WEEK 21

Spirit Journey

LUNI 5 DECEMBRIE

So it's tradition in this mission for every missionary to go on a spirit journey and receive a spirit animal. Monday night, Sora Yost took me on a spirit journey. The results were... confusing. We think I have two spirit

animals? Which is weird. But așa este. So my spirit animals are a rabbit and a wolf. Still trying to figure that one out, but they were both definitely there and mean something. 

MARTI 6 DECEMBRIE
Tuesday! First we went grocery shopping because we forgot to on Monday..... whoops. Then for lunch we made knockoff Olive Garden chicken gnocchi soup and it was incredibbbbllllllle. We went to go visit a member in a hospital. I still hate Romanian hospitals. Then English! It went so well. We showed the church's new Christmas video, #LightTheWorld (or #LumineazaLumea in Romanian) and our students really liked it. 

MIERCURI 7 DECEMBRIE
It snowed Tuesday night. So that was awful. We had lunch with Andreea and she's totally in love and it's adorable but I'm not allowed to say anything else about that. We went to the church and practiced with the primary for the primary program. And by primary I mean Irina (teacher) and her two daughters, Larisa (age 7) and Francesca (age 4). But they know the songs really well, and they're each going to talk about prophets. Then we went to the mall with Irina and her girls and Sora Aleman because Sora Aleman wanted to buy them Christmas dresses. It took FOREVER but it was soooooo much fun. 

When we got home, I made the dough and filling for my cranberry orange christmas cookies but we don't have a cookie sheet so they didn't get baked.

JOI 8 DECEMBRIE
We visited a member at his work. We planned for English. Then we went out to lunch at some cute little Italian restaurant. It was așa but the prices were really good, and they gave me enough pasta for three people. We limba studied and then headed to the church to prep for FHE. We did Christmas pictionary! Most things translated okay into Romanian but we really wanted to do Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer and the closest translation we could come up with that wasn't too weird was Bunica A Fost Atacata De Un Ren which literally means grandma got attacked by a reindeer. Our members were entertained.

VINERI 9 DECEMBRIE
District meeting! Basically useless as usual. Then we met with Bianca! It was suuuuuuch a good lesson. We talked about the restoration with her again and she's just such an incredible soul. I love her to pieces. She's in Helaman now in the Book of Mormon and is still set on finishing it and we're so happy for her. Nothing else really notable happened on Friday.

SAMBATA 10 DECEMBRIE
English! I hate English. I borrowed a cookie sheet from our senior couple but then I forgot to set a timer so I burned my cookies :(((( We went to visit Vlad in the evening and a bunch of kids run in the door screaming that there are six Santas outside. So we ran outside and there were six Santas playing instruments and marching down the street!

I filmed a little bit of it and this old baba walked in front of my camera and held up a picture of Jesus and then crossed herself after she walked away and it was really funny. WAIT I FORGOT TO TELL YAL so at vlad's store we armwrestled and I won, like legit he was actually trying but I won hahhahahahahahahahahhahaha.

After he lost.

DUMINICA 11 DECEMBRIE
Sunday! We said hi to an old lady on the street and she talked to us for twenty minutes and then invited us to her house! So we're going there tomorrow. It was Alin's birthday. He gave us cake when we visited him (we visit every Sunday). Then we went to the târg and contacted. Then home.

LUNI 12 DECEMBRIE
Not much today. We cleaned everything and met with a girl named Ella and now we're emailing. Also, less than two weeks until Christmas. WHAT? 

Sora Lucy Gleason
România/Moldova Mission
July 2016-January 2018