Sora Sami Schofield Romania Bucharest Mission: In the MTC Vecii Vecilor...

Welcome back gamers (iykyk lol), another week come and gone!

So this week was another good one. However, I am getting more and more ready to leave and go to Romania. I feel like I've been here forever and we make jokes that we are never leaving this place and that we are going to be here forever. I'm grateful every day that Romanian isn't a 9 week language lol. But we leave in just over a week which is crazy, I know little Romanian but I'm still so ready to leave and just get to Romania. With the subject- vechii vechilor is a scriptural phrase in Romanian meaning "forever and ever", they don't really say it outside the scriptures but we love the phrase so we always say out of context lol, but basically I'll be in the mtc vecii vecilor, forever and ever.

This week was long but good!

Saturday was so fun, we had morning classes so we had a free evening and we went to the field to play some games which was so fun. A little sad we couldn't play overly competitive games because anyone who knows me knows I'm slightly competitive (only a little ;)) so that was lame but still overall a good time!

Sunday is always a highlight! We had church where I led the music, and only messed up slightly lol. We have a long personal study and good devotionals. During personal study I read in Jacob 6 about how we need to cleave to God like He is cleaving to us. How cool is it to think that God is already cleaving to us, we just have to reach out! We just have to reach out and choose Him and it won't be a far reach since He is already there waiting for us, how cool. We also sang one of the new hymns and we all missed our queue and couldn't sing it right, it was quite bad lol.

On Tuesday all the fsy kids came again and I was looking for my cousin Lucy but didn't see her, sad. But my comp and I make jokes that we feel like animals in the zoo, all the fsy kids stare because they are seeing actual missionaries. We always say how lucky they are to be getting to go out of the enclosure lol

The other days blend together but many many highlights!

Romanian is getting better day by day! My companion and I had to teach a lesson in full Romanian and it went ok. We just shared a scripture and bore our testimonies, it went ok and was short but we are definitely improving! Also on Wednesday we had to do limba post (no English) and it was hard but an improvement from last week!! Honestly though I'm ready to get to Romania and learn a bunch there lol

I've seen some friends from home which has been so fun! A little weird that elder Davis is leaving before me while getting here after me, fr never leaving this place! But so fun to see some friends!

On Wednesday we hit our one month as missionaries! One month ago we were at home starting mtc and now we are getting ready to go to romania, so so crazy! Only 17 more lol! We celebrated our one month by helping the new missionaries again lol. It is our third set of missionaries that have been here since we have and half of them leave before us, crazy. But helping them was so fun, I met the whole district of people going to Hungary and it was so cool to meet our mission neighbors! A year ago we would have been in the same mission and we all thought it was cool.

Overall, a really good week! Things get overwhelming and sometimes are hard but I know God is there to help and to pull me through! I really do love being a missionary! Please reach out to me, I'd love to hear from anybody! Also enjoy some photos and see more with the link!

Te iubesc şi Dumnezeu te iubeşte! (I love you and God loves you!)

- sora sam

Last little spiritual thought:

At a devotional we talked about the story of Peter going back to his normal life after Jesus died. Jesus visits Peter and asks him "Do you love me more than you love all this?" And that is the coolest thing ever to think about. Do we love Christ more than we love anything else? It really hit me in the missionary mindset, whenever I get homesick or think I'd rather be doing something else, I always think how I love God and Christ so much and I love them more than anything else I could be doing. I think it's a great thing for anyone to think about so invite you all to think about that!!

Photos!!

1: saturday at the field!

2: elder Davis and I!

3: the whole district

4: surorile (the sisters)

5&6: o lună! (one month mark on 7/24!)