CRAIOVA COOKIE CRAZINESS

 Bună Bună!! 

Highlights:

- Making a baking video with a spiritual thought!! Gonna drop soon!!

- For the baking video we made a ton of cookies, and it's been awesome, we've...

    -Shared them with our neighbors at the church (our church building is in like a shared commercial space) 

   -went cookie finding, basically tried handing them out in the park, it wasn't very successful... but a random foreigner trying to hand out baked goods in a park... idk if I would take any either

    -brought some when we visited some of our members this week, they were a hit!

    -and of course all of us missionaries here inhaled way more than we'd like to admit (and we're not even going to talk about the amount of cookie dough on top of that)

Anyway this is all to say everything didn't turn out how we liked but I glad we were still able to use them this week!!

-We helped out another one of our neighbors at the church. They have a bunch of kids from the countryside that come in every week, so we went to play games with them and help them learn a bit of English!! It was so fun!

-EXCHANGE with Sora Ballard!! She's an absolute legend. We had a great day and I really enjoyed learning from her!! We also were able to have a fire language study and get some of our questions answered by one of her friends.

-Had a bishop visiting from the UK. He wanted to talk with us, and then later that day had us meet with him and his nonmember friend for înghețată!! Let's go!!! 

-Visited our Branch President!! Him and His wife live outside of Craiova so it was a bit of a trek to get out there, but it was so fun!! They are some of the funniest people I've met, and so we had a blast talking with them, having a meal, and discussing a few general conference talks! The meal was fire too!! We had sarmale (first homemade batch I've had), tons of bread, apple pastries, and fresh goat cheese from their goats!! 

-We helped some Elders in Germany teach a translation lesson. So basically we just get on the call and translate everything that they want to teach into Romanian and then translate whatever their Romanian friend says into English. It was so cool!! Sometimes I forget I like actually know some Romanian haha.

Not-So-Highlights:

-No one wanting our cookies at the park 

-Seeing like every bug to ever exist on the pieces of metal and wood we were helping move!! With the star of the show being a few spiders as big as the palm of my hand.(Many prayers were said)

-Crazy trains and not knowing if we would able to get cash to get tickets back home

-THE HEAT🔥 

Gând Spiritual:

"Please remember tomorrow, and all the days after that, that the Lord blesses those who want to improve, who accept the need for commandments and try to keep them, who cherish Christlike virtues and strive to the best of their ability to acquire them. If you stumble in that pursuit, so does everyone; the Savior is there to help you keep going... Soon enough you will have the success you seek."

- Elder Holland (April 2016) 

I listened to this talk this week and it was literally just what I needed. I feel like I set always these goals and somehow week after week I don't measure up. But I love how he points out in this talk that we literally get credit for just for trying. So as you may feel like me and just don't feel like you're achieving what you'd like to, know that as long as you keep trying, it. is. enough. 

Vă iubesc atât de mult!!

Sora Hansen