LUNI 10 APRILIE
So last Monday after we finished emailing, we went grocery shopping and had lunch and then went to the beach. It was pretty chill.
MARTI 11 APRILIE
Tuesday we went to the church in the morning to plan English and then headed to a donut shop to do language study. I think I said this last week, but this donut shop has really good music so I enjoy that quite a bit.
Then we headed home for lunch and companion study. Then to our million-year-old member, Sora Nitica! I swear she's a million. Anyway so her and her son who's also probably a million had a friend over who had driven them to church on Sunday. We were like hey, cool, free lesson whoohoo. Not really, but he did sit in on our lesson with Sora Nitica. We read a chapter in Alma and talked about it and somehow we got onto the topic of service, so I shared that one verse in Mosiah and then asked Ionut (nonmember friend) if he had a Book of Mormon and he went on this RANT about how we don't need a book to teach us how to live and how he's reached a level above books and he doesn't even need the Bible anymore because all you need is love and how maybe someday I'd be able to reach that level too but until then I should be grateful for my parents who do everything for me and then he starts ranting about how sometimes he wishes he was a woman so that he could spend more time with his children or something like that. It was... interesting. Sora Nitica thought it was funny. Then we had English. We taught about some of the differences between American english and British english. Did you know that they call a diaper a nappy? How weird. No one showed up for advanced English, which was really disappointing because we had planned a bomb lesson of analyzing song lyrics. What a shame.
MIERCURI 12 APRILIE
We went to the mall and did some companionship study while we waited for a friend to get there. She never actually showed up and hasn't answered our calls/texts since. That's sad. Then since we slacked this morning and didn't set a backup plan because we were SO SURE that we weren't going to get bunged, we were like, okay, now what do we do? So we went mall contacting. Which ended up just me buying a birthday present for my dear friend Maria in Cluj who turned 18 on Thursday. She doesn't have it yet so I'm not going to say what it is in case she reads my blog. Hi Maria 😘😘 Anyway, so after that we had lunch and then met with a girl named Ana. She's super great except our meeting was way awkward. Ah. Then we limba studied and then we did splits with some members. Sora Castaneda went to visit Zenaida and I stayed and taught seminary via the internet with Mariana. It was a ton of fun. I got to talk to Elder Perrett for like five seconds because a member in his city was a student. He's great. I miss him. Then me and Mariana and Sora Castaneda went to visit a less active. Her cat got really attached to me and sat on my lap the whole time we were there and then wouldn't let me leave. 'Twas great.
JOI 13 APRILIE
We went to check if Sora Castaneda's visa was done yet. It is, but it's still in Bucharest. They said come back next week. Then we went to see Sora Rosu. If you don't remember, she's the one with Alzheimer's. She's really sweet even if she asks the same questions fifty times in a row. Then we weekly planned. Then we had to be at the church because the district president had a package being delivered so we went to the church but surprise surprise the delivery guy was an hour late. We language studied. I fell asleep on the couch. It was glorious. Then we finished weekly planning and that was about it.
VINERI 14 APRILIE
No district meeting today because the elders had conference on Thursday so it was cancelled. We met with a recent convert Mihaela and talked about keeping the Sabbath day holy. It was great... until she invited us out for lunch on a Sunday. We were like uhhhh, okay, let's back up a little bit. Then we went to lunch and then rushed back to the church because we had interviews with the President at 2. We had to teach him the restoration lesson in five minutes in Romanian. He said it was the best he'd seen so far :'), then interviews. It went well. Then we had to rush home to meet with our landlord because our gas and hot water randomly stopped working Thursday night in the middle of making dinner. That sucked. But anyway he fixed it and we were all good. Games night. It was good. Lacra came and no one else but it was still fun. SAMBATA 15 APRILIE
Oh my goodness, this was a good day. SO! We went to a BASEBALL GAME. I didn't think that sport existed in Romania but it does. It was on the US Military base (idk what kinda military but something) against Romania's national team. We went with Lacra and the elders. A 12 year old boy sang the national anthems and he actually killed it. First the Romanian one, and then he started the star spangled banner and instantly Farnsworth and Hansen and I stand and salute the flag and Lacra and my companion (from Mexico) think we're ridiculous but no, #merica.
The Romanian team really beat up on us. It was horrible. BUT, they played Sweet Caroline and Elder Hansen and I both sang along (he's also a Red Sox fan how great is that?) ((also he's from Afton and he said he knows Shaun and Amber. Can someone look into that please? I don't have their email addresses.)) Anyway so it was just a great day. Then we went to KFC. Sora and I had an appointment there at 2 and the elders decided that they wanted chicken so they came with us. We got bunged. It sucked. It was good that the elders came with us though because then we were going to see a member with them that we'd never been to see before but they had, so they knew how to get there. She fed us SO MUCH FOOD and Elder Hansen was a butt and refused to eat any of it. Seriously it was actually pretty good. He was just being lame.
Then after that we ran to the store to buy something to bring to church for the Easter potluck, and then went home for language study.
DUMINICA 16 APRILIE
Hristos a-nviat! That means Christ resurrected, and it's their version of He Is Risen. It's also how they say Happy Easter, and then you're supposed to reply with "Adevarat, a inviat!" which means True, he resurrected. It's a cool little tradition. Church was just one hour, and then there was a branch activity with food and stuff. Another cool Easter tradition here is their eggs. So most of them are red, and then they play a game with them. Two people have an egg, and then they say Hristos anviat and the other one says adevarat a inviat and then they smash the eggs together and whoevers' doesn't crack, wins. It's fun. I lost. After church we came home and had lunch and then I fell asleep.... and then so did sora.... and then we accidentally napped for two and a half hours... we woke up when the STLs called and were like HEYY WHAT HAVE YOU GUYS DONE TODAY? and we were like uhhh..... oops. Then we went to see Zenaida. She fed us SO MUCH FOOD and most of it was good but some of it wasn't. The sarmale was great. The chicken was not. The rahat was not. Fun fact about rahat. it means Turkish delight, but it also means bullcrap, and that's about what it tastes like too. Then after Zenaida we language studied and I finally finished unpacking.
Now it's Monday and it's raining and it's suuuper windy and about 98% humidity... joy. So we just stayed inside all day. Around 7 the STLs are coming in for exchanges tomorrow, and then on Wednesday and Thursday we have a conference with all the sisters in the mission down in Bucuresti. Should be fun. Happy Easter!
Sora Lucy Gleason
România/Moldova Mission
July 2016-January 2018
p.s. My birthday is on Wednesday for everyone that forgot! 😂😊😏
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