Bună Bună Tuturor!!!
This week literally flew by...
Highlights:
-Lit English class!! Mirela brought us food!! She's so sweet!! Had some more crazies there though, but it's all right just adds to the fun!
-I made cookies that actually turned out (ingredients here are a little weird)
-Did some service!! We are trying to find all the service we can, but Romanians in general just don't love to have people help them, so we haven't found anything. So we just decided to go the center of the city and clean up trash!! It was awesome! Had people come and talk to us!!
-Went tried a new finding activity, suggested by our STLs. You draw one of the lessons in chalk and then people can come up and ask about it!!! It was super cool! We did ours about the Book of Mormon and the Bible!! We had a drawing and little summaries of both books and then at the top we put "If you knew that another book of holy scripture written by prophets about Jesus Christ existed, would you read it? We had a few people come up to us to ask about it!! It was super cool, and a change of pace for sure!!
-Thursday, Friday and Saturday were a whirlwind that's for sure. So my comp Sora Reynolds had to go get her permis (visa), and she had to go back to her last area. Well her last area was Oradea!! It is one of the furthest out cities, right next to the Hungarian border (by train it's at least like 10 hours away). So we took a train to București and then a sleeper train to Oradea on Thursday afternoon/evening, and then we spent the day in Oradea Friday, and then Friday night took trains back to arrive back in Craiova Saturday afternoon. Craziness!!
-Oradea is absolutely stunning. And it was so fun because our STLs also happened to be doing an exchange in Oradea, so 6 sisters in one city=party time!! We ate way to many calories, walked a booty ton of miles, got Sister Reynolds permis, visited members, went to a little market, and went chalk finding again!! All in under 12 hours!! Successful day if you ask me.
Not-so-Highlights:
-Had someone literally come up to me just to roast my language skills, then proceeds to ask me to help her find a bathroom?? We love Romanians haha.
-Our trains home from Oradea were awful. We weren't able to get a night train, or a train straight there so we had three separate trains that we had to get on during the middle of the night. And then with the last one there were many technical difficulties so it didn't start going for 5 HOURS!! We were supposed to get back to Craiova at 11:00 but we hadn't even left the station at that time. We were literally dead and it wrecked all our Saturday plans... But the last train ride was absolutely stunning! We went through these canyons and it reminded me of Provo canyon at home!! I've definitely missed the mountains!
Funny:
-Well me + Sister Reynolds + staying up all night for trains makes for some quality laughs. We had random toothless Domnuls (old men) trying to make friends with us at 4 in the morning, hilarious sleeping positions and half asleep vlogs. It was a good trip all in all, do I think I could do it again though? Absolutely not.
Gând Spiritual:
My spiritual Thought today comes from the World Wide devotional for Young Adults this January. I heard that Sister Holland had passed away and I remembered listening to her talk in this devotional right before I started my mission. I decided to read through it again and it was amazing!!
I love this quote from Sister Holland:
"I plead with you to look upward. The eyes that look down on yours will be those of your loving Father in Heaven who can, and will, bestow upon you all those things you hope for in righteousness. You can’t get these blessings by chasing them. Please stop running to the point of exhaustion. Be quiet; be still. Simplify. Be meek and lowly of heart, and pray. I testify to you that miracles will come when we slow down, when we calm down, and when we kneel down."
Right now in my mission I feel like I am hectic just trying to run around and accomplish all things I want too. Though I feel I accomplish a lot of things, at the end of the day it just leaves me feeling, tired, exhausted and stressed about the things needing to be done tomorrow. Reading this talk helped me to realize that I still need to work just as hard (even harder sometimes) but that I need to stop complicating things and stop trying to rush through. I need to enjoy the moment, do all I can and let God handle the rest!
Thanks for tuning in to this week's rant from Sora Hansen haha.
Vă iubesc atât de mult!!!
Sora Hansen
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