Ok welcome back to the vlog (guess I should say blog but oh well) another exciting week of missionary work in Romania so let's get to it
Ok to start this week was kinda crazy, all transfer weeks are. Tuesday we had to get our area book ready (in Oradea) to be sent to the elders in the area so it was a bunch of contacting our friends to let them know that we were leaving and filling in the elders on our friends. Then we went and got lunch and walked around the city one last time and got our favorite snacks. Then the bad part of closing an area is having to close your apartment so we spent a long time cleaning it super well, luckily Sora Droubay and I love a certain Romanian song so we listened to it a bunch while cleaning. Then we left to the train station but we had to walk 30 minutes to the tram station with all of our bags which was humbling to say the least haha but then we got on a train and woke up in Bucharest!
Wednesday we spent the day in Bucharest, saw my cutie mission friends (I love them and just want to serve with all of them ), saw the Christmas market in Bucharest and then got on a sleeper train that night to go to Cluj!
Thursday and Friday was a bunch of figuring things out for the new transfer and getting settled. We had the cutest lesson with a new member who is 10 and just got baptized a few weeks ago, I love her and her family so much already. Sunday we had church and our branch is a bigger one! We have about 30 ish people in our branch and it is awesome. They are so amazing. It's so crazy how you can only know people a little bit but they already have such a big place in your heart, I love the people of Cluj already. I actually just love the Romanian people in general hahaha
Sunday night was crazy. We went to a friend's house for a lesson and we knew she was gonna feed us but we expected the food to be ready and we only planned on about an hour for this lesson and eating. We get there and she just starts making the food. All 3 courses. All very unsanitary. Long story short, we tried to teach her but she wasn't overly interested, she knows all about my family now, and we were there for 3.5 hours. You can't leave a Romanians house early without them feeling sad, when we tried to leave she got upset and wouldn't let us so 3.5 hours it was hahaha.
It was cool. I love this new city, I love missionary work, I love the Romanians and I love my Savior
Quick spiritual thought:
A lot of times on my mission I have had experiences that were exactly what I needed when I needed them. Like when I'm feeling homesick and I see something that reminds me of Nevada or my family and I'm like that's cool, cool that I saw that, what a coincidence. But really it's not a coincidence. God put that there for you to see. I was reading in a book the other day and it said something along of lines, "you know that feeling when you read a scripture that is exactly what you needed to hear and you feel as if God put it there for you in that moment and then you realize that He did". God puts little tender mercies and miracles into our lives everyday just for. That sign that looked like Nevada that made you happy, is there for you in that exact moment. I know God puts miracles into our lives and tender mercies into our days everyday if we look. Sometimes it is just an email from someone with exactly what you needed to hear, a text from a friend checking in when you need it or maybe just getting your toaster to work when it wasn't before and you really wanted toast for breakfast. God is there.
love you all,
Sami
1: new comp Sora Gubler
2: post 3.5 hour lesson
3: view out the window
4: Christmas market
5: after hauling our bags for 30 minutes
6: teaching our new member Amel
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