August 13, 2013

Buna Buna!

I have just a short time to write today! We are going to look at some apartments that we might be moving into in just a little while.  And I am sorry I couldn't write yesterday! We've been pretty busy around here.  Yesterday President and Sora Hill were in town and we had interviews. Afterwards they took out our entire district to dinner. We went to a place called "Restaurant Ratio" It was so good. Since we're so close to Hungary, you can get a lot of Hungarian dishes here. This restaurant makes the BEST Goolash (Spelling?). 

So this week we had exchanges again with the coordinating sisters. Exchanges are so much fun. I went with Sora Stapely and she's from Mountain Green, Utah so pretty close to home!  We did a lot of contacting that day as well as have a lesson with a less active member. 

This week we also went to go visit a member of the branch who is in the hospital. She suffered what they think is a heat stroke. She is home now, so we're happy about that. The hospitals here are... so not what they're like in the US. There were 6 people with Sora Crista in her hospital room. They didn't even have curtain to separate them. The halls didn't have lights and the walls were starting to crumble down. There was no type of front desks or security and people can just walk in and out of where ever they want. I have never appreciated United States health care more than I do now.

As far as lessons go, the lesson we had with the less active member was our only one this week. We were dropped by a couple investigators this week so that's kind of sad. We still have Isabela but she is kind of taking a break from us right now while she tries to work some things out. We are still trying to keep in touch with her and hopefully she'll let us know when we can come back and talk to her and teach her more.

So that's the more gloomy part of the week, but HERE is the good stuff. Since we've had a little bit more time this week without our lessons, we've had more time to do contacting. We've been able to teach the first lesson multiple times in the park with people. And now we have a couple new investigators as well as a bunch of new potential investigators.

Just today we were contacting in a park, and we passed this lady who was eating on a park bench. I felt like we needed to talk to her so strongly. Sora DeRuvo suggested we wait until she's done eating before we talk to her because Romanians do not like it when you interrupt their eating. So we sat on  a bench were we could keep an eye on her ( my gosh, missionaries = Creeps sometimes!). But as soon as she finished we  nonchalantly walked passed her again and explained to her we're missionaries and that we'd like to share a message with her. At first she was stand offish but after a few minutes she invited us to sit down and talk with her. As we talked she became more and more open with us. She was all covered in dust and in work clothes and she explained to us that she was on a break from work. GET THIS- She works on old building to restore them! Okay  cool. She does restoration... Yes. Let's talk about a restoration! As we talked she listened so intently and when we gave her a Book of Mormon she was so happy and grateful. She asked us for our phone number and then she asked if we had missionaries in Bucharest because she lives there some of the time, then she asked for THEIR number too. We gave her ours and theirs and then we got hers. Solid. Botez. This is why we love contacting. There are so many people who are so ready to at least begin to understand this Gospel.

So that is this week!
Now we're off to look at apartments!

I love you all so much! Thank you for your prayers. You're in mine as well!

Love,
Sora Ralls

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