Sora Sami Schofield Romania Bucharest Mission: Dr Pepper Heals The Soul

Hey again! I feel like it was just p-day so this is crazy lol, but I had another good week!

This week was kinda crazy, started off with both my comp and I feeling sick and still having to learn romanian and speak it while not feeling great. But it's all good because we got better and were able to learn a little more in class. Romanian is still very very rough but it's coming. We had to do limba post (language fast) on Wednesday, which means no English, so me and my comp were very silent and spoke very broken romanian haha. But in class we are learning some weird sentence forms and it is confusing but I am kinda getting it, hopefully it keeps coming!

But a few highlights from the week! :

Devotionals! Always a highlight. This week on Tuesday we had a devotional from a member of the 70 and his wife and it was so good. He talked about how we are God's missionaries and it was so cool to hear. His wife mentioned being bold in our mission and our testimony which was great to hear because it's the same advice my brother gave me about a mission, so I guess I gotta be bold and just get out there and do it! After devotionals we always review as a district and it might be my favorite part. We all pick up on and say different things that I needed to hear and it's so cool, for sure a highlight.

Moving in new missionaries! On Wednesday we got to help move in new missionaries and it was so fun. There are over 800 and it is the biggest intake of missionaries in the longest time, it is crazy and packed. We helped welcome them, get them out of the car and started onto orientation. It was sad seeing all them leave their families but so cool to know that all these missionaries have so much faith to leave and love the Gospel so much that they are willing to do it. So so amazing. It was fun to help them move it and to get out of class lol

I also got a huge snack package! Shout out to my grandma for sending us a big snack box. It is much appreciated. I've been loving having the Dr. Pepper and have repeatedly said "Dr. Pepper heals the soul", very nice to have it again haha

We got to play ninja in class and it actually made learning romanian so fun lol

I saw Sophie! My cousin was at fsy and got to tour the MTC and I was able to find her! It was so nice and fun to see some family!!

All the girls switched outfits on Wednesday and it was so fun! Fun to wear different clothes lol

Also found out the song Dragostea din tei is romanian!! Idk how I didn't know this. If you don't think you know this song, look it up and listen, everyone for sure knows it and it's all in romanian so we listened to it in class, so fun

This week was so hard but so good. Romanian is killing me and sometimes I think I'll never learn or be as good as my district (they are fr goated at it) but I know that where I fall short, Heavenly Father and Jesus fill in the rest! A note I wrote in my Book of Mormon this week was next to 2 Nephi 33:1 where Nephi says that he can't speak or write well but that God still put the message into the people's hearts. I know that when I fall short and am not enough God will provide the rest and carry me through and put a message into people's hearts- even through my bad romanian.

However -- prayers that I learn romanian are always appreciated because I would really like to improve lol. My comp and I learned a phrase this week "ar putea fi mai rău" meaning: it could be worse, always saying it to remind ourselves it could be worse, like at least we are learning a language with an alphabet lol

I'm loving it here, but I am counting down the days. We leave in just over 2 weeks and are finishing our 4 week as missionaries which is so so crazy. We are all stoked to get to romania and we ask our teachers so many questions because we really want to get there, we are stoked! We'll get there in just over 2 weeks and it is so crazy! Can't wait! But a little sad about leaving the district and not being with my comp. I love my district and my comp, God blessed me with the best.

Just a reminder that God and Jesus love you! As it says in Mormon 1:15 "I was visited of the Lord and tasted and knew of the goodness of Jesus.", search for and learn of the goodness of Jesus, it is amazing!!! I have so many more spiritual thoughts so email me if you want to hear more or just email just because, I'd love to hear from everyone!!

Enjoy some pictures from this week and of course click the link my mom sent to see all of them!

cu dragoste,

sora schofield

pictures!:

1: My companion

2:sharing clothes with the girls in my district!

3: Dr pepper (thanks grandma)

4: me and sophs!

5: the district

6: sami sleeps (sora edition)