WEEK 44

I've been a missionary for ten months and I still feel like I know nothing! (lol)

TUESDAY 16 MAY
So first thing Tuesday morning we had our final interviews with President and Sora Ivory before they leave. Our companionship was supposed to be second or third, I don't remember, but  they were already behind schedule so we ended up in the office for 40 minutes helping Sora DeSpain (senior missionary) laminate stuff. I freaking love laminating. I need a laminating machine when I'm old. Anyway so my interviews went SUPER well. I love the Ivorys and I'm going to be really sad when they leave. After interviews, we went to Pizza Hut for lunch and our waiter was a total jerk but it was still good food. Then we went to visit a member named Valerica. We ended up talking about Donald Trump somehow and I said I just wanted to go live on the moon and she was like "but there's no gravity" and I was like "yeah I could just bounce everywhere it would be great" and this old lady just dies laughing for like straight five minutes. No joke. After Valerica we went to visit a friend who works at a dress shop and then we had to teach English. The trend continues: I hate teaching English. It's the worst part of my whole week lol. 

WEDNESDAY 17 MAY
We went district contacting on Wednesday. We were supposed to have whiteboards but  we just went park contacting instead. We were talking to some old lady who wanted our help finding the Red Cross  and somehow the conversation turned to why we're in Romania and what that awesome book is we're carrying. At this point a girl about our age sitting on a bench jumps up and is like TELL ME ABOUT THAT BOOK! And she was just super excited about it. The old lady got bored and left and we ended up talking to Claudia for about 15 minutes about the Book of Mormon and where it comes from and what it teaches about and she was really excited about it. We exchanged numbers and gave her a copy of the book and we're really excited to meet with her soon! After that, we bought a member some pizza and took it to her and taught her some English. Then we got bunged hardcore by two people and I don't remember what we did instead. 

THURSDAY 18 MAY
Zone conference! It was a really good one but I won't bore y'all with the details. After that we visited a couple who is preparing to go to the temple to get sealed in August. They're a few years older than us and they are just absolutely adorable. They fed us super good chicken and vegetables and the husband builds wooden models of temples and right now he's finishing up Salt Lake. That's their favorite temple. It was super pretty.

FRIDAY 19 MAY
Since we had zone conf, we didn't have district meeting. We just went district contacting again. It was a huge fail because a crazy guy started talking to us at the very beginning and then wouldn't leave us alone for the rest of the time we were there. So that was fun. Then we went to KFC for lunch and then we went to visit Bianca at work. She's adorable. Then we headed to a bookstore to language study. We ran into the other sisters there and after a while some of the elders showed up so district language study? It was fun. The elders had one of their investigators with them and he's super cool. He's Nigerian but he was born in Romania because his parents work for the embassy but he went to middle and high school in NYC and now he's just here to finish college. He's really cool. After that we had a member visit and she spent the whole time telling us about this company that sells vitamin supplements and how they're literally the best thing ever and made us promise to buy some when we're back in America.

SATURDAY 20 MAY
More English! Ugh. Then we got bunged again. Bummer. We went to visit the Bogdan family. The mom is a member but she doesn't come to church and the rest of the family isn't members. But the two kids, Mihaela (10) and Edi (6) really like the church and Mihaela just finished reading the Book of Mormon. We talked to the kids about Samuel the Lamanite and then they taught us some Romanian games :) imagine Down By The Banks but in Romanian. It was fun. 

SUNDAY 21 MAY
I translated Sacrament meeting and it was fun. I honestly love translating even though it's super nerve wracking. It's a blast. After church we had a conference call with all the missionaries in Bucuresti (there's like 20 of us or something IDK) because we had to work out shifts for an event coming up called BookFest. Basically it's like actually, I have no idea what it is except that we all have to work this event. So I think we're just going to be talking about the Book of Mormon and a tradeshow type thing but IDK. Anyway so conference call and then we went for a walk in the park with an investigator named Ane. She's suuuuper cute I really like her. 

MONDAY 22 MAY
Basically we cleaned and grocery shopped and I had KFC again and that's about it. Whoo-hooooo

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