Buggin

Bună Bună!! 

Highlights:

-Prânz with Sora Lidia!!! She made this bomb potato and egg casserole, sausages, and apple pie. And as per usual we practically rolled out of there because she filled us up so much

- English Class was bopping. We always end the class with a spiritual thought and this week's actually sparked a full on discussion!! It was lit!

-Looked at a possible church location with Sora Mogoş. The location was cool but way too big for us. We then walked through center with Sora Mogoș and it was super fun!

-Zone Conference!!! Got edified, pumped up, felt the spirit, ate good, and got lit with the Homies!! It was a good time for sure. 

- We had to run into a store real fast to get a few things we needed and as we were checking out the cashier looks at my tag and goes "oh hey I know you guys. I've been to your church before" I then asked her what she thought about it, sad she said she really liked it! And then she said she really likes our church because of our views on premortal life. 😱 She said she would love to go to church again but is waiting on her driver's license so she can drive there. But we got her number and have been talking to her ever since!! She also told us she had a nice feeling and had to talk to us. We testified that was the Holy Ghost and how God communicates with us. She said she knew we would say that and agreed 😊

-Saturday was super rainy but we had planned in the evening to go streeting. Romanians basically like water as much as the Wicked Witch of the West, so streeting in the rain is never a safe bet. But we still felt good about it so we went anyway. There were very few people on the street but we ended up stopping Sorin. He said he's religious but isn't with a specific church. The last one he went to said he had to baptize his baby, or leave. But He's a dad to 6 kids and just expressed how much he wants to make sure he teaches them all about God. He was super excited and wanted to come to church, but for personal reasons wasn't able to make it. But... he said next week for sure!!!

-We have officially been keeping out goal of 1 mcflurry comp study (at least) a week! Let's go!!!

-Sunday we had a lesson with our cute friend Mariana who is going through a hard time right now!! Any prayers sent her way would be much appreciated! She wants desperately to go to church but she can't leave the house for another 4 weeks!!

Not-so-Highlights:

-BED BUGS ROUND 2!!! Sleeper trains I swear. Also why do bed bugs have to be a thing??? I'm going to have to have a long talk with Heavenly Father about it one day. I will say this time however we didn't take any home, we only just got EATEN ALIVE when we slept in the train. We have to take another this week 🤦‍♀️ I'm not ready. 

Funny:

-Alright I might be the worst. But at least it's a little funny ok... so we are at our meal with Sora Lidia and she tells us to eat everything we can cause she made all the food for us. She did however say that if we were going to be sick, don't over do it. But she continues to load our plates. One Elder is still in training and he's just looking at his plate with wide eyes, probably contemplating whether he could eat one more bite. Well he couldn't understand our member... and I thought I would be funny... so I told him that the member said we had to eat everything (truth) and then I said that she would probably be offended if he didn't (absolute lie) haha. Then his companion heard me and played along too. So this Elder shoveled in more and more food before he did finally call it quits and to which we informed him that it is OK and she doesn't care. Yeah writing this I do in fact realize I am the worst. But it was hilarious I promise you that.

Gând Spiritual:

Our Mission President shared these scriptures from Come follow me this week:

Hebrews 10:35-36

35) Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 

36) For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

I love this verse because it's a good reminder for us to have patience and to not lose the confidence we have in the Lord by forgetting what he has already done for us. 

At first glance that may seem like all that's there: a reminder, a warning, or a command. 

But there is a powerful statement of truth in here. 

"Cast not away"

Casting means that we have to consciously make the choice to let go. It doesn't say "defend" your confidence, because the only person who can take it away is you. And this gives me hope. Satan is real. He's out here trying to trip all of us up. He can try with all his might to rip away our confidence in the Lord, (and he does, and does a pretty good job) but we are the only ones that have power to throw it away or keep it close. 

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Sora Hansen