Sora Sami Schofield Romania Bucharest Mission: rain and trains...

Bună tuturor! This week was good!

Monday we were able to see our friend alina and she got a blessing! She is so ready for her baptism later this month!

Tuesday we taught english and it was one kids birthday so we celebrated! La mulți ani! We also found some cool new friends!

On wednesday we went to 2 members houses! We ate lunch with Sora Dancu and heard about her conversion story and then visited our new-ish member Diana and retaught her baptismal covenants. It was super fun. Then we got on a train to go to București for an exchange but we got blessed with first class tickets and also had some sml meetings on the train

Thursday I was on an exchange with Sora Droubay! We were comps at the beginning of our missions and it was so fun to be together again when we can actually speak the language and do a little better missionary work haha. We taught our friend Alina over the phone, went finding and helped figure out some future plans hahah. It was a blessed day and it was super rainy in buc! But it was so fun to be with her again.

Friday we took a train back to Sibiu and had a bunch of lessons set up but they mostly fell through. Except for one and it was super cool. We just were able to bare testimony about the power to change and not be stuck as we are (my favorite part of the atonement & favorite part to teach). Christ can change lives and it's amazing and beautiful to teach that! We also had some cool finding miracles! We ran into some old people who had been taught before and are interested in coming again! Right place. Right time.

Saturday we had an activity with our relief society where we painted book of mormons. It was fun! Definitely not artistically talented but it all turned out well and we even had a friend come! Out friend victoria is awesome and travels so far to come to all the things. She's so cool. We also taught Alina and she is so excited for baptism and she ready. It's so fun having a friend this far along! Kinda crazy to say that it's my first time my whole mission but it's worth the wait. We also had games night and I spent most of it playing soccer with a little kid and it was so fun but not in a dress, sandals and the wind haha.

Sunday Alina and Victoria both came to church! Relief society was so good and our friends were participating and everything. We went finding that night and met some super cool people. Best part was someone coming up to us and asking me if I was a missionary and to share something with him since he really needed a scripture or a pick me up. He was having a really hard time în life at the moment and he honestly just really needs the light of Christ. We shared some verses and our testimonies of the atonement and power to change and be forgiven and to be new. It was awesome. We also got bashed by somebody who told us she doesn't believe in church but was baptized by a random priest so she's chill. Super random honestly. Also walked into the sketchiest bloc of ALL TIME (trying to find an old friend) and got dumped on again by rain, so crazy! Crazy sketchy bloc and may or may not have been invited into a random guys apartment but we ran down the stairs and we were safe haha. A little sketch. But good.

This week was so good sorry the email was so bad! We are finding a lot, teaching a lot and have so many cool friends! I love this mission!

Quick little thought:

At the beginning of the week I was studying and honestly just had a lot în my head and was stressed and I read my patriarchal blessing again and it was so helpful and really calmed me down and helped me not be so stressed. It's so cool that God speaks to us directly and that He is continually speaking to us. I love sharing that message with the romanians, the fact that God is still speaking to us and directing us is so cool and gives so much purpose and meaning to life. God is there for you and He cared about what you care about!

Love you all!

Sami