Hi yet again! I feel like I'm always writing an email so sorry if you feel like you are always getting them!
This week was good! Started off on Monday with a chill p-day, we went thrifting and shopping it was fun!
Then on Tuesday, all the normal things! Nothing too crazy! During weekly planning we set some pretty high goals for this transfer (crazy I'm already in my second transfer!), but me and sora Blanchard are gonna go crazy and become cracked missionaries.
Wednesday was so lit. We got up and went morning finding and talked to a lot of people. We got 1 or 2 numbers so that was awesome! It's sometimes hard when we go and talk to nearly 100 people and only get a few people who are only kinda interested. But I know we are trying our best, I know that's how it is here. But then we went to McDonald's to get soda (and I got fries ofc) and do our media work! It's way more fun this way lol. We then just did our studies and were planning lessons since we were set to have 4 today! Then all but 1 fell through #sad but that's ok because that 1 lesson was so amazing. We had a member come and it was amazing!! We went to find some inactive members and it was actually so good. We found 1 and she wanted to come back to church. Her husband is kinda rude and weird but she wants to come back which is amazing, I know the Gospel will help her! We also met 2 little girls who kept asking us for pamphlets and we gave them one and we are going to go back and give them some coloring books! It was such a good day.
Thursday we finally had my permis appointment! Which is just my visa appointment. We went and gave them all my info and got my picture taken for my card so that's lit, I'm almost legal in romania but then we just did some studies and some finding and packed for an exchange in Galați!
On Friday we went to Galați again for an exchange. But Friday was actually the hardest day of my mission so far. And it wasn't because I was homesick, overwhelmed, couldn't speak or any of the normal things. But we went to a little village to help clean up some flooding. Romania had some massive storm last week and some villages near the Danube River got wrecked. We went to help clean up a little. We went to this house of this lady and it made me want to cry. I almost cried the whole day. It was heartbreaking. This storm wrecked everyone's house and there is almost no help. This lady we were helping had her whole house flooded and it's full of mud. Everything was ruined. We did all we could to help clean it up with what we had. We had straw brooms and buckets. We really needed a power washer, shot vac, and the water mover things (the things we use to clean out the garage family). It was heartbreaking how this one storm changed her entire life and how it will never be the same. The water got so high and ruined everything. The water line was taller than the lady. It was so hard to see that and to see this village be so damaged and have practically no way to get back to where it was no matter how hard these people work. It was so hard and sad, I just realized all my problems that seem so big and hard to handle are really nothing compared to what these people are going through. It was really humbling. It was so sad that that was all we could do. This one storm changed things forever for them.
Saturday we went back to Ploiești! It was the 21st of September so naturally I had the earth, wind and fire song stuck in my head. It made me think of the Chuck episode where Big Mike claims he was in the band and his name was rain, hence the subject. Anyways it made me laugh when I thought of it haha.
Saturday was pretty lowkey, we had games night and we invited a 10 year old girl from a part member family to come and she came! It was awesome
Sunday was cool! We had some friends show up to church which was awesome! We have a few members who are awesome and talked to them. The members know how much the church can bless lives and it's amazing to see. We went streeting too and met a really funny awesome lady! We gave her a book of mormon but she told us she can't read so we are going to go over and read it with her and teach her to read a little haha. It's sad, a lot of women in romania can't read, they used to not teach their girls to read and sometimes gypsy families still don't. It's sad, native romanian families and gypsys still do things very old schooled (like not teaching their girls to read or having someone buy their daughter to be their wife) and it's hard to see.
But this lady seems awesome, I'm excited to meet with her.
Random stories:
- on Wednesday we got a response on facebook and someone wanted to learn more about the Book of mormon. We thought it was a lady (since it was a girls Facebook account) and she set the chat theme to a funny one with a bunch of kissy faces and when we called them it turns out it was her husband texting us and he was so weird so we got #catfished lol, he's the one who changed the chat theme....
-thinking of chuck all day on Saturday
-trying so hard to speak romanian with the little girl and she did not understand me and probably thinks I'm so stupid lol
-had a full convo with someone on the train by myself (my comp didn't talk during it) and the guy said my romanian was good!! So that was kinda lit, I actually had a conversation with someone and they complimented my romanian
-went to bran castle on p day!! Aka Dracula's castle!! It was actually so cool
Spiritual thought:
I was reading in Ether lately and I read about when the brother of Jared brought the stones to God. It was literally all he could think to do. He brought pebbles to God and hoped that God could help make something out of them. My comp and I talked about this and she talked about how we need to bring all our pebbles to God. Our efforts as missionaires and just in life are so small compared to what God can do. They are just pebbles, but if we bring everything and all our effort to God, He will do something great. I've really learned on my mission that we can't do anything without the help of God. I know that even if all we have is pebbles but we give Him all of our pebbles, He'll make something great out of it.
I love you all! I love my mission, love Romania and love my Savior💗
love sora schof
pictures per usual :)
1: ice cream run before exchanges
2: some after math of the flooding
3: me outside Bran
4: Bran castle!!
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