January 6, 2014
Well hello family,
It's been another week... I
feel like this was a really fast week. Obviously it was New Years but it just
did not seem it. Something with the missing of the strip and the gigantic
fireworks where dad is worrying about the roof catching on fire. :) Haha oh good
times.
Sora Newell and I had a good
week. We continue to meet with Alina and this week we talked about keeping the
Sacrament Holy. She has a while for her baptismal date which is good because
she does need time. She hasn't come to church for a while and I understand why.
She lives so far away from Constanta and it costs so much to come and meet with
us. We are really hoping that she just moves to Constanta so that way all of
that will just come so much easier, but she is also waiting to see if she gets this
job in Dubai. Ughhh so frustrating? Any ideas on how to get her to come to
church? She did accept keeping the sabbath day holy but isn't really coming
yet... so we'll see.
Sora Newell and I did quite a
bit of block knocking. Prea mult. But that's okay we really need new
investigators and potentials so it was all worth it. We decided to go ahead and
do it on New Years Eve in the afternoon. We didn't want to disturb their
celebrations and we were hoping that everybody would be with their families and
they would be home. Well they were all home but we just saw a lot of people
peeking through their peek holes, whispering silently and waiting for us to
walk away. That was frustrating. We did go to this one block though and we are
pretty sure that this section hasn't been hit for a while so we go there and as
soon as we enter the block we are basically being yelled at. This one wasn't a
bad yelling he just told us to leave us alone and go up to the person that let
us in. Haha only that person didn't want to talk to us either. So we keep going
and come up to this door and this super nice lady comes out and does a survey.
She was so nice and when she told us she didn't want to know anymore we just
left it at that. Then her husband comes out and literally just screams at us.
Oh my heck. He needed to CALM DOWN. We left just so there wouldn't be as big of
a scene as it was already. We told him we were sorry and we didn't mean to
disturb anyone but he was not having it. So we left pretty quickly. That was
pretty hard. I feel like the Lord was just preparing some great people for us
to meet over in those blocks so we went to go try them again a few days later.
We celebrated New Years though by eating Pizza Hut and then I fell asleep I
didn't even make it to midnight!!!!!!!! HOW SAD IS THAT!!!!!! It was pretty
funny though I woke up at 6 yelling at Sora Newell saying that we couldn't miss
New Years. She informed me as I tried to wake her up out of bed that I slept
through it. Hahaha how sad. I'm still laughing about that. Luckily they were
still blowing up fireworks the next day so I could take some pretty cool
pictures :) Haha really they aren't that cool.
Anyways, we went block knocking
and we actually met pretty nice people. Some not so nice. But some were fairly
nice. There was this one guy who actually let us into his apartment and we
scheduled an appointment with him for this Thursday with the Elders. He was
going to make us lunch and everything. It was so cute though because he just
wanted to give us something. He tried to give us coffee and then wine and then
finally he figured out what he could give us Chocolate hahaha and oranges. It
was super nice though. Excited to see what happens on Thursday. Stay tuned.
We finally found about transfer
boards and I am staying here in Constanta. I am super happy because I get to be
here with Alina and the members here. They are changing me. AND I get to be
with one of my favorite companions ever SORA LETINU!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is my mini
missionary again. Oh my heck I literally was crying on the phone when President
called me to tell me that I was going to serve with her. Literally tears
pouring down my face. I just love her SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!
We had our last English class
and I am going to miss Sora Newell she does such a good job teaching English
and she really loves teaching it which is an extra bonus. We also had the
spiritual thought and so we decided to sing since that just pours in the spirit
and our students love us. We were planning on just doing it acapella but Elder Pischke
(think that's how you spell his name) was there for the day and he literally
just made up an accompaniment on the spot!!!! It was so cool and I could just
feel the spirit so strong. SO STRONG!!!! Love moments like that. Obviously the
English Students felt the spirit and it was too funny. There is a guy in our
English Class who is like 80 years old. Super cute old man and he comes up to
us to tell us it was beautiful holds Sora Newell's face and kisses her on the
forehead and then comes over to me and grabs my hands and kisses me on the
forehead. It was super sweet but the elders were just laughing hahaha. It was
really funny. We just said we got puped on the head for the rest of the day. It
was too funny. I'm still laughing about it!
I have decided to study change
since it is the new year, it's a new transfer, a new week, a new day, a new
opportunity. It has been so amazing. I am actually where the Sons of Mosiah are
preaching to the Lamanites and I love how they describe their conversion.
"And not one of them fell away." I hope and pray everyday that I am
as converted as the people of Ammon. They burried their weapons of war and
never looked back. I pray that I can lay down the weapons I hold still and lay
them down at the Saviors feet and continue to be his servant. That's what I
want to do. I want "My will to be swallowed up in the Father's will"
I hope that we can all do that. And so because I love this talk so much I am
attaching it. It is called Remember Lot's Wife. :) Remember Faith always points
to the future. :)
Love you all with all my heart!!!!!
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