You don't like your meat rare?? I do... just not my chicken

 Bună Bună!!

Highlights:

-An English Class friend gave me some Romanian chocolates (without rum!! That's rare) and asked where I was last class!! It was good to get to talk to her this week, I missed it last week!

-EPIC finding session on Wednesday!! Talked to a bunch of young people and we were able to get their Facebooks!!! Then we ended it off with some bubble tea!! What could be better than that? 

-Preșidentele Fowler and Sora Fowler came and visited Craiova!! We had interviews with them and then had lunch! They are both AMAZING!! I am so excited for all the good things they will do here for the people and the mission!!! 

-Visited our friend Salomea!! She lives like 20 minutes outside of the city so we can't visit her often, but she has such a strong testimony of God and always loves to hear what we have to say and our message. The miracle with this is that we were actually able to get ubers back and forth from her house. Because the drivers can pick and choose who they take, we weren't guaranteed to have anyone pick us up. But thankfully Heavenly Father is watching out for us because 1, we were able to get enough service to request a ride in the first place and 2 someone actually accepted the request to get us 20 minutes outside of the city basically in the middle of nowhere.

-Saturday Leonard's Branch Birthday Party!! Leonard is one of our awesome members here (if you look at my past pictures he's the one we always go walking with him and his dog) and it was his birthday this weekend!! So we had a branch barbecue!! Most of our branch was there! It was lit! And then because our games night was right after, they all stayed and played games. We got to talk to Sora Elena for a lot of it and it was cool to be able to show her photos of America haha.

-Sunday was actually Leonard's birthday so we had cake after church and talked for a bit!! 

Not-so-Highlights:

-It's still hotter than hot here, I don't think I've ever sweat so much in my life

-We taught primary for Adi, and he especially pushed my buttons this Sunday (I guess one day I finally learn this "patience thing", I wish that day would come sooner) 

-Had a lot of frustrating interactions with people who don't seem to grasp the concept that we're American, but can actually speak Romanian as well. 

Funny:

-So we had our barbecue for our branch, but here's the thing, Romanians lowkey are not super good at cooking food on a grill. Their method is to get a massive flame going, and then to put the grill right on top of it. Then they just throw on the meat cook it until it's charcoaled and call it good. So we were eating at the barbecue and Sorin really likes to give everyone at the table more portions of food until it's all gone. So I'm finishing up and he slaps down this massive piece of chicken on my plate, and tells me to eat it all. I go to cut into it, and it isn't working. I break two forks, Sora Reynolds has to go get me real silverware and it still takes some effort to cut it open. When I do, that's when I see the pinkest chicken I have ever seen in my life. There was no way I was eating it all. Luckily though I was sitting next to the meat tray so I cut like a fourth of it off and then snuck the rest back in the meat tray. As I was eating our Filipino member looks at my grossed out face and goes, oh you don't like it? That's how we cook all our steaks in the Philippines!! Rare! I was like yeah but this isn't steak it's chicken! We had a good laugh. I did end up having to eat that small fourth of it so let's pray that doesn't come back to haunt me this week.

-Sora Reynolds and made treats and the Branch members liked them a lot. Our branch president told us we're ready for marriage!! Let's go!!

Gând Spiritual:

1 Nephi 10:19

19) For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round

I love this statement. As we seek and look to find the Lord will help you recieve answers!! Just as in the days before Nephi, the days of Nephi, and the days after, we can all recieve revelation from our Father Heaven!! It's amazing!

I hope you all are doing well!

Vă iubesc!! 

Sora Hansen