Bună Bună!!!
Highlights:
- More homies showed up to English Class!!
- Officially started Taco Tuesdays here, we had all the boujeeness (even refried be-ans, a commodity here in Romania)
-District Activity Wednesday in Oradea!! (Just when we thought we were done with trains we got ✨️blessed✨️ with another) it was super fun though and we had district council in person, did some finding, got Shaorma and Gelato, so I'd definitely call it a success!!
-Carved pumpkins!!
-Met with Irina! Didn't go exactly as we hoped but meeting with her was good!
-A lady Sora Barnett started messaging on Facebook asked her to meet up. We went and she was like "oh do you all want to get a pizza?" Um...yes of course. She buys us pizza is literally the sweetest, then goes "hey my house is just right here can you come over and meet my husband and son?? And I have cookies for you?" Um yes... of course. She was of a different religion but super open and we ended up sharing a small spiritual thought and giving her a Book of Mormon!!! So cool!
-Met with the sweetest member, she told all about how she's going to be a temple worker!! So cool!
- Friday the Sibiu sisters had a layover in their trains so we got to have lunch with them!!
- On Saturday a long time friend of the missionaries asked if we could meet her. She bought us Mcflurries and we talked about our faith, I loved how we were able to focus on our similarities and not our differences!! She's awesome.
-We've been looking for a new church building!! Ours is too big, and too far away from everyone. Any prayers would be appreciated for us to find a new building!
Not-so-Highlights:
-Tried to play the piano at church. Played the opening hym and probably hit like 2 notes right. Despite all my practice and prelude music I played beforehand just fine. Needless to say I'm glad for the recordings on the piano so I didn't have to play any of the others. 😓
Funny:
-Tried to prank the Elders with plastic Halloween spiders this week. We had them everywhere, strung up on the doors, stuck to toilet seats, etc. The Elders barely got scared it was lowkey a fail. After we did it though we had to hurry to a lesson, but it was a Thursday and no one is ever at the church except for Sunday so we figured we could clean them up the next day. Well the next we go to meet our member at the church and guess whose there, our branch president. And the elders also told us he's not a fan of Halloween. Yeah the was super awkward. But he seemed to think it was funny when we told him it was for the elders.
Gând Spiritual:
I listened to a BYU Speech by Elder Neal A Maxwell this week called "Patience". I love this quote. It's long but so gas.
"Patience helps us to use, rather than to protest, these seeming flat periods of life, becoming filled with quiet wonder over the past and with anticipation for that which may lie ahead, instead of demeaning the particular flatness through which we may be passing at the time. We should savor even the seemingly ordinary times, for life cannot be made up all of kettledrums and crashing cymbals. There must be some flutes and violins. Living cannot be all crescendo; there must be some dynamic contrast."
I love this. It made me realize how much day to day stuff I don't take time to just enjoy. Like walking to our church. Not many people are around to talk to so we often walk fast and I just think about all the things that need to be done. But after listening to this, I took I moment to "savor" this "seemingly ordinary" time in my life. The walk isn't pretty by any means but I appreciated the cool morning air, the quiet stillness, even just the feeling of walking and stretching my legs. So amazing.
If your someone like me who struggles with patience, I highly suggest listening to this talk, if you can't find it hit me up and I'll send the link!!
Vă iubesc atât de mult!! O săptămâna bună!!!
Sora Hansen
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