WEEK 34

SALT MINES

MARȚI 7 MARTIE
On Tuesday we had a meeting with a girl from English named Isabela. We went over some of the stuff she had missed in class, and then ended up talking about the church. She said she'd love to learn more and then set up another meeting herself! She's so cute. She's studying Korean (don't ask me why) and she's just adorable. Then we taught English. It was okay. 

MIERCURI 8 MARTIE
Interviews with President Ivory! Nothing mindblowing. We met with Teo! She's doing great. It was International Women's Day and we met her at Starbucks and my chocolate frappuccino (don't worry; no coffee) was upgraded a size for free. That was awesome. After Teo we went to see Laurentiu the book man and I GOT MY BOOKS! They're pretty. 

Then we went to see Sora Iusan. She lectured us about how gossip is bad and then proceeded to tell us all the gossip there ever was ever. Then we taught her the plan of salvation and she fed us chicken hearts. Oh Romania.

JOI 9 MARTIE
We went to see Erika and Isabela. They're doing great but poor little Isabela is sick right now :( I swear that girl is sick all the time. Then we had Subway for lunch. Then another English lesson. It went great. Then she asked us why we're here in Romania and we started talking about church. She said she doesn't believe in churches because there are too many of them. Sora Vann launched into a restoration lesson. It didn't go well at all. She basically told us that everything we believed was wrong. So that was cool. We still invited her to our activity that night though. But after that lesson Sora Vann and I just needed a break so we found a puzzle in the church and spent twenty mintutes putting it together just to find out it was missing six pieces. LAME. But then we had games night and it was great. Our English student came and had a lot of fun. 

VINERI 10 MARTIE
District meeting. 'Twas lame. We weekly planned and then we were gonna do a lot of stuff but everyone canceled on us. We visited Maria. We talked to her about baptism. She wants to get baptized! We just need to reteach all the lessons first and help her and her family feel prepared. 

SÂMBĂTĂ 11 MARTIE
English! Ugh. Then Herecleea! She's great but just not interested in the church right now. We had lunch and then Isabela (english) canceled on us. Then a security guy came to the church because we accidentally set off the alarm. That was fun. I had to explain that we were allowed to be there even though our names weren't on the paperwork in Romanian. Go me. Then we were going to go out to dinner with the other sisters and some of our friends but instead we came home and I threw up my lunch. We think it was the tomatoes because other than that, Sora Vann and I ate the same thing. Lame.

DUMINICĂ 12 MARTIE
I translated Relief Society for a member from America. It was fun. I haven't had to translate since Bacau. I think I've gotten better at it. Our appointments all canceled on us. Nothing else noteworthy happened.

LUNI 13 MARTIE
SALT MINES! We went with the other missionaries and Teo to the salt mines today and it was SO COOL.  

There's a lake at the bottom of the mine and you could rent paddle boats so duh, of course we did! It reminded everyone of the lake in Harry Potter six :)

 

ALSO, I completely forgot about this! We hitchhiked home from the salt mines. It was an adventure. Sora vann and Teo and I got in a car with two people and just rode back the 30 minutes into Cluj. Are we crazy? Yes, but it was fun and I got to listen to American music because they had the radio on. Whooooo-hoooooooo missions are an adventure.
(For anyone reading this, this is Lucy's mom posting her letter and yes, I have severely reprimanded her through email so hopefully she won't ever do it agian.)


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