First of all.... Meet Sora Barrera!!!!!!
Sora Barrera is darling. She's 20 years old, and she was born in El Salvador. She moved to Maryland when she was 12, and just finished up her first year at BYU.
Training a brand new missionary has really put into perspective just how much I've adjusted to living here. For example, the other day, she asked me if I wanted ice in my glass... Ice. I FORGOT ABOUT ICE IN DRINKS. That was a weird moment. Of course then we had to have that disappointing talk about how we have no ice. And how she'll probably not have ice for another year and a half. Sorry girl.
But really, Sora Barerra is doing great. And her fluency in Spanish makes the language learning process go a lot smoother :)
So our week. On Tuesday, the day before transfers, Sora Bray and I taught the family of 13 out in Feldiora. The mother, Zica, agreed to a baptismal date of March 29th! We actually handed the family over to the elders now though so they are going to be taking care of them the rest of the way :)
Wednesday we went to Buc to go to the trainers meeting and pick up our new companions. Ahhh it was such a happy moment when they read off the trainers names and matched us to our new companions! Everyone was so happy and anxious.
Then we took our 3 and half hour train ride back to Brasov. Sora Barerra slept for most it :). She has been pretty jet lagged but she still keeps going! such a trooper!
On Thursday we went contacting, and we got stopped by two women who pulled out their Bibles and tried to correct us on somethings. For a few minutes I was a little worried as to where things would go and how they would go, but we managed to find some common ground in our beliefs. We actually got their phone number, and they agreed to meet with us and discuss more.... I think we'll be bringing our ward mission leader to this one though :) We also had another lesson with Adriana and her family. Unfortunately Adriana wasn't there so we just taught Ion and Beatris. It went well though!
Saturday we went out to Feldioara and planned on having a lesson with Elena on temples. However, when we got there, we learned that her daughter Maria was staying with her there now for a little while. Not even 2 minutes after we arrived, Maria picked up the Book of Mormon and looked at us and said "I know nothing about this Book. Tell me about it." We had a lesson on the restoration right then.
She has lots of questions, but she's very open. She even came to church on Sunday and told us how much she liked it. We just need to get her to pray about it now :)
I just want to say how amazing our recent convert Elena is. It's ;only been a couple weeks since her baptism, but already she's given us 3 new investigators. Not only that, but she comes to every lesson with us out in Feldioara. We love her so much.
So that's this week!
Speaking of the group in Feldioara, it's growing like crazy. In fact, they've asked that only one set of elders attend because there are not enough seats for all of them. 2 more Melchizedek priesthood holders, and then we can have a brand new branch! How cool is that?
If any of you having any tips from when you trained, or when you were being trained, that would be super awesome!
Thank you so much everything you do ! I love you all so much!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxo
Sora Ralls
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