WEEK 20

How is it December?

The only pictures I took this week were selfies so I apologize in advance.

LUNI 28 NOIEMBRIE

So the only notable thing that happened on Monday that I didn't mention in last week's email is that Dragos texted us and said he regretted being baptized, and we haven't heard from him since. So that sucks.

MARTI 29 NOIEMBRIE

Tuesday we got to Skype with a member in Oradea (another city here) who's from the Dominican Republic because that is where Sora Letinu is going on her mission!  This member only speaks Spanish, so I kind of just sat there like "what is going on?" for an hour while Sora Letinu talked to her. Sora Yost was also there. It was cool. Then English. We had 40 people in our beginner class and 25 in our intermediate class. It was INSANE. But it went really well. Then we had an English student stay after to talk to us. She is a former investigator. 18 and knows where we live and told us stories of what the other missionaries did when she was investigating... yeah this mission has a pretty disobedient past. Also her English is perfect, accent included. And she walked us home. And went through 4 cigarettes in the ten minutes it takes to walk home. She was interesting.

MIERCURI 30 NOIEMBRIE

We bus-contacted for an hour and a half. I like buses. Even though Bacau is small enough that we really don't need to take the bus, they're still a nice way to talk to people since it's butt cold here and no one is ever outside. We went to visit one of our members. The branch president was there. I'm 99% sure they're getting married soon and it's SO EXCITING. Then for language study we read the Book of Mormon in three languages: me in Romanian, Sora Letinu in Spanish, and Yora Yost in French. It was fun.

JOI 1 DECEMBRIE

The first of December here is like our 4th of July. There was a parade. 

It was fun. We met with Bianca and man oh man, I love that girl.  She's great.  We had hot chocolate in a really cute but also Dolores Imbridgey cafe and it was good but also I felt like a three year old at a tea party. We visited a member in the hospital; Had FHE--volleyball in our TINY branch building. It was fun but I guess my competitive/athletic side came out and I was intimidating? Oops. It was fun. 

VINERI 2 DECEMBRIE

District meeting! Then tacos. I like Sora Kitchen's tortillas better than Sora Yost's but it's all okay. We had to go to the bank and then we rode buses for a few hours. Really slow day.

SAMBATA 3 DECEMBRIE

More english! We have so many people. It's insane. We went block-knocking and found a girl named Christina whose number was already saved in our phone. Crazy coincidence.  We hope something comes of it.

DUMINICA 4 DECEMBRIE

Basic sunday. Nothing special really. Sora Letinu packed and I took a nap, then we visited a friend in the hospital. 

LUNI 5 DECEMBRIE

We dropped off Sora Letinu at the train station at 11 and then went to the mall to grab lunch and shop for a birthday present for one of our members. We went to her house and she gave us SO MUCH FOOD. That's why we're late emailing today. She kept us there FOREVER. She's awesome though.

Sorry this email was so lame. Our weeks have been soooo slow lately. Someone update me on sports please, and also music. pa!

Sora Lucy Gleason

România/Moldova Mission

July 2016-January 2018