SUSHI: It does exist!
Okay so on Tuesday we went grocery shopping because it was the last business day of the month which meant $$$. So we did that and then headed to the other mall that's out in the middle of nowhere to have lunch with a member and the other sisters. It was fun. We had pizza. After that we taught English! Then we went over to Maria and Cristi's house (brother and sister) Maria is 17 and Cristi is 20 or 21. Their family has been investigating the church for 11 years. We played rummy with them and talked a little bit about how they feel about the church, since they basically grew up with it even though they're not members. Cristi isn't really a fan of any Christian church because he thinks that it's unfair that Christ suffered for everyone's sins. That made us sad. But then Maria chimed in and was like, "Well I like the church a lot. I feel the spirit a lot when I'm with you guys and I like it." And that made us super duper happy. Then it got late and we had to go, but Maria's mom gave us six oranges to take home. Did I mention that we bought oranges when we grocery shopped? So all of a sudden we had 13 oranges in our fridge instead of 7. I've been eating an orange a day and we still have a ton.
MIERCURI 1 MARTIE
Wednesday was a really important day in Romania! It's a holiday called Mărțișor, which literally means "little March" and it's a day when guys give girls little trinkets with red and white thread. I explained that horribly. Anyway so we went contacting in the piatas and while we were there we bought ourselves mărțișoare because both Sora Vann and I will only have one Mărțișor in Romania.
It was a ton of fun. Then we had a 30/30 with one of our English students, but as soon as the English 30 minutes were over and it was time to start the gospel 30 minutes, she dipped. So that was lame. We were supposed to meet with Teo after that but she ended up having to work. We had to be home early so we could go to the block office and pay a bill, and then it was dinner time.
JOI 2 MARTIE
We visited Erika but when we got to her house, no one was there. We called, but no answer. But Erika has never bunged us like that before, plus her dog was gone, so we figured she took the dog for a walk and lost track of time. So we sat on her porch for twenty minutes waiting, and then she walks out her front door and apologizes because she accidentally fell asleep with her two-year-old during naptime. So I'm glad we stayed and waited for her! We had a really good visit. Erika loves the church so much, and the only reason she doesn't come is because her husband doesn't like it. So we're working on that. Then our dinner appointment cancelled on us, and this dinner appointment would have fed us a TON of food so we were planning on skipping lunch. But since she cancelled, we had lunch and then weekly planned. I don't remember what else.
VINERI 3 MARTIE
District meeting! It was okay. Then we made English curriculum that's actually good. That evening we met with Teo and set a plan for her to be ready for baptism and it went so well! She came prepared with her questions from the Book of Mormon because every time she doesn't understand something, she marks it and then we talk about it. It's great. She just finished 2 Nephi :))) After Teo, we had games night with the other missionaries and our friends and people actually came this week! We played signs for the whole time and it was so much fun. Teo originally was only going to stay for thirty minutes but ended up staying for the whole time :)
SÂMBĂTĂ 4 MARTIE
We cleaned the church and then had English. Then we went to a Relief Society activity at a cute little bakery. I had rasberry pie but the crust wasn't very good. Romanian pastries/desserts just aren't that great. Then we went to visit a potential named Susie who works at a little piata selling Catholic stuff (like the saint pictures and cross necklaces). We've visited her a few times and she is the sweetest thing! Last time she gave us each a calendar for free, so this time we brought her a Book of Mormon :) She was really happy and then said her daughter met the other sisters last week and was interested in learning more! The other sisters got her number and sent it to Bucuresti (the daughter goes to school there) and it was just really cool that Susie's family randomly got connected to the church at the same time. That night we made ciorba. It was delicious. Shoutout to Elder Cochran for the recipe. Actually shoutout to whichever Romanian lady gave him the recipe. It was yum.
DUMINICĂ 5 MARTIE
Ha. Where to even start.... No one had any investigators at church. That turned out to be a giant blessing because sacrament meeting turned into all the members getting up and talking about each other and calling people out for gossiping and just a lot of not good things. It was crazy. The branch president got up at the end and was just like, yo. this needs to stop NOW. And then during the rest of church everyone acted like nothing happened. After church all the missionaries went over to Sora Constantin's for dinner. It was SO GOOD. And Sora Constantin is the funniest person ever. She's just so happy and giggly and it's great. While everyone was yelling at each other at church, she was just sitting in her chair eating a banana and smiling because she was happy. I love her. Then we went English contacting! Adica we went to the park and gave people cards with info about our English classes. At the end, Sora Vann really wanted to get rid of her last card. A guy rode by on a hoverboard. She held out her card and said, "Poftiți!" which means basically here take this flyer I'm handing you. So he took it and rode maybe another meter or two and then TOTALLY wiped out. He was fine and laughed about it but it was really funny. Then we went block-knocking! It was AWESOME. The second door we knocked on was a guy named Adrian. He started to tell us no, and then he sees our Books of Mormon and gets really excited and asks if he can have one. Apparently he'd been taking the lessons in Italy but when he came to Romania he lost track of the missionaries but he's been looking for a Book of Mormon in Romanian because all he has is Italian. He was so excited and started explaining to us all about Joseph Smith and the restoration and it was SO COOL. Everyone else slammed their door in our face but it was okay, we found the one!
LUNI 6 MARTIE
Today I slept in and it felt real good. Then we cleaned and went to the mall to go grocery shopping and shoe shopping because my boots broke this week. I was able to find a pair of boots in my size (which is a miracle because everywhere is already putting out summer shoes and getting rid of everything else, plus my feet are a humongo size 41 which doesn't even exist in a lot of stores) ANYWAY so this pair of boots was on sale for $25 and it was perfect. I had sushi for lunch. It was okay. Definitely not the best I've ever had by a lonnnnggg shot, but also not the worst. And now here I am emailing.
Sora Lucy Gleason
România/Moldova Mission
July 2016-January 2018
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