WEEK 29

Food, Food, Food

MARTI 31 IANUARIE
Tuesday was a weird day that I don't really remember much about. We got hot chocolate at some point. Taught English. The elders were ridiculous. That's basically it.

MIERCURI 1 FEBRUARIE
We went to visit Erika and her daughter Isabela. They're great, and Erika gave us some pesto her husband brought back from Italy. So it's store-bought Italian pesto, but still probably better than what y'all have in America :))) On our way back to the bus stop, I said hi to an old lady. Usually when you do that they just glare at you but this old lady actually wanted to talk! Which was great, until she told us she was a Jehovah's Witness and pulled out her Bible and started telling us why our religion was wrong. Not cool. We don't do that to you :((((( But I started talking with her about the plan of salvation and it was a good conversation. Until she started telling us everything we believed was wrong. Then we just walked away. And went to KFC 😊 After KFC we had language study and then we went to go see Laurentiu the book man again to submit more books the elders brought up from the mission office. My books aren't done yet, but soon! Then block-knocking. 

I used to love block-knocking, but it's been hard lately because it feels like EVERY door just gets slammed in our faces. But on Wednesday a super cool family let us in! We were able to talk about Joseph Smith with them and exchange numbers. They were cool. 

JOI 2 FEBRUARIE
Weekly planning! Then SaladBox for lunch. Is that a thing in the states? It's fast food salad type stuff. Super yum. Then we studied at a bookstore in the mall and ran into Rares! He's going to America this summer to work and he's going to Wisconsin! I think he said he was going to a city that starts with an R and possibly sounds like rockstar but I'm not sure. So that's cool because my family just moved to Wisconsin. His friends complimented our English and we were like.... we're from America.... and they didn't believe us. Apparently we look Romanian. We went block-knocking again on Thursday and a Jehovah's Witness answered the door and even HE thought we were Jehovah's Witnesses.... I swear we get asked a hundred times a day if we're them. No. We're not. 

VINERI 3 FEBRUARIE
District meeting wasn't horrible! Our elders talked in British accents the whole time and we brought food and we had to leave twenty minutes early so it was actually not horrible. We went to go visit Felicia! She made us pasta and had the news on in the background the whole time. There are huge protests going on in Romania right now because of some government thing. Go google it if you really care. It was a good visit with Felicia though. Then we headed to the church for games night. It was okay. Only two friends came but it was still good. The elders have a friend named Robert who's nineteen or twenty and he speaks PERFECT English with a PERFECT American accent. Seriously at first I thought the kid was from the US. We had an appointment in centru after games night and Robert lives that way so he walked with us and he's a super cool guy. So then we met Sora Handabut (she's a member) in a bakery in centru and watched the protesters go by. People bring their kids to protests here. It's a whole family affair. It's weird. That was day 3 of nationwide protests. We still got home okay though. The buses weren't stopped on Friday.

SAMBATA 4 FEBRUARIE
ENGLISH! I don't like it. The elders were ridiculous again. But it's fine, we worked it out. Sora Vann and I went to a steak place for lunch. It was so good.

My side of onion rings was as big as my head. It could have been a meal on its own. We splurged a little on that lunch but it's fiiiiine. It was yummy. Then we language studied and then we met with Teo! She didn't want to meet in centru because of the protests so we ended up in a bar.... but it's fine I got Sprite and Teo got lemonade and Sora Vann got hot cocoa.... totally fine. We had a good meeting with Teo and then we had to get home, BUT the protesters had stopped the buses. So we had to walk an hour home BUT we still got home on time! 

And I found a license plate on the sidewalk. So now I own a Romanian license plate. 

DUMINICA 5 FEBRUARIE
Church was OK. Kind of an ehhh week. We had a member ask us how missionary work was going and we said it was going well and then she snapped on us and said well if it's going well why isn't anyone here? don't you do anything?
Not a whole lot else happened yesterday because I wasn't feeling very good so we came home and I napped all day. My head hurt so bad but I'm fine now. It was weird. 

LUNI 6 FEBRUARIE
Groceries! I watched part of Oct 2012 Conference. We watched a movie about the building of the Salt Lake temple. and now I'm emailing. 

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