted out. Don't worry; we have power still! That took basically all morning. Then after lunch I was feeling reallyyyyy not great. We had planned to go less active finding with the senior couple but..... I vomited up my lunch so we stayed home. It wasn't a very productive afternoon. However that evening we had a lesson with Dragos and Vlad. It went so well! And Dragos has mastered nose goes.... or "nasul merge" as he says :)

JOI 27 OCTOMBRIE

Literally we did basically nothing on Thursday because EVERYONE was busy and it was raining and no one wanted to stop and talk to us. We went less active finding and every single less-active on the list has either moved or we have an address that doesn't exist or they don't want contact or they throw boiling water on missionaries or threaten us with knives. (Read that in the area book--didn't happen to us.) So that's the end of less active finding for now. The senior couple took us out to dinner. It was good, but kind of an overpriced restaurant so I felt bad but they insisted. I made Sora Kitchen a planner for her first transfer back at home! She leaves in three weeks. that's crazy. 

​VINERI 28 OCTOMBRIE

Friday morning we went Halloween shopping for the branch Halloween activity! Then district meeting that isn't even a real district meeting because the senior couple thinks district meeting is synonymous with weekly planning. Ours is the only district in the mission without any elders.  

Then we met with Bianca. She's still reading the CLM every day and is more than half done now! Then we set up for the Halloween party. We had the donut on a string thing and apple bobbing and pin the heart on the skeleton and grapefruit carving in loc de pumpkins.

It was a lot of fun :) I made cat ears out of black construction paper and bobby pins and was Cat Woman 2.0. Do any of y'all remember my Cat Woman from last year? I had to keep the tradition alive :) 

​SAMBATA 29 OCTOMBRIE

First thing we went to go clean up the church building because the Halloween party was kinda messy... we carved grapefruit on the sacrament table because it's the only table we have. Hope that's not sacrilegious! But yeah we had a LOT of cleaning to do before English class. And then English class. We met with Dragos that evening and he was talking about serving a mission someday.... ahh! He's getting baptized on Saturday and we're SO EXCITED. I love him so much and honestly I'm stoked. 

DUMINICA 30 OCTOMBRIE

Sunday! We got an extra hour of sleep because of Daylight Savings Time. Thanks Ben Franklin or whoever it was that invented that. Pretty sure it was Ben Franklin. Someone google that and lemme know. Anyway so on our way to church Dragos ran up behind us and scared the crap out of us. It was funny but also I literally thought we were about to get mugged. We had three investigators at church! And one of our new investigators, Dan, told us to "call the big reverend in America and tell him there's gonna be a waterfall in the bathtub in the temple". HE WANTED US TO CALL THOMAS S MONSON AND TELL HIM THAT A RANDOM ROMANIAN GUY WAS BUILDING A WATERFALL FOR THE TEMPLE BAPTISTRY. We almost died laughing. Uh, we don't have his number.

But anyway, I spoke in sacrament meeting! I knew all week I had to speak but just didn't feel like writing a talk. I was just supposed to talk on one of the missionary lessons. So I threw the Plan of Salvation and Gospel of Jesus Christ together and made the whole thing up on the spot IN ROMANIAN. Everyone said it was wonderful. So booyah, procrastination and lack of motivation actually do work. Sometimes. We had another lesson with Dragos. Right now we're watching videos from biblevideos.org with him and reading the stories from the Bible because he's not super familiar with it. It's cool. We visited Vlad at work and it was a great day.

LUNI 31 OCTOMBRIE

Happy Halloween! Today i mailed a letter (to Austin--sorry I don't have a lot of time to write and he's my favorite) and got covrig and went to the mall and bought socks and long sleeved shirts and a winter coat. We had lunch with Andreea and I love her so much. Then came to the church to email y'all.

Have a great week! 

love ya,

Sora Lucy Gleason

România/Moldova Mission

July 2016-January 2018