Week 49

Goodbye Clark;  Hello Kyle

The trio is great. I love them both and it's awesome. We've been finding a ton of people and it's been a good week.

WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE
So on Wednesday we went to visit Sora Lature in the morning and helped her clean a bunch of stuff because it was her grandson's birthday and they were going to have a party. So we basically just did yard work in skirts because I didn't realize how intense this service thing would be. Oops. After Sora Lature, we ran to the church to do some companionship study before our lesson with Sora Preda BUT it turns out that Sora Preda cancelled on us but one of my comps just didn't understand her on the phone and thought she was confirming. Nope. Cancelling. So we just did some limba study instead and then went English contacting at the mall. We ended up in Sephora somehow and we were trying to sneakily contact the Sephora workers but it ended up with a worker who was NOT good at brows doing my eyebrows at the benefit brow bar. she messed up so bad and had to call the Benefit specialist over to fix my eyebrows. They still weren't looking great but they were better. We invited them both to English though and they both were super nice and said they'd come so there's that. 

THURSDAY 22 JUNE
Thursday! We visited Valerica and her bird pooped on Sora Lehr. It was hilarious. We had lunch at KFC and comp studied there and then went contacting. We ran into some Italian people and they were super nice but mostly I think they were just drunk. Then we language studied and then did some metrou contacting. We talked to some super dope people but most of them are just like "add me on facebook!" and we're like lol we can't, and then we never see them again because they don't have a phone number. #getthismissionsomeipadskyle

FRIDAY 23 JUNE
District meeting! The new district is super dope. It's me and my two companions, Sora Sterrett and Sora Lehr, and two elders from last transfer, Elder Green and Elder Meek, and then their companions Elder Boud and Elder Bird. I gotta say, I miss Elder Lemon and Elder Sewell and Sora Warwick. They were a ton of fun. After DM we went to lunch at 18 and it was super great, and then we did some park contacting! 

We met with a member named Mirela and Sora Lehr almost fell asleep, and then more contacting. We met this super awesome girl named Maria who seemed so great, she was asking us questions about the Book of Mormon and heaven and we basically taught her the first three lessons right there on a bench. Then she started talking about reincarnation and was basically missionarying us trying to convert us to reincarnation and told us that we needed to come to the light. Super interesting but also really frustrating because we thought we found someone golden but nope. But, oh my goodness, while we were talking to her, this guy rolls up on a bike and stops and looks at Sora Sterrett and said something we didn't really understand and so Maria translated for us and basically it was "i like you i want to get to know you can we talk?" but in like a weird Romanian saying or something and Sora Sterrett just looks at him and is like "sorry i have a boyfriend" and then he got all sad and left. Maybe you just had to be there, but it was hilarious. 

SATURDAY 24 JUNE
We weekly planned, got bunged, comp studied, and then met with a girl named Andreea that I met on the metrou on Tuesday. We got ice cream and then talked. she's leaving to England for the summer on Saturday :((( but she was super cool. Then we went to a baptism! The other branch here in Buc was having a baptism so we went. It was cool. 

SUNDAY 25 JUNE
Church was really good. The whole Ivory family spoke because they're leaving this week and our new mission president is getting here. I'm really going to miss them :(( After church we came home and had lunch and then headed to Piata Unirii for a branch contacting activity. It was a ton of fun. We had a question written on a whiteboard that said "if you could ask God one question, what would it be?"  

I stopped and talked to an orthodox priest (no picture, what a bummer) and he basically avoided the question and was just like "well God knows everything, I just think it's important to serve everyone around us because then we're serving God" and I was like okay that's not an answer but whatever. It was a good conversation though. Then we came home and Sora Sterrett packed because she's going on exchanges this week with another sister in the mission. So bye bye trio life! but just for this week so it's okay. We miss her though :(

MONDAY 26 JUNE
We grocery shopped and then came to email lol we haven't done much.

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