friends, finding and miracles 🌞

Ok so I said last week was a favorite week of mine, this week may have almost beat it. Basically I'm loving life as a missionary. 

On Tuesday we had a bunch of basic start of the week things. But we still had some fun finding and English class! 

Wednesday we met some super cool people! One person we met was Livia who loved to talk with us and later told us how she knew God put us in her path. So tender. We also had the goofiest lesson. Our friend came and we were giving a church tour and she was speeding through it and would never look at us in the face haha. So it was so quick and I don't quite know what she looks like but she seems super cool haha. Then we tried some finding in a new different area. Had some sml meetings and that was about it. Super fun day. 

Thursday we had district council and then we heart attacked a member. But we didn't quite know what bloc she lived in so it took us a minute but we figured it out eventually haha. We also got kinda wrecked in streeting. People were so mean haha. But we eventually met someone nice who wants to come to church so it made our day. We also were supposed to have a lesson with this lady at her house and we brought a member with us since our member knew where she lived and we only knew the general area (we met her on the street) and so we go knock her door and she doesn't answer which was so sad because we had our cutie member with us. We later find out that we knocked the wrong door haha but now we know and we are going back soon. Then we took a bus to Cluj for an exchange! 

Friday I had an exchange with Sora Willis and it was so fun! We got to street a lot, ate good Greek food and saw one of my favorite members in Cluj! It was such a fun day. I loved it and I definitely realized that I served in Cluj during the ugliest part of the year haha fall is so gorgeous in Romania! 

Saturday we went back to Sibiu and went streeting! We met some super cool people! Definitely did not get as throttled as we did earlier in the week haha. So fun. We had games night and a lesson with Elena! We taught about Tithing and she said she knows she needs to get baptized so she will definitely pay tithing and it was so cute to see how much she wants to get baptized! 

Sunday was crazy!! One of my favorite days! When church was starting we had like 4 members there haha but a few minutes later we had some many friends walk in. They brought a bunch of their families to church too so we ended up with 8 friends at church!!! It was so amazing. The room was so full and it was so awesome. I also gave a talk that day and got a little emotional while giving it and talking about how much I love the romanian members, Sunday was a reminder that my time as a missionary is dwindling and talking to all these people about the joy of missionary work was quite a tender one for me. But so good. Some friends stayed for second hour and loved it! Our friend Livia from Wednesday came and said that it filled a gap she was feeling in her life so tender. Then we went out finding and found so many cool people! We met a guy from Tanzania and I'm convinced that I need to go there and visit now lol. But we were seriously blessed on Sunday and found so many cool people and set up a bunch of lessons. God really blessed us on Sunday. 

That is about my week!

I'll leave ya with a quick spiritual thought : 

I read a talk this week and it mentioned how the atonement is heavens antidote to obstacles and struggles of this world. The atonement has the power to fix anything in our lives. We shouldn't place any limits on the atonement of what it can do and who it covers because it's infinite. It is our antidote to all of life's struggles and it is there for our use. 

Love you all! 

Sami

A lot of exchanges in Cluj, so there were a lot of missionaries here

Member in Cluj, Laura

STL's

We carved pumpkins with a new member friend today

An Elder was shaving his head and needed it trimmed a little before he shaved it.