Sora Sami Schofield Romania Bucharest Mission: 10/10 Recommend saying "high heat cookage"

Bună ziuă preiteni!! (Hi friends!) Another week down at the mtc and officially hit one week at the actual mtc! Kinda crazy

Also going with the subject -- one elder in my district always says "low heat cookage" or "high heat cookage" - basically meaning that we did something lowkey good or high highkey good something, so we all hope to get a "high heat cookage" lol

Anyways all of the days, besides Sunday, kinda all blend together and we make jokes about how we are stuck in the hotel from Percy Jackson because time is so weird here. We've only been here for a week but also like our entire lives lol it's weird but fun. We make jokes that the days are just day, p-day, and Sunday, since it is all the same lol. So just go with the all messiness because I really don't remember what happened day to day.

Sunday was so good though! Best part was in a devotional with the mtc president he played part of a football game and it was so fun to watch, then he went onto say how it's the last football game we get to watch for 18-24 months, he really had to rub it in haha but watching football was actually so fun even for just 5 minutes lol

This week we started language classes!! We went full immersion in limba română (romanian) on monday and let's just say it's a little tough! Which means we have to sing a hymn in limba română and if you thought my english singing was bad -- wait until you hear me sing in romanian lol. But we are all getting the hang of it and I can even piece together some sentences and introduce myself so it's going along haha

But it's fr been so so good! The food is mid (exceedingly) but everything else is fantastic! I love it, I love my district and talking with them, meal times have been highlight because we get to sit and talk, we also just sit and talk and play games after class -- we all look forward to grass time after class haha

I really am loving it and love learning the Gospel! (Learning to love learning romanian lol)

Ok so this week was so spiritually amazing so here's a few thoughts:

My companion and I read the dedicatory prayer of romania and it was fantastic. It was given just 6 weeks after communism fell so they were still rebuilding a lot of the country. But the blessings that President Nelson promised them was amazing, they were blessings in all parts of their lives and and expression of help in rebuilding their country from the insurrection that occurred. It then went on to say how the blood of Israel runs deep in romania and the people just need to be found and taught. So basically there is a lot of people who are ready for the Gospel, we just need to find them, so so cool. Lastly it blesses the people who are going to go teach in the wonderful land (aka me and the other missionaries) so that was special to hear, it is the coolest prayer ever!

Sorry it's long again -- all of my emails probably will be haha but enjoy some photos and email me please! I'd love to hear from anyone, I can only respond on Fridays so don't feel bad if it takes a minute for me to get back to you!

But I love you all and so does Heavenly Father!

- sora schof