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First we went to the gara (train station) to pick up Sora Falkenberg and Sora Simmons at 7 in the morning. It was cold.
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| No photos this week so this is a stock shot from the internet. |
Then we went grocery shopping. Daniela was in town and Sora Vann wanted to see her so we went to lunch with her. We went block-knocking. We realized after the first 20 doors that block-knocking on Valentine's Day wasn't the best idea... I had completely forgotten it was even Valentine's Day.
MIERCURI 15 FEBRUARIE
I don't remember much of what we did on Wednesday. No one was free to meet with us so it was just a day of unsuccessful contacting.
JOI 16 FEBRUARIE
We went to see Erika! We split our visit and spent 30 minutes talking to Erika and then 30 minutes playing with Isabela and speaking in English (she's two) because Erika wants her to learn English. She watches English cartoons and sings English songs. It's so cute. Then KFC! Then we met with Herecleea. It was a good meeting except at one point we were talking about different grading systems and I asked Herecleea what the average grade was here and she totally doesn't know what that means.... It wasn't a language barrier thing, she speaks perfect English and I translated it into Romanian after she didn't get it.... she's just 17 and doesn't know what an average is. After that we did language study at the bookstore and I was reading the Bible in Romanian and I just could not keep my eyes open... So I grabbed a copy of the Romanian constitution off one of the shelves and read that instead. It was awesome. I miss legal stuff #mocktrial4ever. Then we met with Teo! She's doing great. But we've decided that we're going to pick our meeting places from now on instead of her... because this time she picked an awesome little cafe that doubled as a hookah bar. Oh Teo.
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| Again, no photos, but this is a cafe in Cluj online that fit the bill. |
VINERI 17 FEBRUARIE
District meeting. eh. Then Sora Bian! The new sisters wanted to come with us so the whole thing was awkward because they both just talked the whole time and didn't leave Sora Vann or I any room to say anything. I love them, but I don't like sharing my city. Also during language study in the bookstore, guess what song I heard? Soul Man by The Blues Brothers. So random, but it made my day.
SAMBATA 18 FEBRUARIE
We cleaned the church. The new soras walked all over Sora Vann's freshly mopped floor because they just couldn't wait ten minutes to take the trash out. I'm trying to be like Jesus but bro it's hard. We met with Maria Militaru and her mom and brother. They're great. Her mom gave us sarmale and supa to take home :)) also a lot of fruit because I mentioned that I was craving fruit lately. She's the sweetest lady.
DUMINICA 19 FEBRUARIE
Church was fine. We got stuck in branch council for 90 minutes. It would have been fine minus the calls to repentance. Then! Oh boy. I'm trying to be like Jesus. A certain member invited us over for dinner, but the last time we went we got stuck there for four hours and his food made me sick and he makes uncomfy remarks to the sister missionaries so Sora Vann and I didn't want to go. And the elders and other sisters kind of guilted us about it a little and made me at least feel like I was a bad missionary for telling him we had other plans, which we did! Ahhhh. This is going to be a rough transfer.
Today we waited around all day to help the sisters move because it was supposed to happen in the morning but it didn't. I'm so frustrated. Is it really that hard to think about how your lack of planning affects other people?? Okay, I'm trying to be like Jesus. They're lovely people, but their actions are frustrating.
Have a great week!
Sora Lucy Gleason
România/Moldova Mission
July 2016-January 2018
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