July 14, 2014

Buna Buna!

Sorry I'm sending a late letter again! We just got out of a lesson with Carmen. Oh my gosh, let me tell you everyone, she is amazing.

We brought Cristina Mesco with us (also amazing) and Cristina just stayed there after we left because they're THAT good of friends already. Between Carmen, Adriana and Cristina, Brasov is gearing up for a VERY powerful relief society. All of them have very young families too.

So things are going well! 

Yesterday we had a really amazing lesson too. We drove out to Rotbov with the Bairs to meet with the Pavel family. They have a couple babies in the family  who were getting baptized in the Orthodox church the next day, so they had a lot of visitors staying with them. One of the visitors actually came in during the lesson and stayed for the whole thing. This visitor's name is Elena (of course). Well, Elena has muscular dystrophy and is one of the sweetest people you could ever meet.  She wanted to know more, so we just had a restoration lesson right then and there. She soaked it all up, accepted a Book of Mormon and promised to read and pray about it.

The only problem with all this is- She lives in Sighisoara which is about 100 and some kilometers away from us. The Bairs said they would love to take us out there any time to teach her, so hopefully we'll get permission to do that soon. She gave us her phone number, address and everything. We just need to talk to President about it all before we head out. Speaking of the Presient, we've heard President Ivory is just awesome. We haven't met him personally yet , but everyone keeps talking about all the energy and drive he has. He also is making some pretty dramatic changes in how the mission is run. We'll be meeting him next week for Zone Training in Sibiu next Tuesday. Oh, and get this. He wants to go on a hike with our district on Wednesday. Cool huh? :)

So Sora Honey's criminal record came in this week! So we're off to Moldova for a few days.  We're leaving right after zone training. We've heard some pretty crazy stories about the Moldova over night trains... we're excited to experience it for ourselves. Aparently controllers come in at like 3 or 4 in the morning, wake you up and check your passports and information and sometimes will go though all your bags. Coooooool. :) Hopefully all goes well with her visa over there. The office elders made it sound like it will be pretty easy, so that's good. 

We've been talking with the Bairs about serve projects we can start doing over here, and specifically in Feldiora. Sora Bair is suggesting some kind of basic health classes we can teach at the chapel over there.  So hopefully we'll get rolling with that soon!

It's been yet another great week! And they keep getting greater.

I love you all so much! You're always in my prayers!

xoxoxoxoxxo

Sora Ralls